Osmania University's Arts College to Illuminate Nights with Sound and Light Show

Hyderabad: The famous Arts College of Osmania University will be aglow at night starting the first week of July with the inauguration of Union ministry of culture’s permanent illumination progarmme, Union culture minister G. Kishan Reddy said on Saturday.

Kishan Reddy said the OU authorities had been asked to set up a committee to prepare a script for a sound and light show to be staged at the Arts College on the university campus. “This show will highlight OU’s history, the stalwarts who studied in Arts College, its role in the Telangana movement,” he said. The Arts College project is being done by the ministry at a cost of ₹12 crore.”

Kishan Reddy said another sound and light show would be set up at a cost of ₹2 crore at Golconda fort. The show that is on during the weekends will be extended to all days. Permanent illumination works at the Charminar and the Warangal fort are getting ready.

The Salar Jung museum in the city will open five galleries developed at a cost of ₹1.75 crore, on Indian sculpture, Bidri ware, lamps and European marble and bronze statues, Kishan Reddy said.

The minister, during a presentation on what the Centre has done for Telangana in the last nine years, stressed on his ministry’s contribution to the state on various fronts, adding that as part of these works, reconstruction of a section of the Thousand Pillar temple in Warangal is apace and will be completed by the end of this year.

Once this work is completed, the temple will truly have a thousand pillars. “Similarly, we are reconstructing the dilapidated Kameshwara temple at Ramappa,” he said. Kishan Reddy said the old Saifabad Mint in the heart of the city near the Secretariat was saved from demolition and converted into a museum.