Lata Mangeshkar music academy to be set up in MP

Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced on Monday that an academy would be established in Indore and named after the unchallenged empress of Indian music Bharat Ratna Lata Mangeshkar who was born in that city.

“A museum shall also be constructed, a statue installed and a birth anniversary award instituted,” he said at the state capital's Smart Park during his routine plantation.

The Chief Minister planted a banyan sapling in memory of the Nightingale of India. (UNI)