New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate and put the foundation stone from several projects in Somnath, Gujarat on August 20 through video conferencing.
PMO said in a statement on Wednesday that projects that will be inaugurated include the Somnath Promenade, Somnath Exhibition Center and the Candi reconstructed from the Old (Juna) Somnath.
He will also put the foundation stone from Shree Parvati’s temple during the event.
Somnath Promenade has been developed under Prashad (Pilgrimage and Spiritual Rejuvenation, Heritage Augmentation Driving) at a total cost of more than Rs 47 Crore.
The Somnath exhibition center, which was developed at the location of the ‘tour of tourism facilitation’, featured the exhibition of the parts dismantled from the old Somnath temple and its statues which had the architecture of the Nagar style temple from the old Somnat.
The reconstructed temple of Old (Juna) Somnath was completed by Shree Somnath Trust with total expenditure of RS 3.5 Crore, the statement noted.
The temple was also referred to as Ahilyabai temple because it was built by Queen Ahilyabai on Indore when she found that the old temple was in the ruins.
The entire old temple complex has been rebuilt holistically for pilgrims and with augmented capacity, he added.
Shree Parvati Temple is proposed to be built with a total expenditure of Rs 30 Crore.
This will include the construction of the temple in the style of Sompura prayers, the development of garbha griha and nritya mandap.