GURUGRAM: His legend survived and flourished over centuries. But his statue had no such good fortune.
A 3-hour search on Friday morning led a TOI group to a corporation-run nursery the place the statue of Guru Dronacharya stood in a quiet nook, damaged and forgotten. It had lost its left palm and proper index finger, most likely all the way through a rash transferring operation from its unique home in a park that needed to be concretised to make means for an underpass at Rajiv Chowk at the Gurgaon-Delhi limited-access highway.
The TOI group started looking for the statue an afternoon ago after regulars at the Rajiv Chowk park came upon the statue of the 'guru' who lends his title to Gurugram long gone. No senior administration authentic had a clue. The lacking statue used to be embarrassing for town's administrators for the reason that government had simplest remaining year cited Gurgaon's connection with the Mahabharata teacher to formally exchange its title. This used to be also the only statue of Dronacharya in a public position in the town, and therefore, had symbolic significance.
At the MCG nursery the place the statue used to be discovered were also Dronacharya's students — statues of the five Pandavas that had stood round their teacher at the Rajiv Chowk park for no less than 30 years. The transferring process hadn't left them unscathed either; Arjuna's statue had lost maximum of its left arm. The nursery is solely behind state cabinet minister Rao Narbir Singh's house in Civil Lines.
The TOI group visited five government workplaces and an MCG warehouse earlier than ultimately discovering the statues. Senior the town planner Sudhir Chauhan's guess used to be the starting point of the quest — the MCG warehouse in Sector 39. "I have been working here for the past two years. I never saw anyone bring any statue to this warehouse," Vicky Kumar, the lone guard at the warehouse, mentioned on Friday morning. Chauhan had instructed TOI on Thursday he had a hunch that the statues could at the warehouse. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), which is development the underpass, also had no thought. Neither did other MCG officials.
After the warehouse, mayor Madhu Azad's place of job in Sector 34 used to be the next forestall. "I have seen the statues, but don't know where they are right now. We will find out and restore them with full respect," she mentioned. MCG leader engineer MR Sharma wasn't certain either. "The statues are very much in the city, but we need to locate them," he mentioned.
Deputy commissioner Vinay Pratap Singh, who heads the administration, gave the look of the correct man to ask. But he wasn't to be had at his place of job at the mini secretariat. The subsequent destination used to be Gawar construction's (the company making the underpass) web page place of job near Rajiv Chowk round 1.30pm. An authentic there put the TOI group involved with MCG manager Mahabir Sharma.
Sharma mentioned he knew the place the statues were. At the nursery, the five Pandavas' statues were discovered below a inexperienced shed complete Droancharya's used to be out in the open. "Around six months ago, construction work was going on at Rajiv Chowk. The construction agency called us to remove the statues. Around 15 workers from MCG had gone to remove them. They were very heavy. While doing so, Arjuna and Dronacharya's hands came off," Sharma mentioned. "I'm surprised senior officials don't know about them as the statues were kept in this nursery on their instruction," he added.
A 3-hour search on Friday morning led a TOI group to a corporation-run nursery the place the statue of Guru Dronacharya stood in a quiet nook, damaged and forgotten. It had lost its left palm and proper index finger, most likely all the way through a rash transferring operation from its unique home in a park that needed to be concretised to make means for an underpass at Rajiv Chowk at the Gurgaon-Delhi limited-access highway.
The TOI group started looking for the statue an afternoon ago after regulars at the Rajiv Chowk park came upon the statue of the 'guru' who lends his title to Gurugram long gone. No senior administration authentic had a clue. The lacking statue used to be embarrassing for town's administrators for the reason that government had simplest remaining year cited Gurgaon's connection with the Mahabharata teacher to formally exchange its title. This used to be also the only statue of Dronacharya in a public position in the town, and therefore, had symbolic significance.
At the MCG nursery the place the statue used to be discovered were also Dronacharya's students — statues of the five Pandavas that had stood round their teacher at the Rajiv Chowk park for no less than 30 years. The transferring process hadn't left them unscathed either; Arjuna's statue had lost maximum of its left arm. The nursery is solely behind state cabinet minister Rao Narbir Singh's house in Civil Lines.
The TOI group visited five government workplaces and an MCG warehouse earlier than ultimately discovering the statues. Senior the town planner Sudhir Chauhan's guess used to be the starting point of the quest — the MCG warehouse in Sector 39. "I have been working here for the past two years. I never saw anyone bring any statue to this warehouse," Vicky Kumar, the lone guard at the warehouse, mentioned on Friday morning. Chauhan had instructed TOI on Thursday he had a hunch that the statues could at the warehouse. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), which is development the underpass, also had no thought. Neither did other MCG officials.
After the warehouse, mayor Madhu Azad's place of job in Sector 34 used to be the next forestall. "I have seen the statues, but don't know where they are right now. We will find out and restore them with full respect," she mentioned. MCG leader engineer MR Sharma wasn't certain either. "The statues are very much in the city, but we need to locate them," he mentioned.
Deputy commissioner Vinay Pratap Singh, who heads the administration, gave the look of the correct man to ask. But he wasn't to be had at his place of job at the mini secretariat. The subsequent destination used to be Gawar construction's (the company making the underpass) web page place of job near Rajiv Chowk round 1.30pm. An authentic there put the TOI group involved with MCG manager Mahabir Sharma.
Sharma mentioned he knew the place the statues were. At the nursery, the five Pandavas' statues were discovered below a inexperienced shed complete Droancharya's used to be out in the open. "Around six months ago, construction work was going on at Rajiv Chowk. The construction agency called us to remove the statues. Around 15 workers from MCG had gone to remove them. They were very heavy. While doing so, Arjuna and Dronacharya's hands came off," Sharma mentioned. "I'm surprised senior officials don't know about them as the statues were kept in this nursery on their instruction," he added.
Guru Dronacharya statue found but without a palm
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