{"id":12814,"date":"2013-06-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/06\/06\/mahabodhi-vishnupad-temples-in-bihar-to-have-cctv-cameras\/"},"modified":"2013-06-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T12:00:00","slug":"mahabodhi-vishnupad-temples-in-bihar-to-have-cctv-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/06\/06\/mahabodhi-vishnupad-temples-in-bihar-to-have-cctv-cameras\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahabodhi, Vishnupad temples in Bihar to have CCTV cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstrackindia.com\/newsdetails\/2013\/6\/3\/160-Mahabodhi-Vishnupad-temples-in-Bihar-to-have-CCTV-cameras.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Delhi, Mon, 03 Jun 2013NI Wire<\/p>\n<p>Bihar&#8217;s pride and Buddhism&#8217;s holiest shrine, 1500 year old Mahabodhi temple and famous Hindu temple of Vishnupad in Gaya would soon get CCTVs in their premises, Bihar&#8217;s Urban Development Minister Prem Kumar said on Monday.<br \/>The move has been taken following a threat of a terrorist attack at these places. &#8220;I have instructed district authorities to install CCTVs at Mahabodhi temple and Vishnupad temple soon for security reasons,&#8221; Kumar said.<br \/>&#8220;CCTVs will not only keep a watch on suspicious activities, they would also record everything as proof&#8221;, he added.<br \/>Kumar said authorities at both the temples have been asked to identify the locations for the installation of CCTVs, including at points of entry and exit.<br \/>Ganesh Kumar, Gaya Superintendent of Police said that he had held discussions with the minister Sunday, and an agreement was reached that the cameras would be installed soon.<br \/>Earlier last year, security of the Mahabodhi temple was handed over to the Special Task Force (STF) of Bihar Police.<br \/>The temple at Bodh Gaya was built at the place where Buddha attained enlightenment 2,550 years ago. It has also been declared a Unesco World Heritage Site in 2002.<br \/>Vishnupad temple, which is a temple of Hindu god Vishnu and visited by thousands of Hindus from India and abroad every year is on the hit list of terror groups.<br \/>An annual fortnight-long Pitrapaksh, during which Hindus make ritualistic offering called &#8220;pindadan&#8221; for the salvation of their forefathers, takes place at the temple.<br \/>Thousands of Hindus from every part of the country and even from abroad gather in this town, about 100 km from state capital Patna.<br \/>Priests called Gaywal-pandas perform the prayers at Vishnupad temple. Moreover, it is believed that Lord Rama and his wife Sita performed this religious rite for King Dasharath, Rama&#8217;s father, at this place<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source New Delhi, Mon, 03 Jun 2013NI Wire Bihar&#8217;s pride and Buddhism&#8217;s holiest shrine, 1500 year old Mahabodhi temple and,&#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-12814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12814","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=12814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}