Mantralaya’s rebirth hinges on audit: CM Prithviraj Chavan
Sharad Vyas & Sanjeev Shivadekar, TNN Jun 23, 2012, 05.48AM IST
Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Friday said a final decision
on redevelopment of the Mantralaya building, which was gutted in
a massive blaze on Thursday, hinged on the structural audit
report. "Only the Maharashtra government will take a decision on
the redevelopment. It will be done by the government itself."
Chavan made the statement in the wake of NCP chief Sharad
Pawar's suggestion that the ravaged 57-year-old state government
headquarters should be rebuilt. Pawar was talking to
mediapersons at Vidhan Bhavan before he went to inspect
Mantralaya. He also suggested that the government should
undertake the reconstruction on its own and not hand it over to
a private player on a build-operate-transfer or public-private-
partnership basis; a point that Chavan reiterated.  Pawar said
he had consulted officials of the national disaster agency after
the fire. He said the officials were