Champat Rai, General Secretary of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust has confirmed that the construction of Ram temple at the Ram Janmabhoomi site in Ayodhya will start after September 17. The constitution of the temple will begin after September 17 when the fortnight-long pitru paksha ends. Pitru paksha is the period during which Hindus express gratitude to their ancestors.
According to Rai, leading construction company Larsen and Toubro (L&T) is ready to lay the foundation of the temple. The L&T is carrying out construction without charging any fee. The Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust is overseeing the construction. According to the report, all labourers involved in the construction will be tested for coronavirus (COVID-19). The temple will be 360 feet long, 235 feet wide and 161 feet high and will have five domes.
The Supreme Court had in November last year directed the central government to hand over the site at Ayodhya, where Babari Masjid once stood, for the construction of the Ram temple and set up a trust for this.
The five-judge bench said that the Sunni Waqf Board, which was a party to the 7-decade-old title suit, should be given an alternate five-acre land at some other suitable place for construction of a mosque. Following the Supreme Court’s verdict, the Ram temple is built on the site where Babari Masjid once stood. The mosque was demolished by “karsevaks” on December 6 in 1992.
