88-room dharamshala to be built for Khajrana devotees

Indore: A main gate costing Rs 4 crore and a dharamshala of 88 rooms for devotees will be constructed on Khajrana Ganesh temple premises.

The decision was taken on Monday during a meeting of the temple management committee. The committee administrator Indore Municipal Corporation commissioner Asheesh Singh also instructed its manager Prakash Dubey to start live darshan of Khajrana Ganesh on social media platform – YouTube – and launch its own website within a week.

The committee finalized a design of the proposed main gate in front of the government school. The dharmshala will be extended to a six floors in near future. Chief minister Kamal Nath is being approached to lay foundation stone for the construction work.

The committee also decided to decorate the temple with dynamic lights, which is being installed at Rajwada and Gopal temple and repair leaky roof of the temple. A shed near prasad shops will be erected to save devotees from rain and sunrays. The committee will approach district collector to provide a one and a half acre land on MR 9 to develop an old-age home.

Cement-concrete structures on the lines of stepwise structure constructed for devotees in sanctum sanctorum of Mahakaleshwar temple will also be built at Khajrana temple. Initially, wooden ramps will be erected. They will be later converted into cement-concrete structures. Crowd control system, too, will be improved with the help of CCTVs, deployment of female guards, use of loudspeakers and other tools on special days.

During the meet, the commissioner urged priests not to claim any right on the money donated by devotees. “We give Rs 2 lakh for your salary, then why don’t you tell devotees to drop money in donation boxes,” the commissioner said.

The priests told the commissioner that devotees willingly give them money to perform pooja.