Amrit Vav, also known as Navgrah Vav, is a seven-storey Gaekwad-era stepwell built in 1892 as a thank-you gift to Vadodara. Over three months, a thousand volunteers emptied it of nine hundred tonnes of silt and waste and returned it to the city. It is the largest project Team Ramdoot Restores has taken on.
Our Approach to This Project
No excavator can reach inside a stepwell. Everything came up the same steps it went down, one bucket line at a time, and was sorted at the surface into waste, silt and any stone fragment worth keeping. The work ran in three stages, down to the original floor. Nothing was rebuilt. It was uncovered.
Once the silt column was lifted, the shaft recharged and water returned. Volunteers also rescued four endangered Indian softshell turtles alive from the lowest chamber and handed them to the government animal rescue department.
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Our missions
To restore temples not just as monuments, but as living centers of faith and culture. We aim to document, conserve, and revive forgotten heritage — one sacred site at a time.
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