Plan to convert CSMT into museum chugs into controversy

Mumbai | Friday | 23rd February, 2018

Summary:

The Railway Ministry’s plan to convert the 130-year-old Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) building into a museum has run into controversy with architects and rail employees raising objections over the move. A rail museum would be incomplete without them.”Railway employees are also up in arms against the proposal. Mr.

Goyal’s plan to convert it into a museum would damage its grandeur. On Wednesday, railway authorities invited expression of interest (EoI) to develop the museum and formed an advisory board to execute the plan. Railway Minister Piyush Goyal, during his visit to Mumbai in November last year, had announced that CSMT would be converted into a “world-class museum”..