AMRITSAR: On the first day after the reopening of the garden today, thousands of tourists visited Jallianwala Bagh and paid homage to the martyrs.
It may be mentioned that the garden was closed due to renovation work but it was not reopened due to Carona.
When this reporter visited the garden, he found that there has been a change in the Shahidi well.
Earlier, it was rumored that the government might charge for admission tickets. But there is no entry ticket.
Light and Sound Programme
The Light and Sound program will run daily at 6 p.m.Three video galleries and a theater were set up in the garden where videos about Jallianwala Bagh were being displayed. And thousands of visitors liked the video.
Jallianwala Bagh is the only place of martyrdom where those killed in 1919 belonged to different communities. He was assassinated by the British Government on 13 April 1919 and was avenged by Shaheed Udham Singh. He belonged to Sunam but after the death of his parents he was in the Central Orphanage at Amritsar.
In 2019, approximately Rs 20 crore was earmarked by the Centre for the commemoration of 100 years of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
Restoration and conservation work, and the building of facilities such as toilets, ticketing counters, and drinking water, have been undertaken by the Ministry of Culture.
The memorial has been shut for the public since February 2019 for the makeover, implemented by the government-owned NBCC Ltd.
The entry and exit points to the Bagh have been repositioned, and a lotus pond has been built around the main memorial. The famous ‘Shahidi Khu’ or Martyrs Well, into which people jumped to escape the hail of bullets, is now enclosed in a glass shield — a controversial decision that has been criticised since it is perceived to restrict the view.