Minister visits museum on anvil

State public works department minister Mr Kshiti Goswami today visited the proposed museum here where a vast collection of historic articles of the regime of erstwhile Maharajas of Cooch Behar has been kept. These articles are lying in a closed room out of public sight at a building near Madan Modan Temple.
This building is the office of the executive engineer of PWD (Roads), highway division, Cooch Behar.
With his visit, the citizens and also the PWD staff are expecting that the necessary government approval may be issued soon to turn it a museum so that general people could see the invaluable collections.
This is for the first time that a minister has visited the place to see the PWD's history when it was under a Princely State.
Mr Goswami entered the room that is full with historic items accompanied by the executive engineer, PWD (Roads), Mr Deepak Kumar Singh, Mr Arup Jyoti Majumder and others. Mr Majumder and his colleagues in the department had collected these articles with keen interest for the last few years to make it a full-fledged museum of public works related items. There are only two such museums in this state ~ one in Darjeeling and the other in Kolkata.
The minister saw the collections with eagerness. As a student of history he questioned about the origin and usage of some of the articles. He recalled his past days in Cooch Behar. During his viewing of the age-old items, the minister praised the initiative of Mr Majumder and others of the department for their effort.
Admitting the need of a museum of this kind in Cooch Behar, he opined that a specious place is needed to convert the place into a museum. Money is also required for its implementation, he said. After the setting up of museum, common people would be allowed to see these articles, he said.
During his visit, the minister was presented with copies of some documents including the clippings of The Statesman on the proposed museum.
The PWD minister, Mr Goswami, inaugurated two road bridges in Cooch Behar today ~ one at Gheghir-ghat along Cooch Behar-Dinhata road and the other on Ghargharia river which will connect Kaljani health centre to National Highway-31.

Courtesy: The Statesman

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