AYODHYA, INDIA, July 10, 2023 (Indian Express): 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 statue will be installed during a grand function to mark the pran prathistha (consecration ceremony of the Deity) in January next year.

It will take nearly one-and-a-half years to complete the three-storey building and the parkota (outer wall of the complex), 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. “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 the 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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