₹50-lakh special grant for ancient temple

December 28, 2017 11:41 pm | Updated December 29, 2017 08:09 am IST - NIZAMABAD

TELANGANA (NIZAMABAD DT.): Write Up: Devotees queing up before the ancient Shaivite temple, Neelakanteswaralayam in connectionw with the Sivarathri festival in Nizamabad on Tuesday: Photo By K.V. RAMANA.

TELANGANA (NIZAMABAD DT.): Write Up: Devotees queing up before the ancient Shaivite temple, Neelakanteswaralayam in connectionw with the Sivarathri festival in Nizamabad on Tuesday: Photo By K.V. RAMANA.

State Government has sanctioned ₹50 lakh special grant for the ancient Shaivite temple, Neelakanteswaralayam located at Kanteswar on Armoor Road near here for civil works and for the improvement of facilities on the premises. Endowment Deputy E.E. Om Prakash visited the temple and proposed work to be undertaken with the grant sanctioned at the special initiative of the local MLA Bigala Ganesh Gupta. The temple is believed to have been built by the early Kakatiyas about 1,000 years ago.

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