Rs 1800 crore will be spent on building the Ram temple in Ayodhya, says Trust

New Delhi: Champat Rai, general secretary of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust on Sunday said that a sum of  ₹1800 crore will be spent on building the Ram temple in Ayodhya according to a revised estimate.

He said this to the media after the meeting in the temple town on Sunday evening.

The trust also finalised its rules and regulations after the meeting presided over by Nripendra Misra, chairman of the Ram temple construction committee.

Talking about the construction, Rai said  after several revisions, the trust have reached this estimate, and this might even go up.

According to the Trust, they have also decided to use white marble in construction of the idol of Lord Ram.

Also, the trust has informed that idols of several other deities of the Ramayan era will also be kept at the Ram temple.

Champat Rai had said that Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust have been working on the rules and regulations for the past several months and now it has been finalised.

According to the reports, it is said that the construction work of the the Ram temple is expected to be completed by December 2023 and Lord Ram is expected to be seated in the sanctum sanctorum by the Makar Sankranti festival in January 2024.

He also informed that around 14 of the 15 trust members had attended the meeting.