Madhabdev Kalakshetra Yet To Be Completed Even After 12 Years

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: With the State Public Works Department (Building) preparing the fresh Detail Project Report (DPR) relating to Sri Sri Madhabdev Kalakshetra at Narayanpur in Lakhimpur, the public on the tithi of the Mahapurush on Tuesday is looking forward to the early completion of this project that has been languishing for more than 12 years now.

Its foundation stone was laid way back on March 23, 2007 by then Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, and was to be implemented by the State Cultural Affairs Department. However, owing to fund crunch, flaws in the project report and other nagging issues, the project remained in the doldrums all these years. Reportedly, not even 50 per cent of the project was completed during the previous Congress regime.

Of late, the BJP-led coalition government has decided to hand over the project to the State PWD (B). Estimated at approximately Rs 31 crore, this socio-cultural venture will focus on the life and variegated work of Mahapurush Sri Sri Madhabdev, the prime disciple of a neo-Vaishanavite seer Srimanta Sankardeva of the late 15th and 16th centuries in Assam. It is envisioned in the lines of the Srimanta Sankardev Kalakshetra in Guwahati.

The proposed Kalakshetra will come up on the land offered by the management of the Sri Sri Badala Padma Ata Xattra at Narayanpur in Lakhimpur district. Though the socio-cultural complex will be within the same boundary yet it would be constructed in such a manner so that the daily functioning and activities of the Xattra remains undisturbed bue to the visitors to the Kalakshetra. The complex will also have a ‘pandulipi’ or manuscript hall, an archives section, an auditorium, an open stage, and a children’s park besides other complexes.

Recently PWD Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma visited the site and interacted with the people of the area as well as representatives of the Xattra on the project.

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