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Sunday, November 8, 2020
ஏகாம்பரநாதர் கோவில் பல்லக்கில் 3 கிலோ வெள்ளி தகடு மாயம்
Family living inside temple tower finally evicted
Gokul.rajendran@timesgroup.com
Trichy:08.11.2020
Imagine an ancient, intricately carved temple rajagopuram for a roof for your house! A family has been residing inside the rajagopuram of Thopparankatti Vinayagar templein Thanjavur by converting it into a house for several decades before public protests forced the Hindu Religious & Charitable Endowment (HR&CE) department to evict them andset right a wrong they committed by permitting it.
Thopparankatti Pillaiyar temple was one of the several temples coming under the Thanjavur Big Temple administration. About 60 years ago, the administration rented out approximately 430square feet of the mandapam in the rajagopuram to a temple employee named Sabapathi Pillai through a tenancy agreement. Pillai’s son Jayaraman, 75, and his wife Shyamala, 70, were the last tenants residing in the ‘house’.
There is no trace of the temple at the place now and only Shyamala was living in what looked like a house every bit inside the rajagopuram. Legally however, the family could not have been called encroachers till January 2019 when they were handed out the eviction order by the HR & CE officials after local people raked up the matter.
“They remained tenants until the order of termination of tenancy was issued by HR&CE, after which they were considered as encroachers,” said HR&CE department advocate V Chandrasekar. Asked how temple premises could have been rented out to an individual, Chandrasekar said, “It happened nearly 60 years ago, when the temple trustees took decisions without consulting the executive officers of the temple. Now, the issue was taken up seriously and the solution was found by evicting them.”
Big Temple executive officer S Madhavan told TOI they had asked the family to vacate the place, but they stayed put. Acting on the eviction order dated October 20 from the joint commissioner of HR&CE department, Thanjavur division, G Thennarasu, a team of officials carried out the anti-encroachment drive.
Thennarasu said the door frame (Nilai) put up at the entrance of the rajagopuram as the main door of the house was removed by the tenant Shyamala herself as she was evicted.
BACK WITH HR&CE: The family, which had been living in the rajagopuram of Thopparankatti Vinayagar temple in Thanjavur for 60 years, had even built a door frame at the house’s entrance (seen in photo on left)
Saturday, October 3, 2020
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Monday, September 28, 2020
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Thursday, September 17, 2020
Online booking must for ‘Purattasi’ Saturday darshan at Srirangam temple
Online booking must for ‘Purattasi’ Saturday darshan at Srirangam temple
Move intended to ensure physical distancing, says official
16/09/2020
A file photograph of the Srirangam temple.A. MURALITHARAN
Special Correspondent TIRUCHI
Devotees who wish to visit the Srirangam Sri Ranganathaswamy temple on Saturdays during the Tamil month of ‘Purattasi’ have to make advance bookings online.
Temple authorities on Tuesday said that only devotees with online bookings would be allowed inside the temple complex for darshan on the four Saturdays during Purattasi, falling on September 19, 26 and October 3, 10.
Online bookings have to be made for both free and paid darshan. Bookings can be made on the temple website www.srirangam.org
An official release from the temple Joint Commissioner /Executive Officer P. Jayaraman said the move was intended to ensure physical distancing among devotees in view of the COVID-19 pandemic and to reduce wait times for darshan.
The temple witnesses a huge turn-out of devotees on Saturdays in Purattasi. Mr. Jayaraman appealed to the devotees to make use of the booking facility and offer worship at the specified timings on the four Saturdays.
Mahalaya Amavasya rituals banned
16/09/2020
Staff ReporterCoimbatore
As part of COVID-19 precautionary measures, the district administration has banned congregation of devotees at temples or water bodies close to temples to conduct Mahalaya Amavasya rituals on September 17.
District Collector K. Rajamani said in a release that owners of private halls near temples must get permission from the authorities before renting the premises for these occasions.
HR&CE Department officials said that the crowds are expected at Perur Patteeswarar Temple, Karamadai Aranganatha Swamy Temple and Thekkampatti Vanabadrakaliamman Temple in Coimbatore district. While the rituals are not allowed, the temples will be open for devotees with the usual COVID-19 precautionary measures.
Erode Staff Reporter adds
The Erode district administration has also banned congregation of devotees at temples and river beds on September 17. Collector C. Kathiravan, however, said that devotees can offer prayers at temples.
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