Pune, July 20 -- Deputy Mayor Parshuram Wadekar on Monday inspected the ongoing construction work of the National Memorial at the historic Bhide Wada in Budhwar Peth and directed officials to complete the project within the Mahatma Phule Bicentenary birth anniversary year.
Wadekar reviewed the progress of the project with officials, engineers and architects and stressed that the memorial should be completed within the stipulated time, maintaining high quality and in a manner befitting its historic significance.
It was at Bhide Wada in 1848 that Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule and Mahatma Jyotirao Phule started the first school for girls in India, laying the foundation for a revolutionary movement for education, equality and social transforma...