Kedarnath temple to get a ‘golden’ makeover.

A Mumbai based mostly businessman will fund the facelift of Kedarnath temple’s sanctum sanctorum which is ready to now be gold-plated. at present the sanctum sanctorum of 1 in every of many well-known Char Dham temple is roofed with 230 kilogram of silver.

Ajendra Ajay, chairman shri Badarinath – Kedarnath temple committee informed The Hindu that the agency which has accomplished the gold plating of sanctums of the Kashi Vishwanath and loads of temples inside the South India has been given the obligation of the changing the silver inside Kedarnath temple’s sanctum with gold plating. The silver plating of the temple was accomplished in 2017.

“we have already started eradicating silver from the sanctum of the temple. Then the copper plates might be positioned on the partitions and 4 pillars contained in the sanctum. this would possibly be accomplished to take measurements. as quickly as the measurements might be accomplished, they might substitute the identical with gold plating,” he added.

The work contained in the temple started earlier this week might be accomplished earlier than Deepawali, acknowledged the chairman who claimed that the donation of gold made by the businessman is a ‘ gupta daan’ (secret donation). The gold plating might be accomplished on partitions, pillars and on the shed ( chatra) above the deity.

The officers inside the Badri-Kedar temple committee acknowledged that the key-donor is a diamond service provider who has not shared what could be the quantity of gold he could be donating however has solely sought permission from the federal authorities to do the gold plating of the temple’s sanctum.

“His permission was authorised final month and we nonetheless don’t know what quantity of gold would go inside the obligation. round 230 kg silver has been faraway from the partitions of the sanctum so even when it can have a copper base beneath gold, we’re ready to count on that atleast half of the gold might go inside the method,” acknowledged the official who did not want to be quoted.

Renovation of the eighth century Kedarnath temple, which was on the epicentre of the disaster in 2013, is most probably going one in every of many dream initiatives of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Over 200 crore has already been collectively spent by the Uttarakhand and Central authorities on the mission that has been occurring for a decade now.

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