{"id":5189,"date":"2005-04-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/04\/12\/2005-04-12-ayodhya-temple-town-to-get-facelift\/"},"modified":"2005-04-12T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-12T12:00:00","slug":"2005-04-12-ayodhya-temple-town-to-get-facelift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/04\/12\/2005-04-12-ayodhya-temple-town-to-get-facelift\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayodhya Temple Town To Get Facelift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/1050410\/asp\/nation\/story_4596671.asp\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>LUCKNOW, INDIA, April 11, 2005: The narrow lanes could get roomier and the squalor on the roads a thing of the past. Ayodhya is set for a facelift, with the Uttar Pradesh government deciding to repackage the temple town to change its image of a communal flashpoint, as the Western media has described it, to a tourist destination for both foreign and domestic. The state has planned a massive complex near the bank of the Sarayu. The beautification drive includes a new township, which is already coming up on the town&#8217;s outskirts. Visitors can view a chronological account of Ram&#8217;s life and see on screen key events from the Ramayana in different Indian and foreign languages. A museum, to protect copies of invaluable ancient scripts that trace the cultural history of Ayodhya, is part of the plans. The state government, which is waiting for central approval for the US$45 million project, is also planning a handicraft colony near the river. A team of senior state tourism officers visited the temple town and inspected a 30-acre plot allotted for the beautification efforts. &#8220;Ayodhya has more history than what it is now known for,&#8221; said Partha Sensharma, the director-general of Uttar Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation. &#8220;The object of the project is to showcase that for the tourists.&#8221; &#8220;We welcome the project,&#8221; said Mahant Gyan Das, the chief of the All India Akhara Parishad. &#8220;We believe there is a need to tell the world about the importance of Ayodhya in India. The projects will help change the image of this temple town.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceLUCKNOW, INDIA, April 11, 2005: The narrow lanes could get roomier and the squalor on the roads a thing of,&#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-5189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189","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=5189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}