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Businessman offers Rs 500 Crore to Kerala temple as a thanksgiving

Shri Gana Shravan of Gana Shravan (SwaamyG) Companies has offered Rs 500 crore to Chottanikkara Bhagavathi Temple. According to Shri Gana Shravan, he decided to make the huge donation as he received many fortunes in life and business after he started visiting the temple regularly. 

The proposal to reconstruct the temple with architectural marvel, as well as develop the surroundings into a temple city, has already been submitted to the temple authorities almost a year ago. However, the projects awaits the approval from the High Court. As per norms, any development works above Rs 20 lakh funds require the nod of a Devaswom bench of HC as the Chottanikkara temple is administered by the Cohin Devaswom Board.

Shri Gana Shravan has already informed the Devaswom board that the company would like to directly utilise the money and supervise the onstruction works rather than giving the cash.

 The massive project includes a ring road around the temple, east and west facing gopurams, a sewage treatment plant, renovation of parking grounds, new annadana mandapam (feeding hall), renovation of Onakuttichira Temple, and construction of a guest house. Rs 300 crore will be set aside for this, and Rs 200 crores will be utilised for city development, a report said.

 The Devaswom Board secretary V A Sheeja said that the board was yet to take a final decision on the matter and it was pending legal opinion.

 The 46-year-old business man told media that he was mainly into gold, diamond, and rare metals trading by associating with a Mumbai-based firm and was also setting up a jewel shop at Bengaluru. As per a report in Deccan Herald, Shravan said that he is a native of Chikkaballapur district and was basically in the music field for nearly 20 years. But there was not much fortune in his life. Four years back he visited the Chottanikkara temple as advised by his guru and thereafter he got much fortune in business.