The official residence of India's first prime minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, at Delhi's Teen Murti Estate is now a museum and a library that was created in his memory. This place is all set to have a second museum which will be technologically advanced. This one, for all the other 15 prime ministers as well, a senior official told NDTV after a meeting of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, or NMML.
"It will be one of the most modern museums in the world," said Shakti Sinha, the retired bureaucrat who is driving the project to build the museum for PMs.
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The Congress party believes the move to build a museum for all prime ministers at Teen Murti rather than a new location is an effort to erode Jawaharlal Nehru's legacy. Rajnath Singh has responded to this suspicion that there is no question of diluting his legacy and no one can do that as the contribution of country's first prime minister was unparalleled.
Sinha said they would go by the advice of architects to locate the museum in the 25-acre Teen Murti Estate. There is adequate space, he said, pointing that the Nehru museum only occupied about half-an-acre. He did not elaborate about the technology to be used.
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The government wants this as the first museum in the country to introduce the augmented reality technology. According to a report by NDTV, the government is looking for companies that can create a virtual interface using graphics, animations or videos of prime ministers. This technology would enable people to meet and greet the prime minister of their choice in a real environment, allow visitors to interact and visualise themselves in the augmented display.