Ramappa to have sculpture institute

HYDERABAD: A

traditional stone sculpture institution

will be set up at the over 800-year-old

Ramappa

temple at

Palampet

near

Warangal

.

TRS MLC Pochampalli Srinivas Reddy

, who visited

Tirumala

on Thursday along with Rajya Sabha MP J Santosh Kumar and

MLC

Naveen Rao, said a detailed project report will be submitted to chief minister

K Chandrasekhar

Rao about the proposed institution.


Srinivas Reddy said it was with the intention of setting up the sculpture institute that they visited TTD’s stone sculpture production wing at Tirumala.

To develop Ramappa as an international tourist destination, efforts had already begun, he said. “The intention is to set up the stone sculpture institute on the piece of island in the lake at Ramappa temple,” Srinivas Reddy said, adding it would be the ideal location.