Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar is a perfectionist and the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has to put extra efforts to convince the little master to agree to the plan to set up a museum in his name.
After the PMC standing committee chairman Ganesh Bidkar recently met Tendulkar during his Pune visit, the PMC is busy preparing detailed plan for the museum. The PMC is consulting experts on the final draft of the museum and its overall development which will be presented to Tendulkar along with the details he had asked for.
Tendulkar asked me, why the corporation needs Rs 40 crore for museum? What will be done with the money and what is the plan to utilise it? said Bidkar adding that the Master Blaster was curious about the plan and categorical in his demand for all minute details about the museum.
The corporation will present a detailed plan to Tendulkar and after his green signal will go ahead with the museum.
PMC has two-acre land in Baner which has been acquired by the PMC under amenity reservation. The general body of the corporation has already approved the proposal and forwarded the same for the state government's nod.
In March last year, the Maharashtra government in its budget had announced that it would set up a museum in Mumbai to showcase the legend's achievements. Finance minister Sunil Tatkare also made a provision of Rs 40 crore for the same. However, the Mumbai Municipal Corporation could not provide land for the museum and the funds remained unutilised.
This prompted Pune municipal corporation to jump into action and in April this year the standing committee resolved to allocate an acre of land to the state government where a sports museum to showcase Tendulkar's career can come up.
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