ASSAM GOVERNMENT SANCTIONS RS 1.75 CRORE TO BUY DR BHUPEN HAZARIKA’S KOLKATA HOUSE

Guwahati, October 30, 2018:

The Assam government has sanctioned an amount of Rs 1.75 crore to buy the Kolkata residence of music legend Dr Bhupen Hazarika. The decision was taken in a cabinet meeting at Janata Bhawan.

Rs 25 lakh has also been sanctioned for the renovation of the house.

The house 77 B, Golf Club Road at Tollygunge, was the bard’s first residence in then Calcutta when he went there in the year 1952. He began his musical career from this house.

The owner of the house is Sushil Kumar Dangi, who is a renowned chartered accountant in Kolkata to whom Hazarika sold off the house in the late 1990s after he shifted from Kolkata to Mumbai.

In 1981, Hazarika bought the house after living there for three decades to preserve his memory. However, as he settled down in Mumbai in the late nineties, Hazarika sold the house to Dangi.

Hazarika's famous rendition, 'O Ganga tum Behti ho Kyun', like many other famous songs, was conceived and planned in this house in Kolkata.

A deal has been signed between Assam cultural affairs minister Naba Kumar Doley, media advisor to Assam chief minister Hrishikesh Goswami and Sushil Kumar Dangi for possession of the house.