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| 2022 karthigai deepam-flag hoisting thiruvannamalai.in/ |
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| Arunachaleswar temple, Thiruvannamalai TN,. |
In the temple town of Tiruvannamalai preparations are underway for the ensuing the Maha Deepam festival that began on November 27 2022. The festival on a grand manner will be held between November 27 and December 6. As it has been customary the flag hoisting ceremony at Sri Arunachaleswarar temple took place between 5.30 am and 7 am in the presence of Deputy speaker of the house and the District Collector.
Karthigai Deepam, being one of the grand festivals in Tamil Nadu, the district administration along with HR & CE are carefully making steps to meet the heavy rush. The festival of Sri Arunachaleswarar temple, this year, it is expected, will attract roughly 25 lakh devotees from across Tamil Nadu and other states. In order to make the huge crowd of devotees to have comfortable darshan, the authorities are focusing on necessary facilities which include operation of special fleets of buses from far-off distances and trains, makeshift parking facilities, help centers. Medical mobile units, drinking water facilities and toilets, In view of recent bomb explosions in a car and autorickshaw in Coimbatore and Mangalore respectively by terrorists, this time police security will be very tight with the installation of CCTV cameras at countless vulnerable points. Police teams are to be deployed at many places inside and outside the temple. Especially on the 14 km girivalam path several police teams will provide adequate security to countless devotees.
The HR & CE management (Govt. agency) this year will allow only 2,500 devotees to climb the 2,668 foot tall Annamalaiyar Hill to witness the Maha Deepam, to be lit in the evening - 6 pm during Karthigai Deepam. The other major event --the lighting of Bharani Deepam will be held at 4 am on the temple premises in the midst of singing of devotional hymns glorifying the deities Annamalaiyar (God Shiva) and his Unnamulaiamman (Parvati).
A unique feature to be introduced this time is the waist band for the children who visit the temple with their parents. They will be tied on children, upon their arrival and he band will contain phone numbers of the guardian of the child and police control room. If the child goes missing, people can inform the police by dialing the numbers on the band. Around 20,000 bands have been procured by the district administration for the purpose.
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