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The Joint Commissioner/Executive Officer of Meenakshi Sundareswar Temple has told the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court that the renovation enactment of Pudu Mandapam adjacent the temple volition beryllium completed by the extremity of this year.
Executive Officer N. Suresh filed the petition seeking hold of clip to comply with the 2024 High Court order. In July 2024, the tribunal disposed of a nationalist involvement litigation petition filed by advocator R. Manibharathi of Madurai and directed temple authorities to implicit the renovation of Pudu Mandapam successful six months.
He said the restoration enactment was a practice delicate task involving accepted techniques and humanities materials. The temple medication was committed to ensuring that the conservation enactment was done successful accordance with archaeological standards and successful consultation with experts to sphere the historical, religious, and taste value of the mandapam.
The temple has engaged the services of skilled artisans, sculptors and experts who are specially trained successful temple architecture and accepted methods. However, owed to the constricted availability of artisans and their simultaneous engagement successful Kumbabhishekam related works connected the main temple premises, determination has been an inevitable hold successful mobilisation and execution, helium said.
If the works were to beryllium rushed solely to conscionable the archetypal deadline, it could compromise the quality, authenticity, and safety. The temple authorities, being custodians of a humanities and spiritual monument, are work bound to uphold its sanctity and structural integrity. It is indispensable to transportation retired the enactment successful a structured signifier by signifier manner. It volition assistance sphere its archaeological value. Due to the quality of the enactment and processes involved, enactment could not beryllium completed earlier the extremity of 2024, helium said.
The temple authorities person taken steps to instrumentality the directions of the court. The hold is neither willful nor wanton but owed to bonafide reasons. The enactment would beryllium completed by the extremity of this year, helium said.
A Division Bench of Justices Anita Sumanth and C. Kumarappan directed the temple authorities to record a presumption study regarding the further advancement made successful the renovation enactment of Pudu Mandapam.
