{"id":11178,"date":"2012-07-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/07\/16\/temple-rajagopuram-to-be-demolished\/"},"modified":"2012-07-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T12:00:00","slug":"temple-rajagopuram-to-be-demolished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/07\/16\/temple-rajagopuram-to-be-demolished\/","title":{"rendered":"Temple Rajagopuram To Be Demolished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/\/articleshow\/14725111.cms?intenttarget=no&#038;sa=D&#038;sntz=1&#038;usg=AFQjCNGIY5lB2A2jzTYfEDkwy7Zao6r3YA\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>GUNTUR,ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA, July 7,2012 (Times of India) In a controversial move, the state government has asked the endowments authorities to dismantle the historical rajagopuram of Amaravati temple near here. The government issued the order, ignoring the report of experts&#8217; committee which strongly objected to the demolition of the 200-year-old rajagopuram. Amaravathi temple EO Venkateswarlu said the rajagopuram would be reconstructed at a cost of US$220,000.<\/p>\n<p>Curiously, the two separate experts committee appointed by the endowments department made A strong case for protecting the historical monuments. &#8220;Demolition is not warranted,&#8221; said the report submitted by the expert committee <br \/>The committee visited Amaravathi last November following reports over cracks in the 100-ft tall rajagopuram and observed heavy traffic in the temple&#8217;s vicinity as main reason for rajagopuram developing small cracks. The government, instead of imposing curbs on vehicular movement, has decided to go for demolition.<\/p>\n<p>Lack of archeological sense among the endowment officials was uprooting the precious structures, criticized senior advocate A. Sanjeeva Reddy, whose movement forced the government to give up a similar attempt to demolish THE rajagopuram of Mangalagiri temple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source GUNTUR,ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA, July 7,2012 (Times of India) In a controversial move, the state government has asked the endowments,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}