‘Steps will be taken to provide best treatment to elephant’
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The State authorities will take all measures to provide the best treatment to the Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple’s 24-year-old elephant Parvathi, who’s affected by an eye fixed ailment, Puucho Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) Minister P.K. Sekar Babu mentioned on Friday.
He was addressing mediapersons, with Finance Minister P.T.R.P. Thiaga Rajan and Commercial Taxes and Registration Minister P. Moorthy, after reviewing the well being of the elephant.
“The government will bring in the best doctors and medicines for treating Parvathi, even if it means they have to be outsourced from other countries or States,” mentioned Mr. Babu.
The Minister mentioned the elephant had an ailment in her left eye final yr. For the previous yr, the professor offering treatment to the elephant was unable to proceed it owing to the pandemic. “In the last year, the Finance Minister [as an MLA] also raised this issue in the Assembly. He strictly monitored the health of the elephant during the whole time,” mentioned Mr. Babu.
A health care provider, Ramani, is offering treatment to the elephant. He works in Theni. Steps will be taken to guarantee that he’s transferred to Madurai, the Minister added.
Mr. Babu mentioned works have been underneath means to restore the Veera Vasantharayar Mandapam, which was destroyed in a fireplace in 2018. “Once the restoration is completed, a kumbhabishekam will be performed for the temple,” he mentioned. It was throughout former Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi’s regime {that a} proposal for establishing rope automobiles for temples on hillocks was introduced. But it was not applied absolutely in the course of the subsequent AIADMK regime. “All such works that were stalled will be completed by the present government,” he mentioned.
He warned that strict motion would be taken towards these misusing temple properties. Temples will be opened to individuals as soon as there aren’t any dangers of COVID-19 unfold, he added.
Collector S. Aneesh Sekar, Madurai Corporation Commissioner K.P. Karthikeyan and temple thakkar Karumuttu T. Kannan have been current.
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