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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 :

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