PANJIM: Goa Governor Mridula Sinha on Saturday laid foundation stone for new Darbar Hall at Raj Bhavan, Dona Paula.
The new Durbar Hall building is planned to cater to the need of Raj Bhavan to have bigger space for conducting various government ceremonies at larger scale as the present Durbar Hall at Raj Bhavan has space constraint.
Foundation stone laying ceremony was held in the presence of Union Minister of State for AYUSH Shripad Naik, Minister for Public Works Department Ramkrishna Dhavalikar, Taleigao MLA Jennifer Monserrate, Spouse of Governor Dr Ramkripal Sinha, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister P Krishnamurthy IAS, Goa University Vice Chancellor Dr Varun Sahni, Secretary to Governor Rupesh Kumar Thakur, IAS, Principal Chief Engineer, PWD Uttam Parsekar and others.
On the occasion, Dr Sinha said that Raj Bhavan has its Durbar hall with historical importance. It has witnessed many historical events and ceremonies in the past. Since the Durbar Hall is having limited seating capacity, Raj Bhavan was finding lot of inconvenience to organise Government ceremonies and other events in larger scale. Hence the need for new Durbar Hall building was felt and efforts were made to construct the same. Upcoming hall will meet all the requirements for conducting Government Ceremonies such as Swearing in ceremonies and other Official events, she added.
Sinha also lauded the significant efforts made by Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar and Dhavalikar to construct the new Darbar Hall. She also appreciated officials of Public Works Department of for planning and undertaking the work of construction for new Durbar hall.
Dhavalikar said that the problem of space constraint at Durbar hall was felt since last many years but Governor Dr Sinha is the one who felt the need to have new a Durbar Hall and conceived the idea to construct it. The new building of Durbar Hall will have aesthetic view connecting to nature. It will have around 700 seating capacity with all modern amenities, the minister Informed.
Earlier, Governor Sinha and her husband Dr Ramkripal Sinha performed pooja as a part of foundation stone laying for new Durbar hall.
