Madhya Pradesh government to set up music academy, state award in Lata Mangeshkar’s memory

TheMadhya Pradeshgovernment announced to set up a music academy and a museum in memory ofLata Mangeshkarat her birthplace,Indore.
A statue of the singer will also be installed in Indore. Along with these, a state award will be named after Lata Mangeshkar, which would be given to artists on the occasion of her birth anniversary.

The announcement came a day after the legendary singer died at a hospital in Mumbai on Sunday after multi-organ failure.

She was born in a locality near a Gurudwara in Indore on September 28, 1929.