{"id":14255,"date":"2013-10-08T13:38:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T08:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=14255"},"modified":"2013-10-08T21:19:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T15:49:21","slug":"tagore-theatre-renovation-works-to-be-completed-by-december-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/tagore-theatre-renovation-works-to-be-completed-by-december-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Tagore Theatre renovation works to be completed by December 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renovation of <strong>Tagore Theatre<\/strong> at Vazuthacaud was launched in 2011 by the then Chief Minister, V.S. Achuthanandan and two years has passed since the work started.<\/p>\n<p>Now it seems like the project has picked up pace, with the government and the nodal agency, Kerala Transport Development Finance Corporation Ltd (KTDFC), finally found suppliers for air-conditioning and audio facilities.\u00a0 With this, it is expected that the ongoing renovation works can be completed by December 15.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities have awarded the contract for supplying the air-conditioning systems to Hitachi and the contract for audio systems to Genesis. The installation of air-conditioners and audio systems posed a major problem for the authorities in meeting many deadlines for completing the works. The authorities had to invite bids 4 times.<\/p>\n<p>The Tagore theatre is renovated at a total cost of <strong>Rs 41.05 crore.<\/strong> The funds were to be provided by the Central and state governments in a 60:40 ratio.\u00a0 However, due to the delay in getting the fund from central government, state government is investing the extra amount, without waiting for the allocation. The government has spent Rs 16.45 crore recently for the project.<\/p>\n<p>95% of the civil works have been completed and 10 contractors are working simultaneously taking care of civil, interior and electrical sections. Renovation works include repairing of damages, setting up of audio-video, AC, lighting, car parking, yard and garden lighting, rest-places, construction of walking path and installation of mural painting.<\/p>\n<p>The Tagore theatre was built as part of Rabindranath Tagore\u2019s 100th birth anniversary celebrations, in 1961. The theatre has an important place in the cultural life of the city. After serving nearly 50 years, the<strong> 1,200-seater theatre<\/strong> was closed for renovation in 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renovation of Tagore Theatre at Vazuthacaud was launched in 2011 by the then Chief Minister, V.S. Achuthanandan and two years has passed since the work started. Now it seems like the project has picked up pace, with the government and the nodal agency, Kerala Transport Development Finance Corporation Ltd (KTDFC), finally found suppliers for air-conditioning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":14257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-14255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}