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Dear Sishya Paramparais of Bhagavath RaamAnuja:

Daasan Sadagopan"s PraNamams .

For the past two weeks , a lot of exploratory work
has been going on at Chennai, SriperumbhUdhUr and here 
to undertake a nontypical Kaimkaryam at the birth place of
Bhagavath RaamAnujA in tune with this year's Birthday
Festivals .

His avathAra dinam is May 2 and close to ONE LAK OF 
PILGRIMS WILL BE visiting  DURING THESE FESTIVITIES 
THAT CAPS ON MAY 2.

The desperation of the pilgrims and particularly Women
and children during their visits to the temple premises 
for offering  their worships is readily imaginable.  They 
have travelled a long distance by bus or car or foot .

It is hot . They look for a place to answer the nature's calls 
after or before the darsanam inside the temple . They wish to
wash their feet before entering the sacred premises .There is 
none available at the perimeter of the temple .The locals 
are overwhelmed and shut the door on these desperate people 
to use their homes . It is understandable reluctance given 
the size of the crowd. This unfortunate situation ends up
in creating the most unsanitary conditions around the temple.
SriperumbhUdhUr does not have the infra structure support of
Thiruppathy-Thirumala KshEthram .

Few of us who have been debating about this problem have been
ably guided by Sri ManorAm Das of Chennai ; he has been shuttling 
between SriperumbhUthUr and Chennai and ISKCON offices in
Chennai to hammer out a construction program of Sanitary 
Facilities at SriperumbhUdhUr in time for this year's RaamAnuja
Jayanthy ( May 2). Details of his Engineering plan and cost 
estimates for a modest facility is attached .

The essence of this plan is to start right away and  finish the work
with the help of a reliable construction firm and provide protection
services after the Uthsavam is over to protect the investments
for future times . Extra care has been taken to avoid price inflations
and gouging at all levels with close supervision .

The estimated cost is 3.75 Laks of Rupees , which comes to $8,500
in US Currency . 

The plan is to construct 6 Toilets and 2 bath rooms for the Ladies .
The gents will have 6 Toilets , 5 Urinals and 3 showers . The unit cost 
for the 12 toilets, 5 showers and 5  urinals for men would be $8,500
divided by 22 items of uneven costs: $383 /Unit or Rs.16,872  . 
The ground has been  given free by the temple authorities . 

100 Devotees supporting by $85 /per person would be able to
cover the expenses . Clearly a higher level of support by the individuals
or groups from India and Overseas will speed up the process .

Sorry we did not have additional time to announce 
the project   earlier .

There are multiple ways to supprot this project from India & Overseas :

1. If you are in USA or overseas and if you have paypal or Master Card
or Visa accounts , you can make a payment online. You have to go to
http://www.dasanudas.org  and choose the method of payment
from the "participate " hyperlink on the left side of the home page.
You have to mention that your contribution is ear marked for 
the Sri PerumbhUthur Project .

All of your Tax contributions are Tax deductible in USA.

2. If you are in India , You can send it to Sri G.N.Balaji,
T.Nagar Chennai . His ICICI account is given below . You 
can also send e-mail to Sri Manoramdas at :
manoramjps@xxxxxxxxx

3. Sriman M.K.Sudarshan of Kuwait has met with Sri Manoram
earlier this week in Chennai and he will be coordinating the donations
from Kuwait ans Middle East . Please contact him at :
mksudarshan2002@xxxxxxxxxxx

4. Please also contact me if you need any help from my end .

Please keep me informed about your participation
details to keep track of the needed support funds .
Thank you all for your anticipated Support .

RaamAnuja Daasan, V.Sadagopan 
   

Details on the Project from Sri Manoramdas :  

*******************************************************
* Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 6:19 AM ***************
* Subject: Final reports - Toilets in Sriperumbuttur.******
********************************************************


 Dear Vaishnavas,
 
 Dandavats Pranams!
 
 
 Project report:
 
 I met the Sriperumbuttur temple officials and they
 were happy to discuss the project and initiate project
 .The executive officer told me that until date the
 sanctioned fund from the Govt. had not reached and
 also there is no information on the matter. He also
 told me that things could change in the allotment of
 funds for this project as the Tamilnadu elections are
 expected to be held in the near future.
 
 Many priests in the temple are extremely happy with
our initiative to initiate this project of
 constructing toilets for pilgrims. Around 5000
 pilgrims visit the temple for the monthly Thiruvadarai
 festival and around 200 to 300 pilgrims visit the
 temple on a daily basis.
 
 For the yearly 10day festival the plgrim inflow is
 around 1,00,000. Priests in the temple are requesting
 to start the project without any delay and if possible
 complete it for the festival.  The festival has begun
 and the main festival days are on the April 30th,May
 1st and May 2nd is the Appearence day  of Sri Ramanuja
 acharya.
 
 The present Toilets: This place was previously a
 temple cowshed (go shala) and the temple has
 constructed 2 toilets in this place and  sending these
 pictures in few hrs time.
 
 The present toilet place is 3 minutes a walk able
 distance from the Main temple entrance.  Most of the
 time toilets are locked and only used by temple
 authorities and if requested they are opened for the
 piligrims. There are also no signboards indicating the
 present place as toilets.
 
 The temple authorities told me to use this place for
 construction of the new toilets. Actually this is a
 nice place as it is situated close to the temple and
 on the main road toward the bus stand. The pilgrims
 can easily identify this place and there will be also
 signboards to direct the pilgrims toward this place.
 
 The authorities of the temple have given full freedom
 for the construction of the toilets.
 
 The toilet site: Apart from the 2 toilets the whole
 area is rough .In some places there are shrubs and
 plants growing. There is also no water facility in
 this place. Need to dig a bore well and create a small
 tank in this place for water facility. I have not
 mentioned this in the plan posted yesterday as the
 list was drafted in an emergency and most things have
 not been mentioned in the draft. 
 
 Site plan: There will be 6 toilets and 2 bath rooms
 for the Ladies and 6 toilets, 5 urinal outlets and 3
 showers for the gents.
 
 Time: The total time required for the project
 completion is 8 days. Need to do a little marathon
 work with quality as the priority.
 
 MR Shiva Kumar - Civil engineer: I know him for last 4
 yrs and I am confident that he will show excellent
 results.  We are paying him labour charges and all the
 requisite materials are supplied to him.
 
 Monitors: There will be 3 devotees staying in
 sriperumbuttur from the time of initiation until till
 the completion of work.
 
 They are:
 Tirthanga chaitanya prabhu: 53 yrs old - : has
 monitored a construction project in Sri Rangam and has
 good knowledge in construction part.  He travels to
 villages, does small congregational programmers for
 the villagers and initiates them into the path of
 vaishnavism. vounteers himself for all Vaishnava
 projects.
 
 Krsna prem Prabhu:24 yrs old and is a Distributor of
 Vaishnava literatures. He is an dynamic devotee and
 can moniter the purchases and stocks.
 
 Murali Prabhu: 33 yrs old and also a Distributor of
 Vaishnava literature.  He will be assisting Tirthanga
 prabhu.
 
 Thier contact nos are :9384516886 and 9380307147
 
 Dasanu Dasanu International Charities:(Vaishnava
 charitable trust involved in Village school programmes
 and Prasadam distribution programmes OR Food relief
 programmes)
 
 To Start our work, The Sriperumbudur temple has to
 give me a letter authorization authorizing me to work
 in their place and they needed an organization name
 and I have no charitable trust registered and there is
 no time to start a charitable trust. I had a close
 friend from ISKCON congregation named Sri
 Sadasivananda das prabhu, dedicated devotee for the
 last 18 yrs and approached him for help to use his
 trust name and he happily agreed to help me in
 whatever way he could. I also asked him whether we can
 use his Charitable Trust to receive money from
 overseas and he said there is no problem as long as I
 give all the accounts in details.
 
 I am heading the project under this name as the temple
 authorities wanted me to give an organization name. I
 am also sending the letter from the temple management
 authorizing this trust to take over the construction
 for the Toilets.
 
 Dasanu dasa international charities are registered in
 America 3 yrs before and can receive online donations.
 Please visit his site for more details:
 www.dasanudas.org and to receive more details of the
 trust please read the Mission Statement under the menu
 bar.
 
 I think there is tax exemptions facility for donors
 from America.                              
 I request Vaishnavas to send their contributions
 through this charitable trust.  Otherwise send your
 contributions to this account 
 :G.N.Balaji,Chennai 
 T,Nagar ICICI Account number :602301502499.
 
 Accounts and products used: I will produce the entire
 bill, labour charges and expenditures involved in this
 project and the entire list of construction materials
 used for this project, total donations received
 reported to the donors in the end.
 
 I only have a rough calculation of expenditures
 involved at present.
 
 Funds needed: The whole project costs about 3.75
 lakhs approx .I have cut down a lot of expenditures.
 Desire to start the construction in 2 to 3 days time
 .The engineer assured he will finish the work in 1
 week time or for the festival.
 
 Once the project starts it shouldn't stop at any cost.
 The funds should be in total so there will be no
 hindrance due to lack of finances. The time is short
 and I have tried my best to do the basic groundwork.
 We just have 4 days left to start the work.
 
 There are 70,000 bahagavthas present for this great
 festival to take Darshan of our Beloved Grand, Grand
 Spiritual Master Sri Ramanuja acharya .Bhagavatha Seva
 is more important than Bhagavan seva.  Srila Ramanuja
 Acharya will be very happy and pleased if we can 
 construct the toilets and provide bathing facility for
 his devotees.
 
 The toilet facility we are constructing will cater
 only to 30% of the crowd during festivals but
 something is better than nothing. The toilet facility
 will help the poor locals too who lack facilities for
 their daily bath and attending of nature calls .
 
 This is also considered as kshetra seva.
 
 If we have extra funds then it can be used for the
 future maintenence of the toilets.For this festival a
 team of devotees from Chennai will set up water booths
 -Thaneer pandhals to serve cold water and cold butter
 milk for the pilgrims. It is getting hotter every day
 and the Main temple has not even 1 water tank to
 quench the thirst of the several pilgrims who visit
 the temple.  Our team has already created a small fund
 for this service.
 
 I am reachable on this no from tomorrow : 9380660433
 and I will be checking mails every 2 days for a short
 time only until the completion of this project and the
 end of festival.
 
 I assure the work will be of high quality.  After
 completion I will also see intend to maintain it
 properly.
 
 Please do forgive me if there have been any offences
 made in the course of my correspondences and bless our
 team for the excellent completion of this project .
 
 Vaishnava dasanu dasa,
 Manoram.
 
 
 




 
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