Ram Mandir will be built with the donation of public only and not with government money

Mumbai, December 14: In a major development, Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust has said that it will take financial aid from Lord Rama followers and will not use government money to construct the grand temple at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh. Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Tirtha Kshetra Trust general secretary Champat Rai Ji said that the temple will be built only with the voluntary cooperation of crores of Lord Rama devotees.

 

 

The public relations campaign to collect funds will start from Makar Sankranti in collaboration with Vishwa Hindu Parishad and will continue till Magha Purnima. Rai claimed that each and every corner of the country will be covered as part of the campaign and the volunteers will visit from Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Andaman and Nicobar, Rann of Kutch to Tripura to collect funds from Lord Rama devotees.

 

Champat Rai Ji said, "Transparency in economic matters is very necessary. To maintain transparency we have receipts/coupons of ten rupees, hundred rupees. Workers will give coupons or receipts for transparency when society volunteers. The picture of the Lord's temple will reach millions of homes. This will start from Makar Sankranti onwards and will be completed by Magha Purnima.

 

"The Trust's bank account was created in March after the Supreme Court's decision. People have already started supporting this account. 1,000 to 1,200 transactions are happening every day. In the same way, people will definitely contribute their squirrel through these wells, they expressed such belief," he said.

 

 

Rai Ji also informed that Ashok Sinhal came to Mumbai and spoke to LNT officials. With preparations underway for the long-awaited Ram temple in Ayodhya, construction giant Larsen and Toubro (L&T) has offered to carry out the design and construction of the temple. Tata Consultant Engineers are chosen to advise them. The responsibility of the temple architecture rests with Chandrakant Bhai Sompura of Ahmedabad who is associated with the construction of the temple since 1979. Sompura's grandfather had built the Somnath temple. He has built many temples of Swami Narayan tradition.

 

 

Rai Ji said that it is his specialty to build temples with stones. "Right now the idea is on how to build stones on a strong foundation on the land of Ayodhya. He expressed the hope that the temple will be built in the next three years," he said. The entire temple is of stones, the height of each floor is 20 feet, the length of the temple is 360 feet and the width is 235 feet. The ground floor of the temple will be 16.5 feet high. Engineers at IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Chennai, and IIT Guwahati, CBRI Roorkee, Larsen Toubro, and Tata are consulting on the drawing of the foundation. The format of the foundation will come out very soon.

 

He also informed that there is a plan to create awareness about the truths of the history of this temple among the present generation of India. He said that at least half the population of the country should be made aware of the historical truth of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi temple.

 

Rai Ji said the fight for the constructing the temple in Ayodhya took place to acquire the birthplace of Lord Shri Ram. Society considers that place to be the birthplace of God. The temple was there earlier. However, it was an insult to the nation when the foreign aggressors destroyed the temple. In order to restore the nation's respect, we are building the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Temple. It was also fought to protect the honor of the country. In order to do so, society struggled for 500 years. Eventually, everyone understood the feelings of society. The Supreme Court, too, accepted the truths of history related to Shri Ram Janmabhoomi temple and directed the Government of India to declare a trust for Ram Janmabhoomi which the government followed it.

 

The trust announced in the name of "Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Tirtha Kshetra". Prime Minister Narendra Modi also accelerated the process of construction of the temple by worshiping and performing Bhoomi Pujan in Ayodhya on 5 August.