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Ram Mandir's construction to cost nearly Rs 1,800 crores; likely to be completed by December 2023

Ram Mandir: Lord Ram is expected to be seated in the sanctum sanctorum by the Makar Sankranti festival in January 2024.

Edited By: Vani Mehrotra @vani_mehrotra New Delhi Published : Sep 12, 2022 7:43 IST, Updated : Dec 16, 2022 13:39 IST
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Image Source : PTI Construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya to cost Rs 1,800 crore

Highlights

  • The estimate construction cost may even go up
  • The Trust has also decided to use white marble in construction of the idol of Lord Ram
  • Idols of several other deities of the Ramayan era will also come up at the Ram temple

Ram mandir's construction will cost nearly Rs 1,800 crores. According to Champat Rai, general secretary of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, the said amount was a revised estimate of the construction cost. 

In a meeting, the Trust also finalised its rules and regulations that were presided over by Nripendra Misra, chairman of the Ram temple construction committee.

"After several revisions, we have reached this estimate. Even this might go up," Rai said about the construction cost.

The Trust has also decided to use white marble in the construction of the idol of Lord Ram.

Idols of several other deities of the Ramayan era will also come up at the Ram temple.

"Rules and regulations of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust have been finalised. We have been working on it for the past several months," Champat Rai said.

The construction of the temple is expected to be completed by December 2023 and Lord Ram is expected to be seated in the sanctum sanctorum by the Makar Sankranti festival in January 2024, Rai said.

He also said 14 of the 15 trust members attended the meeting.

(With quotes and inputs from IANS)

Also Read | More than 40 pc of Ram temple construction work complete in Ayodhya

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