Car Street to be developed into Heritage Walk road: MLA Vedavyas Kamath
Team Udayavani, Dec 18, 2019, 10:20 AM IST
Mangaluru: With a view to tap the heritage value of temples on Car Street, Mangaluru Smart City Ltd. (MSCL) has planned to develop the 1.1-km stretch the road from Karnad Sadashiva Rao Road to Kulur Ferry Road Junction, near Srinivas Theatre, as a Heritage Walk Road.
Addressing presspersons with this regard Mangaluru City South MLA D. Vedavyas Kamath said that the Heritage Walk Road would encompass many temples, including Sharavu Sri Maha Ganapathi Temple, Lakshmi Narasimha Mutt, Umamaheshwara Temple, Venkataramana Temple and Sri Samsthana Gokarna Parthagali Mutt.
He further informed that the Rs 14.59 crore is planned to be spent on the project and the project planners have submitted the draft detailed project report on December 3. The final draft has been submitted to MSCL and the special purpose vehicle set up to implement smart city projects for the city.
The project involves setting up of footpaths on the entire stretch, installing decorative street lights, giving the temple facade a face-lift to highlight their heritage value, MLA said.
Kamath also informed that during Monday’s Smart City project review meeting he spoke to MSCL Chairman and District Secretary V. Ponnuraj and suggested him to extend the scope of the Heritage Walk stretch to Lower Car Street as well.
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