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‘Smriti Van’ is a museum built on the Bhujio hill near Bhuj town of Kutch district.
PM Modi will visit Kutch district on August 28. Here he will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of about a dozen projects including ‘Smriti Van’. ‘Smriti Van’ is a museum built on the Bhujio hill near Bhuj town in Kutch district as a tribute to over 13,000 people who died in the Gujarat earthquake on January 26, 2001. This museum was conceived by PM Modi when he was the Chief Minister of Gujarat. The ‘Smriti Van’ has been built in an area of 470 acres.
Name plates of those who died in the earthquake
Smriti Van Memorial Project spread over 470 acres has been built over Bhujio Dungar in Bhuj. There are eight blocks in the museum which have specific names and each block offers specific attractions to the visitors based on its name. The memorial will have the name plates of 12,932 victims who lost their lives during the earthquake. Apart from visiting Bhuj after the 2001 earthquake, the monument will also provide a glimpse into the rich Harappan civilization, seismology, heritage, culture and art of Gujarat through a control room and real-time emergency situations. Locally available basaltic rock has been used to build the walls of museums and its floors.
will inaugurate several projects
After this, PM will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of projects worth about Rs 4400 crore in Bhuj. It also includes the Kutch branch canal of the Sardar Sarovar Project. The total length of this canal is about 357 km. One part of the canal was inaugurated by the Prime Minister in 2017 and the rest is being inaugurated now. This canal will help in providing irrigation facility to Kutch and provide drinking water to all 948 villages and 10 towns of Kutch district.
PM Modi’s today’s schedule
Inauguration of Smritivan memorial at 10 am.
Public program at 11.00 am at Shyamji Krishna Varma University Ground.
Program at Gandhinagar Mahatma Mandir at 5.00 pm.
Departure for Delhi at 9 pm.