Railway Cultural and Heritage Promotion Board to be set up
New Delhi:Minister for Railways Ms. Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday announced the proposal of setting up a Railway Cultural and Heritage Promotion Board which will be responsible
for coordinating and supervising all culture and heritage related activities on the railways. Presenting the Railway Budget for 2010-11 in Parliament, Ms. Banerjee
also announced that a Rabindra Museum at Howrah and Gitanjali Museum at Bolpur,
the place where Visva-Bharati international university is located, would be set
up to mark the 150th Birth Anniversary of Kabiguru Rabindranath Tagore. Ms. Banerjee
said that she also proposes to re-model Bholpur station inspired by the architecture
of Shantiniketan. To provide state-of-the-art infrastructural facilities for the
promotion of culture, the Ministry of Railways also proposes to set up Shambhu
Mitra Cultural Complex with performing arts and a music academy at Howrah, the
Railways Minister added.
