Amritsar: The Amritsar municipal corporation (MC) is sprucing up the vicinity of Durgiana Temple with lamp posts and fountains as part of its project to enhance the city’s new heritage street, which is being developed on the lines of Heritage Street in the vicinity of Golden Temple, said Amritsar mayor Karamjit Singh Rintu on Tuesday.
He said the MC would spend around Rs 5.5 crore on sprucing up areas around Durgiana Temple and the project would be completed soon.
“Almost 70% work, which included widening of streets and laying of cobbled stones, has been done and rest would be finished in near future,” said the mayor.
Former cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu had in 2018 announced the heritage street around Durgiana Temple. The project has, however, already missed a deadline.
Rintu said development work included removal of hanging power cables, streamlining billboard, and installation of fancy lights and fountains, among others.
Asked about stray animals, the mayor said the MC had developed a cow shelter with a capacity to house 350 animals, but another would be constructed to accommodate a total of over 500 stray animals. He added they had created a facility where 1,000 stray dogs would be sterilised in a month and the capacity would be increased to 2,000 after some time.
Rintu added the MC was also planning to introduce a common helpline for all government services.