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Devotees successful Salem urged the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) Department to unfastened the matrimony hallway constructed connected the onshore belonging to the Sri Sugavaneswarar Temple.
The Salem Sugavaneswarar Temple, 1 of the important temples successful the district, attracts thousands of devotees. During auspicious days, implicit 100 marriages instrumentality spot successful the temple. Due to abstraction constraint, devotees demanded a matrimony hall, arsenic the temple ain lands successful assorted places of the city.
Based connected the demand, the HR&CE Department identified the onshore astatine Dr. Subbarayan Road and constructed a matrimony hall. It was inaugurated connected June 18, 2025, by erstwhile Chief Minister M.K. Stalin. While 1 twelvemonth has passed, the hallway is yet to beryllium opened for nationalist use.
Devotee and the Salem territory Janata Dal (Secular) president G. Velayudham said the operation of the hallway started successful the AIADMK authorities and was completed successful the DMK regime. Multiple petitions person been submitted to the officials to unfastened the hall, but nary enactment has been taken. Mr. Velayudhan said that an authoritative claimed that immoderate enactment was pending. But erstwhile helium visited the hall, each works were completed. “The caller authorities should instrumentality contiguous steps to unfastened the matrimony hallway and found a minimum rent for its use,” helium added.
Social activistic N. Gnanavel said taxis inhabit the abstraction successful beforehand of the matrimony hallway for parking and children are playing wrong the hall’s premises. He emphasised that earlier radical inhabit the premises to prosecute successful anti-social elements, the authorities should unfastened it for nationalist use. “If this hallway opens, it volition beryllium 1 of the large matrimony halls successful the city, and radical volition throng for booking, which volition summation the gross of the temple,” helium added.
Salem HR&CE officials said that an exertion was fixed to get caller energy transportation for the hall. To hole the rent, a record was sent to the higher officials and are waiting for the reply. Some further enactment is besides ongoing, the authoritative said, adding that the hallway volition beryllium opened wrong a month.
