{"id":7025,"date":"2013-01-12T11:30:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T06:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=7025"},"modified":"2013-01-12T09:30:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T04:00:02","slug":"government-to-start-conservation-of-fort-walls-around-sree-padmanabha-swamy-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/government-to-start-conservation-of-fort-walls-around-sree-padmanabha-swamy-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Government to start conservation of Fort walls around Sree Padmanabha Swamy Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government is all set to give a facelift to the historic monuments in the Fort area. The Kerala State Archaeology Department will undertake the conservation of <strong>\u2018kotta vathilukal\u2019<\/strong> (fort gates) and <strong>\u2018kotta mathilukal\u2019<\/strong> (fort walls) surrounding the Sree Padmanabha Swamy Temple from next week. An amount of Rs 1 crore has been sanctioned by the Department of Archaeology for the conservation of the heritage structures that run almost 3 km.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2019Owing to some technical snags, the conservation was held up. But we have awarded the work now and it will start next week itself. We need the help of the Police, the Corporation and the Traffic to carry out works at many places. We are communicating with them in this regard,\u2019\u2019 said J Rejikumar, Director-in-charge of the State Archaeology Department.<\/p>\n<p>The heritage structures included in the conservation project are East Fort (located directly in front of the main entrance of Sree Padmanabha Swamy Temple), Pazhaya Angadi Fort (Vadakke Kotta),Vettimuricha Kotta( West Fort) and Thekke Kotta (which is a miniature fort). Among these, only East Fort looks better off. Even there, the German imported &#8216;Dynamic Lighting System&#8217; installed in 2004 stopped working after a couple of months due to rain water logging. The condition of Vettimuricha Kotta is pathetic. The huge carrier lorries and trucks from other states, frequently hit the fort wall as they make their turn. Earlier, the officials used to carry out night patrolling.<\/p>\n<p>The interlocking granites which is fixed together using earth filling have come off at many places and beautiful footpaths that once surrounded the fort walls have also gone missing at many locations which would be restored.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2019The side protection has come out at many places in the case of fort gates. We will use plastered lime or whatever traditional materials that have been used in the structures to conserve them. In the case of fort walls also, the granite has come off at many places as in the walls covering the Central Archives office or the \u2018<strong>Pazhaya jail<\/strong>\u2019 compound,\u2019\u2019 said V S Satheesh, conservation engineer with the Archaeology Department.<\/p>\n<p>According to historians, there are 9 openings or fort gates similar to the \u2018<strong>Navadwarangal<\/strong>\u2019 &#8211; nine openings in the human body. But some are miniature structures and due to this reasons they do not fall under the category of protected monuments of the Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government is all set to give a facelift to the historic monuments in the Fort area. The Kerala State Archaeology Department will undertake the conservation of \u2018kotta vathilukal\u2019 (fort gates) and \u2018kotta mathilukal\u2019 (fort walls) surrounding the Sree Padmanabha Swamy Temple from next week. An amount of Rs 1 crore has been sanctioned by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-7025","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\/7025"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}