Addu's Bodag

Addu City Council has launched a project to renovate Bodagé, built during the Second World War in Addu City.

The project has been awarded to Maradhoo-Feydhoo’s Idrees Carpentry.

According to the agreement, it must be completed within 60 days.

Deputy Mayor of Addu City Council Abdulla Tayyib told Sun Online, “It is a very historic building. It is also the largest structure in an inhabited that shows British history. The British lived in Gan.”

MVR 500,000 will be spent by the council on renovation under the first phase of the project.

Tayyib said that Bodagé was used as a hospital by the British, and later as an office by the Suvadive government which came after the Second World War.