Source: Hueiyen News Network
Imphal, January 03 2008:
Despite investment of nearly Rs 1 crore, the rejuvenating works of the Bheigyachandra Open Air Theatre (BOAT) at Palace compound could not be completed till date and opens for public utility.
The long closure owing to the non-completion of rejuvenating works is causing many inconveniences to the people apart from losing income that can earn from public use by the state government.
The theatre to mention here has been a convenient place for holding public functions and entertainment programmes like musical concerts and other and was a theatre which holds functions everyday round the year.
But since the closure of it around two year back since the early part of 2007, performing of all forms of programmes have since been suspending.
Not only causing inconveniences to the people, the closure has lost fund amounting to around Rs 6 lakhs which would be earned as government income from the theatre.
Authority suspended lending the theatre for holding public function and other in the early part of 2007 in connection with the repairing and rejuvenating works of the theatre.
It was targeted to complete the works by April 2008.
And with the hope of completion of the same on time, many individuals and organizations stormed for advance booking.
But the same still remained un-open.
There was an instant of intimation from the contractor doing the repairing and rejuvenating works for handing over the BAOT to the authority, arts and culture department stating that the works have been completed.
At that time the department turned the intimation of the contractor stating that the works are not completed.
But due to the non-completion of the official procedure, a huge amount to be earned by the government as revenue from the BOAT had been lost.
Now, many has started observing that keeping unsolved the prevailing situation in the BOAT will not be a rightful one as the existing condition is a totally different one to the expectation of the general masses a beautiful theatre, more beautiful than that of earlier one after April 2008.
When some interested persons made inquiry into the matter, authorities disclosed that they are targeting to complete the works by just concluded December month but the repairing works are yet to complete far beyond the expectation.