About 75,000 people can have easy darshan...160 pillars on ground floor: Nripendra Misra on Ram Temple construction in Ayodhya
Ram Temple in Ayodhya will be completed by December next year with the first phase getting completed in the next three months, Chairman of Ayodhya Ram Mandir Construction Committee Nripendra Misra has said and noted that there are 160 pillars on the ground floor and each pillar has 25 iconographical works of different forms.
In an interview with ANI, Misra said that 70,000-75,000 people can have easy darshan if the temple is open for 12 hours.
He said money for temple construction is coming from the people and there is no government involvement and about Rs 3,500 crore has been collected through donations.
«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 said.
Misra said they worked on design and engineering to ensure the longevity of the temple structure.
«We do have faith that very soon the temple will be a reality in December 2023 and a final temple of both the ground floor, the first floor, and the second floor will be complete by December 2024,» he said.
«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.
