“75,000 devotees can have darshan..”: Ayodhya Ram Mandir construction body
Donations totaling roughly Rs 3,500 crore have been made completely by civilians to fund the construction of temple without the involvement of the government.
According to Nripendra Misra, chairman of the Ayodhya Ram Mandir Construction Committee, the recently erected Ram Temple in Ayodhya can hold 70,000–75,000 visitors for darshan if the temple is open for 12 hours.
Nripendra Misra, the chairman of the Ayodhya Ram Mandir Construction Committee, noted that there are 160 pillars on the ground floor, each of which has 25 iconographic works in various forms, and that the construction of a grand Ram Temple in Ayodhya will be finished by December of next year with the first phase being completed in the upcoming three months. According to what he indicated, donations totalling roughly Rs 3,500 crore have been made completely by civilians to fund the construction of temple without the involvement of the government.
“Our present estimates are that with some bit of easy flow, of devotees, about 70,000-75,000 people can go in a span of about 12 hours. If the temple is open for 12 hours, about 75,000 people can have easy darshan, which means roughly a devotee will be able to stand before the deity for about a minute, not more than that. If there is a crowd of 1.25 lakhs, which we are expecting in the early days then the period for darshan would be reduced to about 20 seconds,” he claimed.
To assure the durability of the temple structure, according to Misra, they worked on design and engineering.
“We do have faith that very soon the temple will become a reality in December 2023 and a final temple of both the ground floor, the first floor, and the second floor will be completed by December 2024,” he stated.
Building of Ram Mandir will have guidance of 5 IITs
Misra also emphasised the carefully thought-out engineering and design that went into the temple in order to assure its durability.
“All those who are associated with Lord Ram, Ayodhya, the temple, with the features of an ancient temple in India have this expectation that it must have a life of thousand years…The first challenge was that there was no written engineering detail of how these temples were constructed. So we had to evolve the engineering details, the design and the drawing, the mix of material to be used, on the process of knowledge, which today exists. We identified 5 IITs chosen to become the advisers for the construction,” he said.
According to Misra, the diety would be set up in the temple’s sanctum sanctorum.
“People want to know when would the temple be completed, their dream have come true. The temple is a reality. The temple will be completed in two parts, the first past- Phase 1 will be completed by December 2023. The first part will be the ground floor of the temple which is about 2.6 acres of land. The ground floor has five mandaps, starting with the sanctum-sanctorum, where the deity would be installed…
There are 160 pillars on the ground floor, and each pillar has 25 iconographical works of different forms. The work on the lower plinth, which tells Ram Khatha, that is based on carving on the stone, and it is taken from Valmiki Ramayan, about 50 per cent of that would be completed,” he added.
‘Ram Mandir- gem of Indian civilisation, according to PM Modi’: Mishra
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s keen interest in the development of the Ram Temple construction was made known by Nripendra Misra. He said, “PM Modi believes that this temple must become a reality because he sees this as a part of his cultural evolution of this country. He sees this as a part of a treasure of the civilization of this country, of the faith of this country. It was his expectation that the communities would dissolve between themselves, amongst themselves, and a temple would come out and he, obviously, was extremely satisfied when the judicial pronouncement came.”
Under the direction of the Shri Ram Janma Bhoomi Tirtha Kshetra Trust, which was founded by the Centre in response to the Supreme Court’s crucial ruling on the Ayodhya issue in 2019, the construction of the Ram Temple, a historic initiative, has been progressing gradually.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the cornerstone for this enormous project on August 5, 2020, which was a key turning point in the accomplishment of this treasured dream.
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