PANCHKULA, INDIA, April 11, 2011 (Indian Express): A packaging machine recently purchased by the Mansa Devi Shrine Board has been working 24 hours a day to meet the demands of packed prasad. During Navratras, the board is offering prasad to devotees in paper packets. Earlier, the prasad was packed manually in small polythene packets.
“We have bought the machine for US$5,000. It is churning 3,000 packets of sugar crystals per hour,” said Dharampal Dattana, Chief Executive Officer of the Shri Mata Mansa Devi Shrine Board.
The machine is placed inside the temple campus and requires just one person to put the sugar crystals into it. In a day, the machine churns out 72,000 packets — during the last seven days, it had produced 504,000 packets, making the production of holy food an industrial affair.