Summary:
While the road department of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) wants to install iron railings along the footpath in the Fort area, the heritage department does not want stainless steel and iron railings at all. Recently, the city’s heritage panel has also written to the civic body to remove stainless steel railings along the footpath outside Mumbai University, overlooking Oval Maidan. AdvertisingEven the project team, led by additional municipal commissioner I A Kundan, wants the stainless steel railings to be removed as they are “not in consonance with the heritage precinct”. The heritage precincts that will be covered in the project are St Xavier’s College, BMC headquarters, Cross Maidan, Flora Fountain, Kala Ghoda, Jehangir Art Gallery, among others. Envisioned to provide uniformity in landscaping and tidying up the precincts, so as to make heritage structures properly visible, the installation of iron railings is against the project’s idea, said a civic official..