Meenakshi temple to offer free laddus to devotees
13/09/2019, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ,MADURAI
The Meenakshi Sundareswarar temple will soon begin distributing free laddus to devotees. The temple authorities have proposed to start the practice from Deepavali.
“We are planning to distribute small laddus to all devotees after their darshan,” said the temple Thakkar, Karumuttu T. Kannan.
The temple has already procured a machine at a cost of ₹5 lakh to make laddus, its joint commissioner Natarajan said.
500 an hour
The machine can make at least 500 laddus an hour, Mr. Kannan said.
“The Meenakshi Sundareswarar temple is the first temple in the State to make prasadam on its own, without any outsourcing,” he said.
“We started it more than a decade ago and the price of the prasadam has not been revised since then,” he added.
13/09/2019, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ,MADURAI
The Meenakshi Sundareswarar temple will soon begin distributing free laddus to devotees. The temple authorities have proposed to start the practice from Deepavali.
“We are planning to distribute small laddus to all devotees after their darshan,” said the temple Thakkar, Karumuttu T. Kannan.
The temple has already procured a machine at a cost of ₹5 lakh to make laddus, its joint commissioner Natarajan said.
500 an hour
The machine can make at least 500 laddus an hour, Mr. Kannan said.
“The Meenakshi Sundareswarar temple is the first temple in the State to make prasadam on its own, without any outsourcing,” he said.
“We started it more than a decade ago and the price of the prasadam has not been revised since then,” he added.
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