George Everest’s Mussoorie home to turn into cartography museum
The Uttarakhand government is planning to turn the Mussoorie house of George Everest, former Surveyor General of India, after whom the world’s highest peak is named into a cartography museum at a cost of Rs Rs 24 crore, Dilip Jawalkar, state’s tourism secretary, informed.
“The construction of a cartographic museum is proposed at George Everest and a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will be signed soon with the Survey of India in this regard. Under a Rs 24 crore project, the George Everest’s house is being renovated as a tourist spot where eco-friendly log huts, mobile toilets, food vans, open theatre, approach road and a heritage track is being constructed for tourists,” he said.
He also inspected the progress of the Dehradun-Mussoorie ropeway project. He said that after the removal of illegal encroachments, marking of land for the project has started and all preparations have been completed for the Dehradun-Mussoorie ropeway at the level of the Department of Tourism.
A contractual agreement has been signed with a private firm for this project and work will soon start after environmental clearance from departments concerned.
