The conducted tour is heavily patronised throughout the year by visitors to the city both from other districts in Maharashtra as also from other parts of the country. During vacations, the PMT deploys two or three such sight-seeing luxury buses.

The tour begins at Deccan Gymkhana bus station at 9 a.m. and collects additional passengers at Pune railway station. It is a day-long tour lasting about seven hours. Booking can be done both at Deccan Gymkhana and the PMT bus station in front of the railway station.

A guide accompanying tourists will conduct them round the memorial and explain to them its unique features.

The memorial has already been attracting a large number of citizens throughout the day. Gates are open every day from 9 a.m. to 9p.m. On Saturday evenings, the 50-foot tall cherry brown granite column of the memorial is lit in tricolour -- a feast to the eye.

Meanwhile, General VP Malik, Chief of the Army Staff, will lay a wreath at the memorial during his visit on September 9. He thus initiates a new convention for defence and civilian senior officials visiting Pune to make a pilgrimage to the memorial site and lay a wreath in honour of the 1,080 officers and men from the three wings of the armed forces, hailing from Maharashtra, who laid down their life in defence of the country since Independence and whose names have been inscribed in marble at the memorial.