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India: The North Delhi Municipal Corporation has announced that work on the 150-year-old Town Hall in old Delhi will start in the next nine months.
A tender for the redevelopment is likely to be issued next week. The redevelopment plan seeks a conservation of the Victorian-era mansion that will house a museum, a boutique hotel, a craft bazaar, a dancing fountain, a maze, light and sound programmes, street food, children’s activity area, food court, courtyard and sculpture garden, digital library, lecture rooms, and fine dining areas.
North Delhi Mayor Preety Agarwal said that the detailed project report (DPR) and the request for proposal (RFP) of the project for inviting bids from consultants have been prepared, and the North Delhi Municipal Corporation is now in the process of floating the tender.
“Our aim is to get the project started in the next nine months. This redevelopment project has been stuck for several years now and we do not want it to suffer any further,” she
Built in 1860s, and known originally as the Lawrence Institute, the Town Hall was the seat of the city’s municipality till 2012, before moving to the Civic Centre in central Delhi’s Minto Road.
