The author has posted comments on this articleHimanshu Kaushik, TNN | Feb 17, 2015, 07.55PM IST

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The Mission authorities are also setting up a museum and memorial to Gandhiji at the Noakhali ashram. In West Bengal, the central government is restoring the building of Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya at Barrackpore. Once the building is restored, the Mission will also set up a new museum at the Barrackpore memorial.

The Gandhi Ashram, as the nodal agency of Gandhi Heritage Mission, is preparing a restoration programme for 39 sites associated with Bapu. The Mission and its architecture division teams led by CEPT members of faculty Neelkant Chaya, Mrunal Panchal and Riyaz Tayyabzi have already visited Delhi, Rajasthan, Porbandar, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Pune and Rangpur.

Bapu's daily life: The Gandhi Heritage Mission has prepared details of Gandhiji's daily location. The Mission is now trying to collect more information about what Gandhiji did on which day the speeches (if any) he delivered on a particular day, the events he was associated with and the people he met that day. The Mission authorities are also trying to identify places from where Bapu wrote had written different letters.

Phone App: The Gandhi Heritage Site Mission has developed a phone application (app) that provides a virtual tour of sites associated with Bapu. The app will soon be available at Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad too. (It may be mentioned that the Gandhi Ashram already provides visitors a virtual tour of Manibhavan and other sites.) The Sabarmati Ashram Preservation and Memorial Trust has also developed for Gandhi Ashram a mobile phone app which is compatible with android phones as well as iPhones. It will provide the complete history and have visuals of every place in the Sabarmati Ashram. For example, when a visitor enters Magan Nivas at the Ashram, he will get to know beforehand on his phone or tablet what he is going to see, and its historical background with visuals.

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Gandhi Heritage Site Mission plans large-scale restoration