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The ‘tirupani’ (renovation work) astatine the world-famous Sri Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple successful Madurai is progressing astatine a brisk pace, with astir 90% of the large renovation tasks nearing completion up of the upcoming ‘kumbabhishekam’.
A elder authoritative from the HR&CE Department told The Hindu connected Monday (January 19, 2026) that aft the Tamil Nadu authorities gave its support for the continuance of the aforesaid office-bearers, led by a Board of Trustees whose chairperson is Rukmini Palanivelrajan, the ‘tirupani’ was reviewed astatine a meeting.
The astir challenging work, arsenic portion of the renovation, was the rebuilding of the historical Veera Vasantha Rayar Mandapam, which was destroyed successful a occurrence successful February 2018. The harm was truthful extended that shops were gutted, pillars destroyed, and the extortion tiles had to beryllium replaced. The officials, successful consultation with technocrats from IIT, Madras, had procured granite pillars, and truthful far, 41 of them person been installed. “This was a large task. Getting pillars of the aforesaid size and with different identical specifications was time-consuming,” the elder authoritative said.
Likewise, the laying of astir 2.50 lakh extortion tiles is nether mode supra the Amman and Swamy Sannidhis. All the gopurams, including the 4 nine-tier towers, volition beryllium made over. Additionally, the pillars wrong the temple are being cleansed.
The temple, which has astir 50 CCTV cameras, would get different 75 cameras installed astatine antithetic locations for information and information purposes.
Apart from the enactment nether mode up of the ‘kumbabhishekam’, the officials said that they person enhanced the process of cleaning astatine nighttime astir the temple. For the archetypal time, the parking slot astatine the Ezhu Kadal commercialized complex, which belongs to the temple, was auctioned publicly.
The commercialized analyzable astatine Ellis Nagar has been upgraded to three-phase electricity. Steps are being taken to marque bully usage of the temple properties successful Ponmeni and different locations successful Madurai city. The temple has appointed six guides, and the grooming of archakars and oduvars has resumed.
The ‘madapalli’ (kitchen) volition beryllium fixed a facelift by replacing the aged strategy of utilizing wood for cooking purposes with an eco-friendly facility.
Thanking Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, HR&CE Minister P.K. Sekar Babu, and Ministers P. Moorthy and Palanivel Thiaga Rajan for extending their enactment successful carrying retired the ‘tirupani’, the trustees said that they were assured of completing the remaining 10% of the enactment soon, successful accordance with the ‘agama’ sastra.
