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About 8,107.03 acres of onshore that belonged to 1,055 temples, whose worthy was estimated at ₹8,436 crore, were retrieved from backstage encroachers during the past 5 years, the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) Department said connected Sunday.
Temple lands to the tune of 2.38 lakh acre onshore were measured utilizing a DGPS rover onshore survey, and F-line stones person been installed successful 1,50,221 locations, an authoritative merchandise said. A sum of ₹212 crore has been earmarked for the renovation money for 5,000 temples successful Adi Dravida and tribal habitations arsenic good arsenic 5,000 temples successful agrarian areas.
The installation of 3 statues of Lord Murugan, each implicit 100 feet tall, was underway in 3 temples successful the State, it said. A statue of Lord Murugan, measuring 184 feet tall, was being installed astatine the Arulmigu Subramaniyaswamy temple astatine Marudhamalai successful Coimbatore district, on with a depository and parking facilities, astatine a outgo of ₹110 crore, an authoritative merchandise said.
While 1 statue, measuring 180 feet tall, was being installed astatine the Arulmigu Velayudhaswamy temple astatine Thindal successful Erode territory astatine a outgo of ₹30 crore, different measuring 114 feet tall, was being installed astatine the Arulmigu Subramaniyaswamy temple astatine Timiri successful Ranipet territory astatine ₹6.83 crore, it said.
The merchandise listing retired the achievements of the HR&CE Department during the past 5 years said conservation and renovation of temples much than 1,000 years old, without disturbing their practice value, was undertaken successful 352 temples astatine a outgo of ₹560 crore. Kudamuzhukku was performed successful 4,332 temples wherever it was not performed for implicit 400 years, it said.
The ‘UNESCO Asia and Pacific Award for Cultural Heritage’ has been announced for the Tukkatchi Arulmigu Aabatsagayeswarar Temple successful Kumbakonam, Thanjavur district, for renovating the temple utilizing modern techniques without changing the past contented by preserving the accepted architecture, it said. It besides mentioned the construction of a Vallalar International Centre successful Vadalur at ₹99.90 crore.
