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Posted: Jul 18 2013 (20:50)
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END OF THE LINE FOR HISTORIC RAILWAY STATION- ROYAPURAM.
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South Asia's oldest surviving station may soon be history unless Railway historians and heritage activists can halt a demolition plan in its track.
The SR has asked civic officials in Chennai to remove the 157 yrs old Royapuram rly station from the list of heritage structures so that it can be razed....
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South Asia's oldest surviving station may soon be history unless Railway historians and heritage activists can halt a demolition plan in its track.
The SR has asked civic officials in Chennai to remove the 157 yrs old Royapuram rly station from the list of heritage structures so that it can be razed....
more...
The station occupies only 5 percent of these 72 acres. Surly it can be incorporated into the frame work of any development. The Chennai's heritage conservation committee, which has the power to remove Royapuram from the list of protected buildings is staffed with just Govt. bureaucrats and not historians or cultural experts or heritage experts. So their thinking is completely one dimensional.
Y to demolish?? they can build some pf's at RPM n make it as an alternate terminal.
Sad to take note these developments Jayaraj . I hope better sense prevails and IR finds a way to preserve heritage along with development .
MOVE TO SAVE ROYAPURAM RAILWAY STATION.
In a bid to preserve a heritage building an Advocate has aproached the Madras High Court to forbear the authorities from deleting the Royapuram railway station from the list of Heritage building in the phase I prepared by the Heritage Conservation, when the PIL filed by Advocate Sathia Chandran, came up for hearing before a division bench comprising Justices R.Banumathi and T.S.Sivagnanam, Advocate Raja Srinivasan took notice for CMDA.
In a bid to preserve a heritage building an Advocate has aproached the Madras High Court to forbear the authorities from deleting the Royapuram railway station from the list of Heritage building in the phase I prepared by the Heritage Conservation, when the PIL filed by Advocate Sathia Chandran, came up for hearing before a division bench comprising Justices R.Banumathi and T.S.Sivagnanam, Advocate Raja Srinivasan took notice for CMDA.