Develop and manage Kalkaji Temple (Delhi) on lines of Tirupti Temple

Kashmir Times. Dated: 3/23/2018 1:26:21 PM

Dear Editor,
Famous Kalkaji temple at New Delhi has been of utmost importance to Hindus, witnessing huge crowds especially in days of holy navratras twice a year for nine days each. Whole premises on the hill having Kalkaji-temple need proper development. Presently there are unauthorized structures in the complex which lacks cleanliness. Area should be beautified with all necessary facilities provided with a modern touch. Huge earnings by way of offerings and sale-resale of coconuts and other items of worships should be utilized for public-welfare schemes like is done at Tirupati with effective government-control in management..
Priests controlling the temple as per dynastic traditions run Kalkaji-temple like business-shop. These priests sell VVIP-passes in festival-days at exorbitant high costs for Darshan just near the deity. People seated on high posts in legislature, bureaucracy, and police enjoy such privilege without any cost. All these persons are flattered through special Prasad and other puja-items without any cost. Otherwise priests are very arrogant towards commoners. Commoners are made to stand in long queues that too for a hasty Darshan of the deity from a distance that too obstructed by VVIPs doing puja inside the deity-enclosure itself.
Even management of world-renowned Sai-temple at Shirdi has stopped special treatment to VVIPs by disallowing priority Darshan in peak days around New Year Day on 1st January when the temple attracts maximum crowd. At least right to worship should be equal for all. It happens only in India that VVIPs are de-facto self-made gods getting undue favour even at religious places. Even everything is very well managed at famous Pashupatinath Temple at Kathmandu (Nepal). Premises is always very clean with official receipts given for different types of pujas with rates fixed and date of puja booked in advance. Priests are given a handsome fixed salary besides commission on money collected through offerings and for bookings of pujas. Prasad and puja-items are given after the puja, cost of which is included in the official puja-cost.
—Subhash Chandra Agrawal,
1775 Kucha Lattushah
Dariba, Delhi.

 

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