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Written by Sanjay Bumbroo, Tribune News Service, Amritsar
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Saturday, 19 April 2008 |
 Paucity of funds with the municipal corporation has further delayed the installation of a statue of Sardar Sham Singh Attariwala, one of the great generals in Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s army. The statue is to be installed at the Gateway of Amritsar. The statue has arrived here from Jaipur some time ago.
Commissioner of the corporation D.P.S. Kharbanda said the total construction cost of the project was about Rs 3 crore. About 95 per cent of the work had been completed. The cost of the statue was to be borne by the Amritsar Improvement Trust.
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal had laid the foundation stone of the project in 1977 and it was named then as Gateway of India. Even Badal did not bother about it when he became CM again in 1997. However, the previous Congress regime had announced a grant of Rs 2 crore for the project and renamed it as the Gateway of Amritsar.
Meanwhile, Col Harvinder Singh Attari, general secretary of the General Sardar Sham Singh Attariwala Trust, told this reporter on the phone from New Delhi that the 21-foot-high and 3-ton gunmetal statue of the general would be one of the biggest statues in India.
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