The Bombay Christian Burial Board has questioned how it can conduct burials if the burial ground—one of Asia's largest public graveyards—gets the grade II-B heritage tag. It has vaults, niches and graves of Roman Catholics, Protestants and other denominations dating back to 1800s.
It is also the final resting place of architect F W Stevens, who designed Victoria Terminus and the BMC headquarters, George Wittet (Gateway of India's designer), artist Francis Newton Souza and writer-poet Dom Moraes. After the list was announced, the board wrote to the BMC and stated its opposition. "If the cemetery is on the heritage list does it mean that every time there is a funeral we will have to take the heritage committee's permission?" the letter asked. "Having to take permission from you for every burial is absurd," it stated.
"We don't mind if they (the BMC) want to preserve the heritage value of ancient graves provided they maintain them," said Fr Donath D'souza, the board's trustee and honorary treasurer.
"Foreign visitors are dismayed at the condition of graves. Our appeals to the BMC for the cemetery's upkeep have fallen on deaf ears. The main path on which bodies are taken for burial is in a bad shape. People struggle to push the trolley on which the coffin is placed," he added.
Members of the Mumbai Heritage Conservation Committee said the cemetery's administrators will be given a chance to present their case in front of a review committee set up to hear such cases.
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