Ram Temple work picks up pace: 1,600 workers, 24×7 shifts
It’s only the flooring and electrical works that remain to be done on the complex's ground floor housing the sanctum sanctorum (garbha griha) where Lord Ram’s idol will be installed during a grand function to mark the ‘pran prathistha’ (consecration ceremony of the deity) in January next year.
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At the Ram Temple construction site on Ayodhya on Sunday. (Express photo by Vishal Srivastav) The work on the Ram Temple in Ayodhya has gathered pace in recent weeks with the management of the trust tasked with the job increasing the number of workers to 1,600 from 550 to ensure that the shrine can be thrown open for devotees in January 2024.
Work, which was earlier being done in 18-hour shifts, is now being carried out round the clock.
It’s only the flooring and electrical works that remain to be done on the complex’s ground floor housing the sanctum sanctorum (garbha griha) where Lord Ram’s idol will be installed during a grand function to mark the ‘pran prathistha’ (consecration ceremony of the deity) in January next year.
Jagdish Aphale, project manager of the Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra, a trust set up by the Centre to build the temple, told The Indian Express that both the ground and first floors of the temple will be completed by January.
“Right now, our priority is to complete the ground floor by December and make it ready for ‘pran pratistha’. The work on the first floor too started on July 1 and its key structures, including slabs and pillars, will be completed by January so that devotees can visit the shrine. But entry will not be allowed on the first floor till March 2024 as work will not be complete there by then.”
It will take nearly one-and-a-half years to complete the three-storey building and the ‘parkota’ (outer wall of the complex), Aphale said.
“Rain disrupts the work on ‘parkota’ sometimes. But indoor works continue without fail even when it rains. The work has picked pace as it is being done round-the-clock. Nearly 1,200 workers, including engineers, supervising staff and daily wagers from outside Ayodhya, are working in complex,” he added.
Taking mediapersons on a tour of the high-security temple complex along with trust member Anil Mishra and the engineering team, Radhe Joshi, another project official, said that only carving-related work is stopped after sunset while other civil works continue uninterrupted.
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