War museum project faces encroachment obstacle

August 31, 2014 20:09

For construction of the National War Museum at the Princess Park locality near India Gate, the defence ministry will have to find a place to settle over 100 families living in that area.

The families are living in over 200 servant quarters built on 14 acre land where the memorial is planned to be built and they have to be removed from there, defence ministry officials said.

People living there have been offered alternative land in Delhi Cantt and some other nearby areas for building their houses, they said.

Defence Minister Arun Jaitley, who had visited the site two weeks ago, was also briefed by top Army officers including Army Chief Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag on the issue at the proposed construction site.

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