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After years of waiting, enactment connected a memorial for Guru Nitya Chaitanya Yati, eminent Indian philosopher, is yet acceptable to statesman astatine his autochthonal village, nestled connected the foothills of the Western Ghats.
The Aruvapulam grama panchayat successful Pathanamthitta has bought 97 cents of onshore astatine Mlanthadam, his birthplace, to acceptable up a memorial and survey centre successful his name. The panchayat has utilised the prize wealth it received for winning the Swaraj Trophy instituted by the State authorities for the champion grama panchayat successful Kerala to bargain the land.
The ownership documents were officially handed implicit astatine a little ceremonial held astatine the Vidyanikethan Ashram, founded by Guru Nitya Chaitanya Yati, connected Tuesday (October 28, 2025). Several of his disciples, who person arrived from overseas to commemorate his commencement day that falls connected November 2, attended the event.
C.P. Mohanan Nair, who sold the onshore for the task astatine a reduced price, was besides felicitated connected the occasion.
According to Aruvapulam panchayat president Reshma Mariyam Roy, the connection for the memorial astatine Mlanthadam was archetypal raised by the section SNDP Union during the Nava Kerala Sadas held successful Konni successful December 2023. “The hunt for a suitable tract took time, arsenic we explored respective locations, including Vakayar and V. Kottayam, earlier finalising this plot,” she said.
The State authorities has sanctioned ₹7 crore for the archetypal signifier of the project, which volition beryllium implemented done the Tourism department, Ms. Roy added.
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Confirming the development, Konni MLA K.U. Janeesh Kumar said the task outgo is estimated to beryllium astir ₹50 crore. “Key components of the memorial volition see a library, open-air auditorium, seminar halls,, among others. Once the maestro program is finalised and method authorisation secured, enactment volition statesman without delay,” helium said.
Officials said the Tourism section has already engaged a consultancy to hole the maestro plan. A onshore survey for the task has been completed. In summation to the memorial, authorities are considering integrating different sites associated with his beingness specified arsenic the schoolhouse wherever helium had his superior acquisition and Rakshasan Para, a stone enactment connected the wood fringes of Pathanamthitta that helium frequented, with the memorial.
Guru Nitya Chaitanya Yati, a student of Advaita doctrine and the teachings of Sree Narayana Guru, was calved astatine Mlanthadam connected November 2, 1924 arsenic the eldest lad of Raghava Panicker and Vamakshiyamma. A teacher successful respective overseas universities, helium was besides actively progressive successful an ecological conservation question successful his location colony during the 1990s.
