HYDERABAD, INDIA, May 20, 2002: Coinciding with the birth anniversary of saint-poet Annamacharya, a temple-cum-auditorium complex, Annamacharya Sadanam, will be inaugurated by chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on May 24 at Madhapur. The complex, which is part of the Annamacharya Bhavana Vahini (ABV) project, a spiritual and cultural organization, will be used for training singers in music along with training in yoga, meditation, naturopathy, philosophy and Sanskrit. Addressing reporters on Saturday, ABV founder president Dr Shobha Raju said the first phase of the complex was completed at an estimated cost of US$2.5 million The land for the project was leased by the state government to the ABV in 1998 for propagating devotional music, she said.
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