A village on the Delhi-Haryana border finds an aeroplane in its midst. Better, the people may soon be allowed in as a real-estate businessman is converting A-I's scrap Air Bus 310 into a temple, museum.
What has Alipur and the villages around it, on the Delhi-Haryana border, fascinated is the construction of arguably India's first museum-cum-temple inside an Air Bus 310. The 160-ft-long, 60-ft-high, 80-tonne airplane, that once belonged to Air-India, is parked in what's been dubbed a "workshop" for the transformation.
A private organisation, Sri Sai Aeronautics Pvt Ltd, run by a real-estate businessman, Rakesh Dikshit, came up with the idea of buying a discarded aeroplane and turning it into a museum-cum-Sai temple.Dikshit, who is based in Pitampura, Delhi, purchased the A-I plane in February in Mumbai for Rs 40 lakh and from there, brought it to Delhi.Around 30 labourers are on the job, and have already pulled out all the seats from inside the plane. They will be levelling the floor, doing the wiring and revamping the interiors. The washroom, the pantry, entry-exit gates, the windows and, most importantly, the cockpit will be restored to give the visitors a feel of being inside an original airplane, says Dikshit. The seats that have been removed will be used later for seating.
03/11/13 Ananya Bhardwaj/Indian Express
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What has Alipur and the villages around it, on the Delhi-Haryana border, fascinated is the construction of arguably India's first museum-cum-temple inside an Air Bus 310. The 160-ft-long, 60-ft-high, 80-tonne airplane, that once belonged to Air-India, is parked in what's been dubbed a "workshop" for the transformation.
A private organisation, Sri Sai Aeronautics Pvt Ltd, run by a real-estate businessman, Rakesh Dikshit, came up with the idea of buying a discarded aeroplane and turning it into a museum-cum-Sai temple.Dikshit, who is based in Pitampura, Delhi, purchased the A-I plane in February in Mumbai for Rs 40 lakh and from there, brought it to Delhi.Around 30 labourers are on the job, and have already pulled out all the seats from inside the plane. They will be levelling the floor, doing the wiring and revamping the interiors. The washroom, the pantry, entry-exit gates, the windows and, most importantly, the cockpit will be restored to give the visitors a feel of being inside an original airplane, says Dikshit. The seats that have been removed will be used later for seating.
03/11/13 Ananya Bhardwaj/Indian Express
