Old splendour of Chandni Chowk can be restored: Sumitra Mahajan

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, December 14

Asking for restoration of old splendor of Chandni Chowk, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, who presented a citation to Union Minister Vijay Goel and his son Siddhant for supported a heritage walk in Chandni Chowk, a densely populated market which had been around for more than three centuries.

Mahajan said the government and the people should come together to restore the "old splendour" of Chandni Chowk.

The market was once divided by canals to reflect the moonlight, and merchants from Turkey, China and even Holland visited it, according to the Delhi Tourism Department website. 

"The old splendour of Chandni Chowk could be restored. We can definitely think of developing a heritage walk there with the help of people and the government," she said at an event at the official residence of Goel.

Mahajan and the section chief and programme specialist for culture at the UNESCO's New Delhi office, Moe Chiba, also presented a citation to  Vijay Goel and his son Siddhant for the restoration of the 19th-century Dharampura Haveli in Chandni Chowk.