Devotees slam poor upkeep and lack of amenities at Ayyarmalai temple

Poor upkeep of Sri Rathnagiriswarar Temple astatine Ayyarmalai adjacent Kulithalai has irked the devotees.

The temple, situated astatine a tallness of 1,178 feet supra the crushed level, attracts a ample fig of devotees from antithetic parts of the State. It gets devotees from Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana arsenic well. To person a darshan of Lord Rathnagiriswarar devotees either person to ascent 1,017 steps oregon question by a enactment car.

But deficiency of basal infrastructure, inadequate attraction and mediocre upkeep of temple premises person drawn disapproval from the devotees. It takes astir 90 minutes for the devotees to scope the temple atop. Aged devotees instrumentality longer clip to scope the top. Since the steps are steep the devotees find it highly hard to ascent the steps.

It was aimed astatine facilitating the devotees to scope the temple easily, the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment installed a enactment car strategy a fewer years ago.Though it is serving the intent inactive now, devotees kick that the enactment car is operated lone for a constricted time. They accidental that it is operated lone betwixt 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., forcing the devotees to usage the steps to scope the temple astatine different times.

Drinking h2o is indispensable for the devotees to ascent the steps. However, determination is nary proviso for drinking h2o on the way of the hillock. There is nary sanitation installation arsenic good on the route. Except for a fewer steps from the base, astir steps person been filled with garbage, puja items, integrative bags and others, thereby indicating that determination is nary strategy successful spot for cleaning the steps regularly.

“It is astonishing that the temple medication has failed to supply drinking h2o to the devotees. The situation is dirty. We are disappointed to enactment the mediocre upkeep of the temple,” said K. Murugan, a devotee from Somarasampettai successful Tiruchi district, who visited the temple on with his household members recently.

The constricted cognition of the enactment car has not gone good among the devotees arsenic well. The work is unavailable aft 3 p.m. The devotees, who scope the temple aft 3 p.m., person to instrumentality without having the darshan of the Lord Rathnagiriswarar.

“Since we were told that the enactment car was not disposable successful the afternoon, we began climbing astatine 3 p.m. It took astir 2 hours to scope the temple. But by the clip we reached there, the temple was closed,” said a devotee from Dindigul.

He said the temple medication should instal a modular accusation board, thereby indicating the timing of darshan and the docket of enactment car operation.