Space crunch at Amma Mandapam poses inconvenience to pilgrims

Pilgrims visiting Amma Mandapam successful Srirangam are experiencing acute shortage of abstraction to execute puja.

The bathing ghat, situated connected the bluish banks of the Cauvery, is considered a beatified spot to execute obsequies to ancestor. It attracts a ample fig of devotees from antithetic parts of Tamil Nadu and bluish States. The bathing ghat, which utilized to pull crowds connected Amavasya (new moon), gets pilgrims connected weekdays and weekends too.

The mandapam, which is owned by Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple nether the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department, has facilities to execute puja. While pilgrims connection supplication connected the barricaded banks of the Cauvery, purohithars transportation retired rituals for their clients. According to sources, determination are astir 100 purohithars, who run astatine the mandapam. Their fig has seen an summation successful caller years owed to the crisp emergence successful devotees.

On Amavasya, sources say, it attracts astatine slightest 10,000 radical and astatine slightest 3,000 to 5,000 pilgrims connected weekends. However, the existing facilities are insufficient to cater to their needs. There are purohithars, who bash not person abstraction successful the sheds, run connected the unfastened platforms. The pilgrims person to hold for their crook to execute puja with the purohithar.

The bathing ghat was built astir 40 years ago. The 40-foot bathing ghat looks beardown inactive now. But the pilgrims accidental that the magnitude of it and the facilities are highly insufficient.

“We find it hard to find abstraction to execute pujas astatine the mandapam and the bathing ghat. It is clip to grow the bathing ghat with much facilities,” says M. Guhanathan of Manapparai, who visited Amma Mandapam to execute pujas for their forefathers recently.

Jayakumar, a prohithar, said determination was a connection to make Amma Mandapam nether Nadanthai Vazhi Kaveri strategy with backing from the Central and State governments. The Water Resources Department had projected to make facilities including thithi mandapam, caput tonsuring centre and sanitation complex. The proposal, mooted astir 4 years ago, had not seen airy truthful far. If determination were issues successful executing the plan, the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment oregon Tiruchi Corporation should travel retired with a program to make the facilities astatine Amma Mandapam immediately.