Almost a decade-old proposal of converting playwright and poet Gurajada Apparao’s house in the city into a museum has remained on paper. Although the house was handed over to the Archaeological Department a few years, its maintenance is said to be very poor in the absence of proper execution and monitoring.
Gurajada wrote Kanyasulkam, considered to be among the greatest and popular Telugu plays, in the year 1892 in this house, which is adjacent to the historic Vizianagaram fort. He had purchased it from the then Raja by paying around ₹2,500. Earlier, it was used as a tax collection centre.
