According to the AMC bosses, CRUTA foundation is slow in implementing new projects & has been displaying a clumsy attitude.
A decade-old association of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and Foundation for Conservation and Research of Urban Traditional Architecture (CRUTA) has come to an end. The AMC has discontinued association with the CRUTA Foundation run by Debashish Nayak to manage Heritage Walk in the walled city.
The AMC officials recently decided to cut off the contract with CRUTA foundation after its term ended. Against the proposed extension of two years, the AMC bosses preferred to give extension to CRUTA for only three months to manage the Heritage Walk. Meanwhile, the AMC seems to have roped in the Ahmedabad Heritage Foundation (AHF) - an initiative between the AMC and Gujarat Institute of Housing and Estate Developers (GIHED) to manage the Heritage Walk.
As part of the World Heritage Week, the AMC and CRUTA have been conducting this Heritage Walk in Ahmedabad since November 19, 1997.
“According to the AMC bosses, CRUTA foundation is too slow in implementing new projects and has been displaying a clumsy approach to managing the heritage walk. We were anyways on the look out for some other agency to organise the Heritage Walk. We have received two proposals. We will finalise things soon,” said a senior AMC official.
The AMC used to pay Rs1.5 lakh to the CRUTA foundation per annum. However, once the AMC ropes in the AHF, it will save a good amount of money as the AMC is also a partner in the organisation. But the AMC officials say Nayak would continue as an advisor to the AMC Heritage Cell.
The Heritage Walk begins from the picturesque Swaminarayan Mandir in Kalupur and ends at the most glorious architectural legacies - the Jumma Masjid. It covers numerous pols, havelis, ornamental facades, workplaces of artisans and number of magnificent Hindu and Jain temples.
The walk proceeds from Kavi Dalpatram Chowk, which housed the great 19th century Gujarati poet in Lambeshwar ni Pol, and moves on to the Calico Dome and the century-old Kala Ramji Mandir in the Haja Patel ni Pol.
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