Mumbai: BMC Begins Work On Restoration Of Marine Drive s Parsi Gate freepressjournal.in - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from freepressjournal.in Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Coastal Rd inauguration today, traffic (only cars, buses) allowed from Tues. Only the southbound arm will open (Bindu Madhav Thackeray Chowk in Worli to Marine Drive). No tolls have been imposed as of now. The road’s inauguration has been postponed twice. The inauguration will be done at 10am by CM Eknath Shinde and Dy CMs Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar. Motorists will be able to use the road from Tuesday, 8am onwards.
Architect and heritage enthusiast Rahul Chemburkar of Vaastu Vidhaan, the firm appointed as consultants on the MCRP, speaks to Omkar Gokhale on how the planning authorities and other stakeholders should approach such restoration and conservation.
Reopening the Gate is bound to cheer up the Parsis, who would throng the Gate styled in ancient Parsi architecture of two five-metre stone pillars to worship their Water Goddess Ava Yazad, until the structure was demolished in April 2021.