Hyderabad: The Union tourism ministry has authorized developmental works at Renuka Yellamma Devasthanam in Balkampet, Hyderabad, beneath the Nationwide Project on Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Non secular Heritage Augmentation Power (PRASHAD) scheme.
In a social media put up on X, Union tourism minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat introduced {that a} three-storey anna dana development with fashionable facilities, in a position to accommodating over 200 other people at a time, will probably be advanced in a cultured taste at a price of `4.21 crore. The minister additionally shared the proposed design of the development.
Union minister for coal and mines G. Kishan Reddy, who used to be instrumental in together with the temple beneath the PRASHAD scheme all through his tenure as tourism minister, thanked Shekhawat for approving the venture. He mentioned that the initiative would assist maintain the non secular heritage of the respected temple in Hyderabad.
The Balkampet Yellamma temple is devoted to Goddess Yellamma, regarded as a type of Renuka, the mum of Lord Parashurama. The temple holds immense historic and cultural importance in Telangana. Believed to this point again to the fifteenth century, it has a historical past spanning over 700 years. In keeping with native lore, it used to be built after a rock with a goddess sculpture used to be came upon all through a well-digging excavation.
