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Jaipur Foundation Day; Celebration Time ,also reminder to Save Cultural Heritage

Today Jaipur citizens celebrate Jaipur 's Founation Day .The staue of  Sawai Jai Singh at Statue Circle reminds of his  multi-faceted  personality reflected in planning  this world famous city. Way back in 1976,when I was working as Deputy  Secretary  GAD and Cabinet a suggestion was received   by then  Chief Secretary  Shri Mohan Mukherjee that. State Government should celebrate  250th year of Jaipur's foundation. I as his Deputy   Secretary had to  process the same on file which I did.Among other things, it was pointed out that in order  to plan large scale celebration activities we should have consultations.  Chief Secretary directed me on the file to consult Shri AK Roy State Industrial Adviser and his batchmate who, as research study, had  recently published  book named ,A History of Jaipur.I called on him with file. Without  much thought  he wrote on the file " Why not celebrate 250...