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Ishmeet memorial runs into rough weather
WSN Bureau 

LUDHIANA: The under-construction memorial named after late singer Ishmeet Singh has landed in a controversy when officers of Ludhiana Improvement Trust (LIT) stalled the work on the project, saying the building plan has not been approved and even the government has not yet sanctioned transfer of land to the Ishmeet Memorial Trust or cultural department. 

CM Parkash Singh Badal had announced the memorial’s construction over 2.10 acre at Rajguru Nagar last year and the work was initiated by the public works department (PWD) a few days ago. 

On learning about it, a team of LIT officers comprising junior engineers (JE) Vikram Kumar, Naveen Malhotra and Inder Pal Singh led by assistant trust engineer Subhash Gupta went to the spot on Friday morning and asked the PWD contractor to stop the work as the project had not been approved by the trust. Complying with it, the contractor halted the construction on the memorial. Dr Charan Kanwal Singh, uncle of Ishmeet Singh and secretary of Ishmeet Memorial Trust, confirmed this saying, “Though the state government has in principle taken decision regarding the transfer of land, it is yet to materialize. The PWD, which will execute the work, has got a grant of Rs 1 crore for it, so they had just started the initial work of constructing the boundary walls.” 

CM Parkash Singh Badal had announced the construction of a music academy in Ishmeet’s memory, when he had attended the ‘bhog’ ceremony of the young singer last year. Badal had asked the state government officials to identify a site for it.

14 October 2009
 

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