CANACONA
After missing several deadlines, Canacona’s Ravindra Bhavan for which foundation was laid by Chief Minister late Manohar Parrikar (on the occasion of present Speaker Ramesh Tawadkar’s birthday on 27th July, 2013), has got yet another date of completion -- December 19, 2022.
Presenting the budget for 2022-23 in the Goa Assembly, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant informed that the Ravindra Bhavan at Canacona costing Rs 54 crore is in advanced stages of completion and is proposed for completion by December 19, 2022.
Incidentally, work on the project on an area admeasuring 8306 sq m commenced just a few months before the 2017 Assembly elections on 2-1-2017 and the deadline for completion was 01-01-2019.
Most of the structural work on the project, which has missed several deadlines, is completed and now an expert committee is appointed to recommend sound and other indoor essentials.
It will have 800 seats, a rehearsal hall, an art gallery, classrooms for music, drama, dance, a dormitory for visiting artists, a cafetaria, an administrative block, besides parking facilities for 51 four-wheelers and 131 two-wheelers.
