Stones from Rajasthan arrive for Ram temple in Ayodhya

“From June this year, the department has started giving form 39 that allows bringing of stones from other states. It is happening because the new government in the state is dedicated to lord Ram, cow and nation,” he said.
Sharma said that arrival of sandstones would continue in the future too.

According to VHP leaders, the previous state government did not give permission to bring stones from Rajasthan after two trucks laden with 35 tonnes of pink sandstones had arrived in Ayodhya in December 2015.
The carving of stones for the proposed temple is going on under the supervision of the Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas, an organisation of VHP leaders and saints to promote and oversee the development of Ram temple.

Nyas members, in a meeting in Ayodhya in June 2015, had resolved to collect donations for the temple in form of stones instead of cash from ‘Ram bhakts’. It had also issued a nationwide appeal to devotees to donate stones for the temple.

VHP leaders said that around 1.75 lakh cubic feet of stones were required to build the temple as per its proposed design. Since 1990, around 1 lakh cubic feet of stones has been purchased. The plan is to build a 268-foot long, 140-foot wide and 128-foot high two-storey temple, topped by a shikhar (dome). Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas is headed by Nritya Gopal Das, one of the accused against whom charges were framed by a Lucknow CBI court in Babri masjid demolition case recently.