PM inaugurates 4 projects worth Rs 83 crore at Somnath temple

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi, as the chairman of the Shree Somnath Temple Trust, on Friday virtually inaugurated and laid the foundation stone for four projects, worth Rs 83 crore of the famous Somnath temple situated in Gir-Somnath district of Gujarat.

 

The projects included the ground-breaking ceremony for the Parvati Temple that is coming up near the main temple for Rs 30 crore.

 

The three projects that he inaugurated were a 1.4-km long ‘Samudra Darshan’ walkway or promenade built at a cost of Rs 49 crore on the seashore behind the temple, a newly-built museum housing ancient artefacts constructed near the temple at Rs 75 lakh, and the renovated ‘Ahilyabai Holkar Temple’ or the old Somnath temple, renovated at a cost of Rs 3.5 crore. Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and others attended the programme at a temple auditorium. Addressing the function, the Prime Minister said that destructive forces and people who follow the ideology of creating empires through terror can dominate for some time, but their existence is not permanent as they cannot suppress humanity forever.