Viramgam

Conservation and restoration work of Munsar talav in Viramgam kicked off today. This talav was built by Gujarat’s one of the greatest ruler Siddhraj Jaysinh about thousand years back. Government of India has approved Rs 50 lakh amount for this project. Similar amount has also been allocated to Malav Talav restoration work at Dholka town. This is just initial amount. The total budget allocated for each of two lake bodies is Rs 6 crore.State Minister and Dholka MLA Bhupendrasinh Chudasama had last year during his visit to Delhi made representation for restoration, repair and conservation of these two medieval period lakes that were built during Solanki era which was called golden era of Gujarat. Munsar lake has central water body and over 100 temples on the lake front. In Siddhraj’s time each of this temple had deity and it was worshiped regularly with a grand evening aarti in presence of thousands of oil lamps and music. Nowadays many of the temples are destroyed fully or partially and the lake body is used for washing of cloths. Superintendent of Archaeology Shri Jitendranath among others were present on this occasion.

– DeshGujarat