Heritage constructing in Bihar’s historic rail city razed in one hundredth yr of Danapur Division

By Thursday night, the two-storey constructing was decreased virtually to a shadow of itself as its once-famed ballroom which hosted lavish Christmas events within the British period and within the early a long time after the Independence, and its center construction, have been pulverised to mud, exposing its previous steel garters that held its roof until two days in the past.

The constructing of N.C. Ghosh Institute, mentioned to have been renamed after independence, had been “marked” for demolition a number of months in the past. It was to make means for an elevated street that can come up between Danapur and Bihta, one other previous city within the Patna district, folks aware of the matter earlier mentioned.

Close to the Danapur Railway Station, one other over a century-old railway institute (renamed V.N. Sharma Institute put up independence), a red-coloured single-storey construction in Khagaul, can be coming within the street venture alignment and can finally make means for it, they’d mentioned.

Many aged-timers and native residents who’ve grown up within the city lamented the autumn of a heritage landmark and urged authorities to additionally sensitively think about heritage preservation within the total growth plan, because the railway city is dotted with many British-era buildings, together with the railway station.

A few of the different previous buildings are the official residence of the DRM – ‘Rail Sadan’, previous railway faculty and hospital, and some lovely church buildings, apart from humble railway colonies.

Forward of the centenary celebrations of the Danapur (earlier Dinapore) Division — arrange in 1925 — an in-house analysis crew tried to dig into the provenance of the 2 institutes in Khagaul and discover archival references, however in useless, sources mentioned.

Although the precise yr of development of the constructing that housed the previous institute (N.C. Ghosh Institute) shouldn’t be recognized but, and makes an attempt earlier to seek out any civil markers on the constructing got here to nought, heritage specialists have pegged it as a century-old construction.

Additionally, whereas no archival proof has been discovered but, the previous institute is believed to have been renamed later after Rai Bahadur N C Ghosh, who within the Nineteen Thirties held the workplace of Divisional Superintendent (later Divisional Railway Supervisor).

A succession board within the workplace of the DRM mentions that Ghosh held the highest put up within the division in 1934.