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...