Mumbai / Ayodhya: An important official of the Ram Janmabhoomi Tirtha Kshetra Nyas has said that the construction work of the grand Ram temple in Ayodhya will be completed in about three years and is expected to cost more than Rs 1,100 crore. Trust treasurer Swami Govind Dev Giri Maharaj said, "The construction of the main temple will be completed in three-and-a-half years and is expected to cost Rs 300-400 crore." Development of the entire 70 acres of land is likely to cost more than Rs 1,100 crore. ''

He said that he has reached this estimate of cost after consulting with the experts associated with the Ram temple construction project. Talking to ABP Manjha Marathi TV channel, he said that the trust has not yet made any official statement on the cost of temple construction. He said, "It was possible for us (for temple construction) to collect money from some corporate. Some (corporate) families came to us, requested that the design of the temple be handed over to them and they had assured that they would complete the temple project, but I politely declined them. '' 

When asked about the criticism by some circles over the BJP's campaign for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections keeping the Ram temple construction in mind, he said, "People have eyeglasses like , They see the same. There are no spectacles on our eyes and our eyes are on the path of devotion. "He said," Our goal is to reach 6.5 lakh villages and 15 crore houses ". He will go to Mato Sri, the residence of Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, to collect donations, "I will go there if he is willing to donate." He said, "Shiv Sena leader and Maharashtra Legislative Council Deputy Chairman Neelam Gore Has given us one kilogram of silver brick. '' 

Maharaj went to Rashtrapati Bhavan last week and received a donation of Rs 5,00,100 from President Ramnath Kovind for the construction of the temple. Asked if he would also go to Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi for the construction of the temple, Maharaj said, "I am willing to do so provided that someone guarantees that I will not be insulted there." 

The Yogi government of Uttar Pradesh (CM Yogi Adityanath) has launched a new scheme to provide relief to the outstanding electricity bills of farmers and common people (UPPCLs OTS scheme). UP Power Corporation has implemented OTS (Lump Sum Solution Scheme) for domestic and tube well consumers from today on March 1. The benefit of this scheme can be availed only for 15 days. Under this scheme, 1 crore people of UP will be directly benefited. Those who have outstanding electricity bill and are surcharge on it will have to submit only 30% bill. After this, their surcharge will be waived.

Power Corporation's OTS (Lump Sum Solution Scheme) will run till 15 March 2021. About one crore consumers of the state can avail 100 percent surcharge waiver under the scheme. UP's Energy Minister Shrikant Sharma said on Sunday that domestic (LMV-1) and private tube wells (LMV-5) consumers of both rural and urban areas are going to benefit directly under the scheme. You have to register for this from March 1, 2021 to March 15, 2021. For registration, the consumer will have to deposit 30 percent of the outstanding bills on 31 January 2021 and the monthly bills after 31 January.

1 crore people will get direct benefit

According to the data of Power Corporation, 1 crore people of the state are going to benefit directly from this scheme. There are about 2.50 crore domestic consumers and 12 lakh tube well connections in UP. In this, electricity bill more than 10 thousand rupees is outstanding on about 90 lakh consumers. Apart from this, bill of crores of rupees are also outstanding on 10 lakh tube well connections.

How will you get benefit?

Surcharge on the dues of the consumer till 31 January 2021 will be abolished on depositing all the original outstanding money and the current monthly bill by 31 March 2021. The consumer can register himself in all Executive Engineer and SDO offices, CSC. These registrations can also be done by logging on to www.upenergy.in online. All these bill payments will be done online.