Nagpur: Shivshankar Patil, managing the Wali Maharaj Sanstan Santan Santan San Janshan, Syegaon, in the Buldhana district, died of old age on Wednesday.
Patil, 82, has dedicated his whole life to temple management.
Patil is considered a master of management of public trust because of the ideas he introduces in Shegar.
He is famous for administration and management of temples that feed thousands of people every day.
Not only does the toughness of the temple like Shirdi take inspiration and guidance from it, but students from many management schools throughout the country will visit Shegaon to study the patil system.
Tens of thousands of worshipers who visit the city of the temple every year the upper class service experience provided by all volunteers working without hierarchy and remuneration.
Along with maintaining discipline, cleanliness and sanctity, the system has also maintained the trust of the temple free of corruption, politics and fraud.
Under Patil’s guidance, which heads Shegaon Trust for more than four decades, Sevaks has absorbed polite and respectful behavior.
People from rich families, high-educated backgrounds enrolled themselves as ‘Sevak’ to provide free services to worshipers.
There is a time when advanced bookings will be made for ‘Sevaks’ because there will be no jobs for years together.
An worshiper of Arden Sant Santan Maharaj, Patil was sick for the past few months.
Patil, who has his own followers, died inhaled the last in his house.
The last rite will be carried out on his farm, adjacent to his house, on Thursday.
The temple was closed for worshipers due to covid-19 restrictions.
Syefaon Trust has appealed to people and people not to rush to Shegaon to pay tribute to Patil and follow the Covid-19 guidelines to avoid the crowd.
Trust also runs college engineering and management, as well as Anand Sagar projects, which is one of the types of tourist attractions developing on 650 hectares in Shegaon.