Ram temple trust: Ten out of the 15 members named

Ayodhya: The Centre announced nine members of Board of Trustees of the Sri Ram Janmabhoomi Tirath Kshetra, the new Trust constituted by the Centre for construction

Published on: Feb 5, 2020, 23:49:17 IST

By Pawan Dixit

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Ayodhya: The Centre announced nine members of Board of Trustees of the Sri Ram Janmabhoomi Tirath Kshetra, the new Trust constituted by the Centre for construction of Ram Mandir, on Wednesday evening.

Senior lawyer of Supreme Court Supreme Court 92-year old K Parasaran, who headed the team of lawyers in apex court in the decades old Ram Janmabhoomi land dispute, has been appointed as Chairman of the Trust.

In all the Trust will have 14 members.

District magistrate of Ayodhya will be the ex-officio trustee, who will be a practising Hindu. If the DM is not Hindu, then additional district magistrate will be an ex-office member of the Trust.

The Centre has announced 10 –members (nine names announced by the Centre and one DM of Ayodhya) who will be members of the Trust.

Remaining four members will be nominated – two by the Board of Trustees with a majority resolution, one by the Centre who will be an IAS officer deputed at the Centre not below the rank of joint secretary.

While, the state government will nominate one member an IAS officer not below the rank Secretary.

Members of the Board of Trustees announced by the Centre are K K Parasaran (chairman), Jagatguru Shankjaracharya Jyotishpeethadeshwar Swami Vasudevanand Saraswati Ji Maharaj of Prayagraj; Jagatguru Mahadevacharya Vishwaprasanna Theertha Maharaj of Udupi, Karnataka; Yugpurush Paramananda Ji Maharaj of Haridwar; Swami Govind Dev Ji Maharaj, Puna;

Vimlendra Mohan Pratap Mishra, Ayodhya naresh; Dr Anil Mishra, a practising Homeopathic doctor of Ayodhya, Kameshwar Chaupal of Patna and Mahant Mahant Dhinendra Das, head of the Nirmohi Akhara.

However, name of Nritya Gopal Das, head of the Ram, Janmabhoomi Nyas, does not figure in the list.

There is a possibility that he might be nominated by the Board of Trustees.

The Centre also mandated that any point of time all members of the Trust will be practising Hindus and one of them must belong to the Schedule Caste category.

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Pawan Dixit
Pawan Dixit, Assistant Editor, brings over 20 years of frontline reporting experience to the newsroom. A specialist on Uttar Pradesh politics and governance, he has reported from the ground across the state’s most consequential stories. He cut his teeth in eastern UP, spending 15 years covering the region. Based in Varanasi, he reported the 2012 UP Assembly polls and the 2014 Lok Sabha elections that reshaped the state’s political map. Moving to Lucknow in 2016, he has since led coverage of the 2017 and 2022 UP Assembly elections and the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. His reporting tracks the BJP’s strategy, opposition moves, and voter sentiment across all 75 districts. Pawan has been a constant presence in Ayodhya since 2016. He reported the entire arc of the Ram Mandir movement — from the legal fight to the Supreme Court verdict, through temple construction, to the inauguration. He continues to track every development at the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust. On the state beat, he covers the BJP, the Industrial Development Department, and handles key outstation political assignments. He also reports major cases from the district court, Lucknow bench of the High Court, and the State Information Commission. Along with this, he also reports on NGT's important decisions related to UP. Known for sharp sourcing and clear analysis, Pawan connects politics, policy, infrastructure and faith — the forces driving UP today. He has reported developments in Ayodhya and Ram Mandir movement since 2016. The Supreme Court's Ram Mandir verdict, temple construction and the its opening have been reported by him. He reports all developments in Ayodhya and Ram Mandir Trust. He covers state BJP, Industrial development department, outstation political assignments, reports special cases from district court, high court and state information commissionRead More