Varanasi:

Here’s good news on Kabir Jayanti. Decks have been cleared for an array of projects in the name of Kabir, the great poet-saint. The detailed project report (DPR) of a new museum complex and hut (Kabir ki jhopdi) at Kabirchaura Mutt, Moolgadi was submitted to the union ministry of culture this year. The remaining projects are currently in the pipeline.

The ministry of culture had sanctioned Rs 5 lakh for preparation of DPR in August last year. However, the ministry asked for some changes in the DPR and wrote to the mahanth of Kabirmutt, Moolgadi, on the same.

The revised DPR was submitted in January this year and the proposed cost of the project is Rs 4.65 crore, mahant at Kabirchaura mutt, Sant Vivekdas Acharya, said on Kabir Jayanti on Monday.

As per the DPR, a hut and a three-storeyed museum building are expected to come up in mutt premises.

The mahant said, “The rooms of the hut will be furnished with Kabir’s belongings so that devotees and tourists are better acquainted with the way he lived. Notably, the proposed hut is to come up at the exact spot where the poet’s hut was some 500 years ago.”

” A museum complex will be set up adjacent to the modular hut to store and preserve the belongings of Kabir and his successors and contemporary saints”, added Das.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News Home> City> Varanasi / TNN / July 04th, 2016