Heritage enthusiasts deplore ramp works at Moula Ali hill
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850-metre ramp being constructed lands behind historic shrine the place a giant parking zone is being readied
The rat-rat-rat of pneumatic drill breaks the calm of the day midway up the Maula Ali hillock. The clean rock is now pock-marked with holes. Blocks of granite are tossed to 1 facet as staff insert chisels to crack the rock into items to construct a ₹25-crore ramp that may rework the small religious shrine. A gray haze of granite mud hangs within the air.
“We are restoring the naqqar khana (drum house), arches and other small structures on top of the Maula Ali hill. Once the ramp is completed, we will take up the work of the half-dome that will protect the shrine and will be visible from across the city,” says Syed Nazeer Hasan Abedi of Al Kausar Trust, which is restoring the heritage religious web site.
“Once the ramp is built, the view of the two chattris will be blocked. It will take away some of the aura of the place. I had seen the markings earlier but this is not what I had expected. They are building a two-lane ramp and a parking space for 50 cars near the tower,” says Sibghat Khan, an structure pupil, who chanced upon the destruction whereas on a go to to the location and raised an alarm.
In the primary part, the ramp ended on the best facet of the primary touchdown. The present 850-metre ramp being constructed within the second part takes it up the hillock and lands behind the shrine the place an enormous parking zone is being readied.
Maula Ali is a medieval non secular web site constructed throughout the Qutb Shahi period after Ibrahim Qutb Shah’s aide had a dream. Over successive years, particularly throughout the early a part of Asaf Jahi rule, the shrine gained in significance as rulers patronised the religious spot. The Urs of Hazrat Ali turns the hill and its surrounding areas right into a fairground with a whole lot of hundreds of holiday makers and pilgrims thronging the location. During Muharram, hundreds of mourners attain the location to commemorate the battle of Karbala.
“What is the need for a ramp? When the Nizams and his noblemen could climb the hill to pray, why can’t people do the same now? This will take away the charm of the place,” says Anuradha Reddy of Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage.
The Maula Ali hillock has seen gradual destruction proper from the time when a communication tower was constructed by the police division in 2009 proper beside the small ashoorkhana.
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