NWM to be set up

Q.  Where is the National War Memorial being set up?
- Published on 27 Mar 17

a. 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.

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