Shaheed – e – Azam Bhagat Singh’s pictures and quotes are shared at the batting of an eyelid on his bigday but a real tribute to him is still yet to happen.
Eight years hence the museum dedicated to the brave son of the soil at his ancestral village Khatkar Kalan still remains incomplete.
Its completion still hangs fire for the past several years.
Call it illtreating a historic personality or clear ignorance as India just observed Shaheed Bhagat Singh’s birthday, residents of the martyr’s village want action clearly talking of apathy of the governments over decades.
Work at the museum project got stalled over nine months back due to lack of funds.
Installation of artworks in the museum galleries is yet to start in the complex. Work on exhibits, lights and sound system yet to happen.
The work was expected to wind up in another six months, the delay has already escalated the project cost from ₹8.45 crore to ₹17 crore.
Former Union home minister P Chidambaram had laid the foundation stone of the project on February 23, 2009.
Officials say the museum would be ready by March 2018.
Nearly 85-kanal land was also acquired for expansion of the new museum.
Locals says despite Centre’s announcement to develop Khatkar Kalan as a model village nothing has been done.
Besides Bhagat Singh, the museum will also be a memorial to Sukhdev, Rajguru, and 9,000 martyrs from Punjab who sacrificed their lives in the Indian freedom struggle.
The moments of Jallianwala Bagh, British police officer John Saunders killing, bombing at the Delhi Central Legislative Assembly on 1929, arrest and execution of Bhagat Singh will be recreated.
Bhagat Singh was born at Banga village of Lyallpur district (now Faisalabad in Pakistan) on September 28, 1907. He was 23 when the British hanged him in 1931 for the Lahore conspiracy case.
Khatkar Kalan is a village just outside Banga town in Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar district in the Indian state of Punjab.
Neighboring villages that share a boundary with Khatkar Kalan are Thandian, Dosanjh Khurd, Manguwal, Karnana, Kahma, Bhootan, Bhukhari and the Town of Banga .
In the museum half burnt bones and blood stained newspapers are well preserved and displayed.
A copy of Judgment of the 1st Lahore Conspiracy case, a small addition of Bhagwat Geeta with Shaheed-e-Azam’s autographs is also on display.
The pen used by the executioner for signing the death sentence of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Rajguru & Sukhdev is also in display in the museum.
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