Mumbai: Starting today, you can use a prepaid card to buy prasad, idols, and pay for services at Siddhivinayak temple.
Starting today, the temple will have a prepaid card which can be used by the devotees who visit the temple on a regular basis.
One can swipe the card for various purposes like buying prasad, using the library, paying for the VIP darshan and also to buy the Ganpati idols kept on sale inside the temple premises.
This is the first temple trust in India to have a cashless card, explained Satish Mali, Assistant Executive Officer of the temple trust.
The card can be bought from the temple office for Rs 51, and can be recharged with denominations ranging from Rs 100 to Rs 5000.
Apart from prepaid cards, the temple also plans to go tech savvy in many other ways.
The trust also plans to launch e-book, apps on smartphones, through which devotees can enjoy the facility of direct online darshan.
