Letter to BS: Making a mountain out of a mole hill

Apropos Anjuli Bhargava’s piece “Making a mountain out of a mole hill” (May 10), it is not a good news that corporate bodies are being allowed to ‘adopt’ historical monuments. The maintenance of historical and heritage sites is the duty of the governments. If the government takes its hands off from all spheres of its responsibility, what are they supposed to do? I find no reason to support such a move. She is correct to state that the government has failed miserably to maintain historical sites and heritage buildings. But the cure to failure is to do the job properly, not to allow them to run away. If we really give up and want the corporate sector to step in, we must not forget that the corporate sector also does not cover itself in great glory. They might just look at it as a real estate acquisition. Next they would seek mileage for their ‘investment’ and start covering up the whole building with advertisements!
 
DP Ghatak  Durgapur

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