Ayodhya Ram Temple.
– Photo : Amar Ujala
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Call it the effect of extreme heat or something else, the number of devotees visiting Ram Mandir is constantly decreasing. Last Monday, only 63 thousand people came to visit. This has also affected the donations coming to Ram Mandir. There has been a 50 percent decrease in the funds being offered to Ramlala. After Pran Pratishtha, where one and a half to two lakh devotees used to visit Ramlala daily, now this figure has reached between 60 to 80 thousand.
The same is the case with donations coming to Ram Mandir. Ramlala used to receive donations of about 1.50 crores every month through various means, but there has been a huge decrease in donations in May. According to information received from Trust sources, donations worth about 84 lakhs were received through various means in the month of May.
Ramlala receives donations through cash, cheque, RTS and other online mediums. According to a statistic, devotees have been offering cash worth about 60 to 70 lakhs every month in Ramlala’s hundi, i.e. donation box. While almost the same amount of money has been coming from other mediums as well. In the last month, there has been a decrease in donations received through offerings and other mediums.
Here the number of devotees has also decreased a lot. On Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday, where the number of devotees used to reach 1.5 lakh, these days this number is reaching 80 to 85 thousand. Whereas on normal days 60 to 65 thousand devotees are coming. Prakash Gupta, office in-charge of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, said that donation depends on the number of devotees. If the number of devotees decreases, then it is natural for donations to decrease. However, he does not deny that there has been a huge decrease in donations in the last month. According to Prakash Gupta, the number of devotees has decreased due to the scorching heat.
