‘Siddaramaiah might have given donation for Ram temple’

Minister in-charge of Mysuru district S.T. Somashekar on Monday claimed that former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who requested for an account of the donations collected for the Ram temple at Ayodhya, might have given donation for the temple building however is reluctant to concede the identical in public.

“He (Mr .Siddaramaiah) is making baseless allegations since he has no issues for criticising the BJP government in the State which is being adeptly run,” the Minister mentioned.

Claiming that no person was forcefully amassing donations for the Ayodhya temple as was being alleged, he mentioned the donations are being accounted for. Besides the home quantity and signature of the home proprietor, the PAN variety of the donor can be entered within the record of donors, and receipt was given. “People are voluntarily donating funds for the temple construction,” he replied, to queries from reporters. The accounts can be made public.

Lift restored

The Minister was talking after handing over the carriage-cum-lift that was restored by the Mysuru railway division for assembling the chariot of Sri Chamundeshwari Temple atop the Chamundi Hills right here.

Mysuru MP Pratap Simha and the temple chief priest Shashishekar Dixit had been current.

The century-old temple carriage-cum-lift which was used to position the idol of the Goddess on the elevated seat within the temple chariot was in dilapidated situation and the unique drawings weren’t accessible for the raise association.

The temple administration led by the Chief Priest and the Mysuru MP approached the General Manager/ South Western Railway in October final through the annual inspection and sought the railways’ assist restoring the raise.

The Central Workshop, Mysuru took up this job as a problem beneath “deposit work” and renovated the raise. Cradle lifting mechanism was supplied with locking and anti-fall association and a brand new ladder supplied with anti-skid plates and hand rail, a railway launch mentioned.

Rigidity of the construction is made thorough with further propping association and the entire unit is fantastically painted with out dropping its vintage look. The work of the heritage construction was accomplished in 45 days’ time and the temple group led by the Chief Priest inspected the identical for its easy operational necessities and expressed their satisfaction, in line with the railways.

The new manually-operated crane manufactured at Mechanical Millwright Shop of South Western Railwayweighs anyplace between 5 to 6 tonnes and is 5.5-metre excessive. It has a capability to raise 300 kg.