Heart-warming gesture! PM Modi sends 100 pairs of jute footwear for Kashi Vishwanath staff
These include priests, people performing Seva, sanitation workers, security guards, and others.
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In a heartwarming gesture, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sent 100 pairs of jute footwear for workers at the Kashi Vishwanath Dham in Varanasi after finding out that most of them worked bare-foot as it is forbidden to wear leather or rubber footwear in temple premises.
According to the local media house, during his visit to Varanasi to inaugurate the Kashi Vishwanath corridor, PM Modi learned that most people working at the temple performed their duty bare-footed because it is forbidden to wear footwear made of leather or rubber in the temple premises.
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Following that, he immediately got 100 pairs of jute footwear procured and sent over to Kashi Vishwanath Dham. He took this step so that those performing their duties don’t have to remain bare-footed in the cold weather. These include priests, people performing Seva, sanitation workers, security guards, and others.
Varanasi, UP | PM Narendra Modi sends 100 pairs of jute footwear for the workers at 'Kashi Vishwanath Dham' after finding out that most of them worked bare-footed because it is forbidden to wear leather or rubber footwear in the temple premises: GoI sources pic.twitter.com/BawTJQHYUP
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The people working at Kashi Vishwanath Dham were very happy with the gesture, said the people aware of the developments."Needless to say, the people working at Kashi Vishwanath Dham were very happy. This is yet another example of PM’s attention to minute details and his concern for the poor, " he said.
During his two-day visit to Varanasi last month, the prime minister showered flower petals on workers who were constructing the Kashi Vishwanath Corridor and later had lunch with them.
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