India still reviewing immigration monument project

The Indian government is still reviewing the Indian immigration monument project report which was compiled by the Ministry of Public Infrastructure following the collapse of the base of the intended monument last year April.

“We gave (Ministry of) Social Cohesion all the soil reports and they sent it up, through the High Commissioner, to India where they will be doing the reviewing…after they review it we will go out to tender for the base,” Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson, told Stabroek News last week.

During March 2017, Prime Minister, Moses Nagamootoo, together with the Indian High Commissioner, Venkatachalam Mahalingam, had unveiled a signboard depicting the monument at the chosen Palmyra location. Nagamootoo, during that unveiling ceremony, had told media operatives that $97 million had been allocated for the building of the structure upon which the monument would be placed.