- Over 70 artisans from Visakhapatnam are building country’s largest floating screen at Chaudhary Charan Singh Ghat
- Floating screen to show historic consecration ceremony, Ayodhya’s development journey
By Our Correspondent
Ayodhya, January 13: As the consecration ceremony is around the corner, preparations have gained momentum under the leadership of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to deck up Ayodhya as the new, grand and divine (Navya, Bhavya and Divya) Ayodhya.
As part of the preparations, the Yogi government is building the country’s largest floating screen at Chaudhary Charan Singh Ghat, which will later be installed at Aarti Ghat, and show the consecration ceremony and related programmes as well as the development journey of Ayodhya.
It is worth mentioning here that the Ayodhya Municipal Corporation signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Century Hospitality-Megaverse Associate in this regard in August.
The floating screen will enable visitors and local residents to watch the Pran-Pratishtha in Shri Ram Temple on January 22 and other cultural programmes thereafter closely. The government’s objective behind the installation of floating screen is to make visitors, both from within the country and abroad, aware of Ayodhya’s rich cultural legacy.
Akshay Anand, Managing Director of Century Hospitality-Megaverse Associate, which is constructing the floating screen, said that it would be the largest floating screen of its kind built in the country so far. The construction of the 1800 square feet vessel is going on under the supervision of the Indian Register of Shipping (IRS), he informed.
According to him, the size of the screen will be 1100 square feet. The construction of the floating screen started in November and will be completed in record time.
Floating screen will reflect Ayodhya’s cultural richness
In line with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s vision, Ayodhya is being developed based on 8 themes. The government is also trying to project Ayodhya as a city with great cultural heritage. In view of this, first of all, the consecration programme of Ram Temple will be telecast on this screen on January 22, after which the spiritual, cultural, mythological story and importance of Ayodhya will be shown.
Floating screen will be completed in record time
According to Anand, 60-70 artisans from Visakhapatnam are working day and night to build the floating screen by January 19, in record time. “Work on this is being done as per the concept of Made in India of PM Modi and CM Yogi. Currently it will be operated on biodiesel, but the plan is to operate it on solar in future. At present it is about 3 km from Chaudhary Charan Singh Ghat to Laxman Ghat. It will be operated only near deep water in the distance, but keeping in view the flow of water of Saryu, the scope of this floating screen will also increase.
Floating restaurant will also be constructed soon
After the consecration, there is also a plan to construct a 5,000 square feet floating restaurant. An MoU has been signed regarding this. After the successful operation of the floating screen, the company will start work on this plan. This restaurant will be equipped with state-of-the-art facilities to make tourists’ journey to Ayodhya memorable. A screen will also be installed at the restaurant on which the story of Ram will be presented.
