Mangaluru: The 800-year temple management committee in the District of Dakshina Kannada has decided to grow rice on three hectares of land on loan to the temple by this Muslim owner for this planting season.
Yelia Sri Wisnumurthy Temple in Sarve Pattture Taluk Village, about 65 km from Mangaluru, is being renovated at a 1.2 crore RS fee.
Contributions have come in the form of money and donations from many parts of society.
For example, Golish Gowda Kalenja, a farmer from Beltangady, recently contributed 800 one-month tillers to the temple.
The idea of childbirth when Puture Mla Sanjeeva Matandoor recently launched a rice growth campaign in Tanah Bera in Taluk.
It inspired the temple renovation committee led by Sorake Rajaro Mudambadith) to take cultivation on Venkappa’s half-hectare land on Yelia.
This land is not cultivated for almost three decades.
Because Bramhakalashotava will be held from February 1 to 6 next year and mass food is being planned on that occasion, we decided to grow land.
When the idea of rice aquaculture was allowed, Abbas Majalugadde, his brother Majalugadde Abubacker Kooduraste and nephew Puttu Beary offered their three-hectare land to the temple for this season.
The results of this land will be used during the temple festival, “Prasanna Rai S, Treasurer, the Temple’s renovation committee, to Ti.
Abbas said,” This is what we can offer to the temple.
We have processed this land for years, and this service us to the village.
“Abbas guides the locals in rice cultivation by overseeing workers in the field.
Civil works on the renovation of the temple began on November 11, 2019, and the temple has received Rs 50 Lakh’s contribution.
In addition, 4,200 people have contributed through ‘Shramadana’ or voluntary work.
Almost 60 people involved in agricultural activities and transplants were completed.
Team 15 members led by Shridhar Rao K, who head the Executing Committee Shree Sadashiveshwara, Kalenja, participated in cultivation.
Muslim family in k’taka loan three acres land to temple
