Construction of Ram Temple, built with stones and no iron, likely to enter IIT-Roorkee, CBRI syllabus

Chairman of the construction committee of the temple, Nripendra Mishra, told The Indian Express on Wednesday that as soon as he is back in Delhi, he would invite the heads of both the institutes and would discuss the signing of a “detailed agreement” with them in this regard.

He informed that five cameras were installed on the Temple premises to capture the time-lapse video footage of each day of the temple construction – right from the day of laying of foundation stone in August 2020, soil testing, different phases of construction to its completion, likely in December this year.

“The idea was to take all the possible and relevant photographs to show how the temple construction is going on,” Mishra told The Indian Express, adding, “We have decided to initiate talks with IIT Roorkee and CBRI so that they may, perhaps, make a syllabus on the technology of the temple construction, particularly of stone with no iron. It would become part of their syllabus and course for students to study.”

Asked about how the footage would be handed over, Mishra told The Indian Express, “A detailed agreement would be signed with the institutes as the footage is the intellectual property right of the temple Trust.”

The three-day Trust meeting, which concluded on Wednesday also reviewed the ongoing construction work of the temple, granite memorial for those died after having taken part in the Temple movement, development of a “Panchvati”, around 10 acres of green forest area, which can provided protective area for monkeys and birds and would have a water body as well.

It was also informed during the meeting that for the ongoing work of installation of 90 murals on the lower plinth of the temple, which would narrate the story of Lord Ram. “There murals are made up of Bansi Paharpur stone and are 90 in number. They would narrate the story of Ram and would roughly spread to about 800 running ft. These murals are roughly about 6-7 ft of height. 85 of these have arrived,” informed Mishra.

Meanwhile, officials informed that the meeting concentrated on construction of the museum in the temple premises as the discussion took place on the probable technologies to be used for around 20 galleries, which would depict the life of Lord Ram and different characters of Ramayana era through different methodology. Sources inform that it has been decided that one of the galleries, which would depict in 3D the life of Hanuman, would be developed by IIT Madras.