NWM to be set up
Q. Where is the National War Memorial being set up?- Published on 27 Mar 17a. New Delhi
b. Kochi
c. Mumbai
d. Kolkata
ANSWER: New Delhi
- The national war memorial aims to honour 22,600 soldiers who have laid down their lives in wars and operations since Independence.
- The tentative inauguration by PM Narendra Modi is being set for August 15 next year.
- MoU for appointing the first prize winners of the two-stage global design competition held last year as consultants for the NWM and museum will be inked on April 1.
- While architect Yogesh Chandrahasan and his team won the prize for the NWM ($30,000 award money), the Spa Studio View bagged it for the museum ($75,000).
- This will be followed by the detailed project reports.
- The construction contracts, in turn, will be concluded.
- NWM was first proposed by the armed forces, which have consistently raised it with successive governments without much success due to politico-bureaucratic apathy.
- The Army does maintain around 120 regional and individual war memorials but India is probably the world's only major country not to have dedicated NWM.
- The NWM will basically be a landscape-type memorial with "retaining walls'', which will have names of all the martyrs inscribed on them.
- The adjoining museum, in turn, will showcase glorious moments in the military history of India.
