{"id":25254,"date":"2016-01-21T11:38:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T06:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=25254"},"modified":"2016-01-21T11:38:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T06:08:11","slug":"nishagandhi-open-air-auditorium-to-get-permanent-roofing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/nishagandhi-open-air-auditorium-to-get-permanent-roofing\/","title":{"rendered":"Nishagandhi Open-air auditorium to get permanent roofing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nishagandhi Open-air auditorium located inside Kanakakkunnu Palace grounds will soon get a permanent roof.<\/p>\n<p>The one of its kind auditorium with a permanent screen and stage will get butterfly-shaped permanent roofing, to make Nishagandhi an \u2018all-weather venue\u2019.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The roof will look like a giant butterfly from the top and it will match with the heritage beauty of the palace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The decision to make Nishagandhi an \u2018all-weather venue\u2019 comes in the wake of the demand for an auditorium from many organizations, including the film fraternity, to hold film shows and cultural programmes. Once a permanent roofing is constructed Nishagandhi can even be used during daytime to screen films and to stage dance, music and other entertainment programmes.<\/p>\n<p>The roof will look like a giant butterfly from the top and it will match with the heritage beauty of the palace and the green environment. The work for roof has commenced with the government giving the administrative sanction for the Rs.3.5-crore work. Hollow steel will be used to construct the roof. Steel Industries Kerala Ltd. (SILK) will carry out the construction. The work will be taken up after the week-long Nishagandhi festival and the permanent roof is expected to be completed in one month<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When the permanent roof is in place, authorities can rent out the auditorium round the year<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When the permanent roof is in place, authorities can rent out the auditorium round the year. The huge parking space and the adjacent Sooryakanthi exhibition grounds for holding fairs and exhibitions will be an added advantage. The auditorium can accommodate around 3,000 persons!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nishagandhi Open-air auditorium located inside Kanakakkunnu Palace grounds will soon get a permanent roof. The one of its kind auditorium with a permanent screen and stage will get butterfly-shaped permanent roofing, to make Nishagandhi an \u2018all-weather venue\u2019. The roof will look like a giant butterfly from the top and it will match with the heritage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":24848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-25254","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\/25254"}],"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=25254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}