Sabarimala Crisis-Kummanam seek intervention of Governor & Military help

11/12/2007 12:10:32 HKThiruvananthapuram:

Day by day, the condition of Sabarimala pilgrimage is dilapidating due to the irresponsibility and inefficiency of Devaswom Ministry and its Devaswom Board. Governor should immediately intervene and take necessary action to restore proper management in Sabarimala, Demanded Hindu Aikya Vedi General Secretary Kummanam Rajasekharan.As Kerala Government and Devaswom board proved to be an utter failure, Governor should seek Army’s help in crisis management. Crowd Management specialist of Military services should be called in as day by day the number of Devotees coming for holy pilgrimage is increasing.It is for the first time such an inefficient management was seen in Sabarimala. Thousands of devotees returned back without Darsan is first time in the History. Water Scarcity and lack of sanitation facilities forces extra burden on the devotees. Devaswom Minister never bothered to visit the Temple and tried to understand the crisis in Sabarimala. The Devaswom president is making irresponsible statements and justifying his faults without any concern for the Devotees problems. Board members should resign and apologize to the devotees owing responsibility for the grave mismanagement.




K.Venugopal 12/12/2007 03:33:55

Declare Sabarimala a semi-autonomous and holy region

I think the inevitable has happened. Insincere people have got on to the management team at Sabarimala, appointed by greedy politicians with an eye on easy money. Worse, many are actually anti-Hindu and wish to tarnish the image of Sabarimala.The only long term solution is to demand from the Central Government release of large tracts of forest lands and build massive infrastructures with toilet facilities, round the clock water, subsidized food and stay facilities. Also, the entire area surrounding Sannidhanam should be divided into sectors and it must be announced that devotees would be released into Sannidhanam area from the main gates of these sectors only at particular times. This way devotees would know at which sector to queue up for darshan according to timings of their convenience. Indeed, the whole area of Sabarimala must be declared a semi-autonomous and holy region. Tantris must also consider whether new temples can be consecrated on the 18 hills of the Poongavanam so that Sabarimala would be a round-theyear pilgrimage centre for all devotees.