Ram Temple To Open To Devotees In January 2024, Work On Sanctum Sanctorum Underway: Trust

The 50 percent work of temple construction has been completed and work progress is satisfactory, according to the trust.

Labourers work on stone blocks at the under-construction site for a temple to Ram in Ayodhya (Source: File photo/AFP)

New Delhi: The member of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, which is constructing the Ram temple in Ayodhya, has said that the temple will be open to devotees in January 2024 after the installation of idols of Ram Lalla, as reported by the news agency PTI. The 50 percent work of the temple construction has been completed and work progress is satisfactory, according to the trust. The trust on Tuesday, a day after Diwali, allowed the media to visit the place from where the progress of the temple construction could be reviewed.

Trust's general secretary Champat Rai told reporters, "40 per cent of the main temple and 50 per cent of work in the complex overall has been completed. We are satisfied with the progress and quality of construction work."

During the visit, reporters were also taken to the place from where Prime Minister Narendra Modi had taken stock of the construction work of the temple last Saturday.

Rai said that Rs 1800 crore is estimated to be spent on the construction of the temple. 

"An estimated Rs 1,800 crore will be spent on building the Ram temple," Rai said, adding that space will be made for idols of prominent Hindu seers.

He said that the first floor of the temple would be ready by December 2023. He said that after that on Makar Sankranti on January 14, 2024, the idols of Lord Rama would be consecrated in the temple and it would be opened for devotees.

He stated that the trust has also decided to earmark a place for installing the idols of prominent saints and saints in the temple premises.

(With PTI Inputs)