Vadodara: The ambitious Nyay Mandir city museum project that has been discussed since 2014 may eventually see some development. After representations by legislators and BJP office bearers from Vadodara, the state government has decided to give possession of the heritage building to the district collectorate.
All the five MLAs from the city and city unit BJP president Vijay Shah had met CM Vijay Rupani, deputy CM Nitin Patel and MoS (home) Pradipsinh Jadeja on Tuesday. The Nyay Mandir project was discussed along with the Vishwamitri plan.
Shah said that the Nyay Mandir project is an emotional issue for many in the city. “From traders’ bodies to citizen groups and heritage lovers – all want the city museum to come up. We can rope them all together and work on it,” he said.
Shah added that the law department officials were consulted at the time of the meeting itself. “The building is presently in the possession of the law department. It will be difficult to transfer it to the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) directly and hence it will be handed over to the district collectorate first,” said Shah. The VMC standing committee has been discussing the issue since 2014 and the administration was also authorized to take up the matter with the relevant department to get possession of the heritage building. However, there was little development even as various groups kept raising the issue time and again.