Bhagat Singhs house and school in Pakistan gets Rs. 80 million for restoration All India | Press Trust of India | Updated: February 17, 2014 Bhagat Singhs house and school in Pakistan gets Rs 80 million for restoration AFP Singhs village, Bangay, some 150 kilometres from Lahore, would also become a tourist attraction for people. (File photo) Lahore: Legendary freedom fighter Bhagat Singhs ancestral house, school and his village in Punjab Province in Pakistan will be restored under a Rs. 80-million project. We have allocated Rs. 80 million for restoration of the house and school of Independence war hero Bhagat Singh. The amount will also be spent for the uplift of Singhs village where clean drinking water is not available and drainage system is in bad shape, Faisalabad District Coordination Officer Noorul Amin Mengal told PTI. Mr Mengal said that people in Faisalabad take pride in the fact that Bhagat Singh was the son of their soil and want the place to be known as the town of Bhaghat Singh. The celebrated revolutionary was born September 28, 1907 at Bangay village, Jaranwala Tehsil in the Faisalabad (then Lyallpur) district of the Province. Singhs village, Bangay, some 150 kilometres from Lahore, would also become a tourist attraction for people, especially Indians, once his house is restored by this year end, he added. Singhs village is just 35 kilometres from Nankana Sahib. It could be another point of attraction for the Sikh pilgrims, he said. The government has also planned to shift Singhs belongings from Faisalabad Museum and Library to his house, he added. Bangay has a population of 5,000 people. Bhagats two-kanal house is owned by advocate Iqbal Virk. We will certainly buy the house from the advocate, Mr Mengal said. On March 23, 1931, following his trial for involvement in the Lahore conspiracy case, the British government hanged him at Shadman Chowk, aged 23.
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