LG, top brass of Admn to attend
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 11: Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, G Kishan Reddy will lay foundation stone of Tirupati Balaji temple at Sidhra on outskirts of Jammu City and hold high-level security review meeting with top brass of civil and police administration here on June 13.
Reddy will be joined here in foundation stone laying ceremony and security review meeting by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha.
BJP UT president Ravinder Raina will also attend the foundation stone laying ceremony.
Sources told the Excelsior that after foundation ceremony, the Minister of State for Home will hold high-level review of security situation in Jammu and Kashmir with the Lieutenant Governor and top brass of civil and police administration here.
Sources said security situation including anti-militancy operations and ceasefire on the Line of Control (LoC) and International Border (IB) will come up for high-level review in the meeting.
This will be the first high-level review of security situation in Jammu in the past several months as due to Assembly elections in five States/Union Territories followed by second wave of COVID, the senior functionaries of the Union Home Ministry couldn’t visit Jammu and Kashmir.
Besides the Lieutenant Governor, senior officers of civil and police administration and paramilitary forces will also attend the security review meetings.
However, no meeting of the Union Minister of State for Home is scheduled with the senior BJP leaders separately. But the BJP president Ravinder Raina is likely to attend the foundation stone laying ceremony of the temple at Sidhra.
The religious tourism in Jammu will get a boost with the construction of temple. The Jammu and Kashmir administration had recently allotted 25 hectares (about 62 acres i.e. 2.5 lakh square meters) of land to Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) in Jammu for construction of temple and development of other facilities.
The temple management has made full preparations to build the temple on the land allotted by the Government and work will begin on a war-footing. Tirumala will build Tirupati Devasthanam Temple, Veda Pathshala, Spiritual Center, residential facility and parking on the land.
It is also proposed to build health and education facilities on this land in the coming days. TTD will build the temple in two years along with the Vedic school and hospital.
After the construction of the temple, devotees of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi are likely to visit Tirupati Balaji temple, giving further boost to religious tourism.
The Administrative Council on April 1 had approved the proposal to allot 496 Kanals and 17 Marlas of land to the Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanams (TTD) for building of Temple and its allied infrastructures, Pilgrim amenities Complex, Vedapatasala, Spiritual/Meditation Centre, Office, Residential Quarters and Parking; on lease basis for a period of 40 years.
Once developed, the TTD infrastructure will be an attraction for the religious pilgrims and tourists in addition to the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine and Amarnathji Shrine. It will enable tourists to come and stay longer in Jammu city. The future development on the campus will also contribute to economic growth of the region.
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