MUMBAI: Here's your chance to sit down and gaze as lifestyles in the fast paced city rushes past. The city administration is in the procedure of installing stone cubes around Flora Fountain at Hutatma Chowk where you'll park your self leisurely amid all the humdrum of lifestyles.
This is part of the second one phase of restoration work at Flora Fountain. The idea is to let visitors sit down around and take in the attractions of the monument that depicts the Roman goddess Flora. The civic frame plans to wrap up the work by means of May 1-observed as Maharashtra Day-and throw it open to the general public.
While water started flowing out of Flora Fountain as soon as again from January 24 this 12 months, work on landscaping of the 10,000-sq.toes plaza around it is still to be completed. Civic officers have claimed that the restoration work is being accomplished alongside the traces of London's Trafalgar Square where visitors can sit down around leisurely.
The work was once to start with slated to end by means of March 30, stated a civic professional. "But there have been some delays in procuring material which was to be procured for the landscaping. So, we have granted an extension," stated this professional. "As a part of the landscaping work, we are working on things like using basalt stone around the fountain, placing stone cubes for people to sit on and also put up plaques giving details of the fountain and the tram tracks that were found around the sculpture during excavation work."
The idea behind stone cubes is to pre-empt visitors from lying down there.
Information about trams can also be publish. "Plaques will be put up around so that visitors get a look of the statue's history," stated the professional.
This is part of the second one phase of restoration work at Flora Fountain. The idea is to let visitors sit down around and take in the attractions of the monument that depicts the Roman goddess Flora. The civic frame plans to wrap up the work by means of May 1-observed as Maharashtra Day-and throw it open to the general public.
While water started flowing out of Flora Fountain as soon as again from January 24 this 12 months, work on landscaping of the 10,000-sq.toes plaza around it is still to be completed. Civic officers have claimed that the restoration work is being accomplished alongside the traces of London's Trafalgar Square where visitors can sit down around leisurely.
The work was once to start with slated to end by means of March 30, stated a civic professional. "But there have been some delays in procuring material which was to be procured for the landscaping. So, we have granted an extension," stated this professional. "As a part of the landscaping work, we are working on things like using basalt stone around the fountain, placing stone cubes for people to sit on and also put up plaques giving details of the fountain and the tram tracks that were found around the sculpture during excavation work."
The idea behind stone cubes is to pre-empt visitors from lying down there.
Information about trams can also be publish. "Plaques will be put up around so that visitors get a look of the statue's history," stated the professional.
Redone Fountain to have stone cubes to sit & gaze
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