Ministers pray for welfare of girls, farmers in State
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Home Minister M. Sucharita on Saturday night visited the Kanaka Durga temple for darshan of the presiding deity in Mahishasura Mardini avataram. The deity was adorned as Durga Devi from 5 a.m. to 12 p.m. and appeared in the Mahishasura Mardini avataram from 2 p.m. to eight p.m.
Speaking to mediapersons later, the Home Minister mentioned apart from the welfare of the individuals in the State, she had prayed to the Goddess for safety of girls, that they need to develop into conscious of their rights by means of legal guidelines resembling Disha Act and that the crimes towards girls ought to come down.
Agriculture Minister Kurasala Kannababu mentioned he had sought the deity’s blessings for farmers’ prosperity and mentioned that the Chief Minister wished to scale-up fund allocation for improvement of temples in the State.
Minister for Social Welfare P. Viswarup, MLAs Malladi Vishnu and V. Rajani had been amongst different officers who visited the temple and provided prayers. DGP D. Gautam Sawang additionally visited the temple and inspected the place the place boulders had rolled down from the hillock, inflicting accidents to a few individuals.
Fillip to Vedic faculties
At a Veda Sabha held in the Maha Mandapam, Department of Endowments Commissioner P. Arjun Rao mentioned the federal government was considering steps to advertise Vedic faculties and encourage kids finding out in them. There was a proposal to copy the syllabus of the Vedic establishments run by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams in all such faculties throughout the State.
Principal Secretary to the federal government M. Girija Shankar mentioned monks had been the spine of Devasthanams and their welfare was vital.
Sri Durga Malleswara Swamy Varla Devasthanam Executive Officer Suresh Babu mentioned felicitating Vedic monks throughout Dasara festivities was a 30-year-old custom in the temple. He urged the official to improve the posts of the Vedic monks who had been working as junior assistants in temples.
Fifty senior monks drawn from outstanding temples in the State, together with Annavaram, Srisailam, Amaravati, Simhachalam and Kanaka Durga Devasthanam had been felicitated on the event and 18 of them had been from Sri Durga Malleswara Devasthanam.
Each of them was given a money incentive of ₹4,000 and prasadam and honoured with a scarf.
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