The Demolition of the National Museum Will Extinguish the Identity of an India That was Born in 1947 https://thewire.in/culture/the-demolition-of-the-national-museum-will-extinguish-the-identity-of-an-india-that-was-born-in-1947
The incomplete complex – the final part was to be constructed in 2017 – that is the National Museum today on the intersection of erstwhile Rajpath-Janpath roads is waiting to be demolished as the plan for the central vista includes its erasure. Why a building, one part of which was completed in 1960 and the second part in 1989 needs to be destroyed is unclear. The venerable Indian Museum building in Kolkata was constructed and opened in 1878. It is the ninth oldest museum in the world and Asia’s first museum. The British Museum building was completed in 1852.
Former Culture Secretary Jawhar Sircar has been asking for details ever since the central vista plan was unveiled. He said “I have received only evasive replies,” to questions on if a tender has been called to find a firm that will handle the packing and storage of the two lakh objects? Common sense suggests that invaluable artefacts cannot be simply packed and shoved into storage.