Temples in hilly areas to get automatic lift and rope car | Coimbatore’s Anuvavi temple to get rope car facility soon, work for automatic lift in Maruthamalai ongoing: Tamil Nadu HR&CE Minister Sekar

The Anuvavi Subramaniar temple in Coimbatore will get rope car facility soon, said Minister for Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments P. K. Sekar Babu, during his visit to the district on Sunday, August 27. Based on Chief Minister M.K Stalin’s order that rope car facility should be installed at all hill temples in the State for the convenience of devotees, the Industrial and Technical Consultancy Organization carried out a field survey at Anuvavi temple to establish a rope car facility at ₹13 crore. Work to set up a rope car and lift is in progress at Rathinagireeswarar Temple at Ayyarmalai in Karur district and Sri Lakshminarasimhar temple in Sholinghur. He added, “During the DMK regime, kudamuzhukku has been performed in 922 temples till now, which is the highest in two years, and 5,335 acres of temple lands worth ₹5,135 crore were retrieved across the State.” The Minister also visited the Lakshmi Narasimhar Temple at Ukkadam and the Pateeswarar Temple in Perur along with Collector Kranthi Kumar Pati, Corporation Commissioner M. Prathap and the district administration officials.