At the moment is the day. It’s a historic day, because the consecration ceremony of the Ram Mandir will happen in a grand ceremony. The temple city of Ayodhya is sporting a festive look as company — there’s 8,000 of them anticipated from all walks of life in addition to from throughout the globe — stream in, forward of the consecration ceremony.
And for one man, it’s a very important day. For Nripendra Misra, chairman of the Ram Temple Development Committee, it’s a day when he sees his untiring efforts since February 2020 come to life.
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Let’s take a more in-depth take a look at who’s Nripendra Misra and his function within the building of the Ram Mandir in addition to the pran pratishtha ceremony.
Misra’s rise and rise
Earlier than being the chairman of the Ram Temple Development Committee, Misra was a former IAS officer of UP cadre and served because the principal secretary within the Prime Minister’s Workplace from 2014 to 2019.
Apparently, the 78-year-old, who holds a masters diploma in public administration from Harvard’s John F Kennedy, MA in political science and MSc in chemistry from and MSc in chemistry from Allahabad College, wished to be a lecturer at Allahabad College. Nonetheless, his trainer advised him he had the potential to hitch the IAS. Taking his trainer’s recommendation ahead, he cracked the UPSC examination and made it to the IAS in 1967.
In his tenure, he has held a number of essential posts. He additionally holds the honour of being the principal secretary to 2 highly effective chief ministers — Mulayam Singh Yadav and Kalyan Singh. In actual fact, it’s stated that when Kalyan Singh took over from Mulayam in 1991, the BJP chief noticed no issues in retaining Misra as principal secretary. Nonetheless, many throughout the BJP objected, with an article within the RSS’ Panchjanya calling him a “CIA agent”.
Misra was ultimately transferred from Lucknow and posted because the Chairman of the Better Noida Authority in November 1992, only a month earlier than the demolition of the Babri Masjid.
In 2006, Misra was appointed as chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. And after serving in that submit for 3 years, he started writing opinion items in newspapers. An Indian Categorical report states {that a} piece in April 2014, wherein he defended Modi over Opposition allegations about gaps in his election affidavit, caught the eye of the highest BJP management.
And as they are saying, the remaining is historical past. On 27 Could 2014 — the identical day Modi took cost as prime minister — he joined the workplace as principal secretary.
Over the subsequent 5 years, he constructed a rapport with PM Modi and the 2 labored in tandem. When requested what it was prefer to work with the PM, Misra has been quoted as saying that he was hands-on. For a lot of of his colleagues, he turned virtually an elder brother, prepared to face up for them earlier than the PM, and convey the prime minister’s expectations to them.
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Being entrusted with the Ram Mandir venture
Six months after he stepped down as principal secretary to the PM in January 2020, Misra was named Chairman of the Nehru Memorial — now referred to as the Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library Society, PMML.
When it was learnt that Misra “would have liked something more”, he was appointed because the chairman of the Ram Janmabhoomi Belief (Ayodhya) building committee.
And in response to his colleagues, PM Modi couldn’t have appointed a greater particular person for the job. As a senior bureaucrat advised The Indian Categorical, “He trusts his colleagues, empowers them to be candid with their views, and is a leader who motivates. He takes decisions quickly, and is a stickler for time schedules. Most importantly, he can convey the prime minister’s expectations, and say what the PM would think of a particular idea.”
When requested himself what he thinks of the accountability entrusted to him, he had referred to as it a divine blessing. “What more could I have asked for? I am not saying I will call it a day. But what has come to me is from the Lord who alone will chart my next course,” he had advised Instances of India.
In actual fact, he says that when he was assigned the duty of establishing the Ram Mandir, the PM had given him a one-line temporary — construct a temple for Ram that may final no less than a thousand years.
And that’s what he has performed.
He has coordinated with completely different individuals, businesses to make sure that the mandir is constructed and prepared for in the present day’s grand ceremony. He’s been laborious at work guaranteeing seamless coordination between the contractor, Larsen and Toubro, the marketing consultant, Tata Consulting Engineers, the architect, CB Sompura and numerous different native, state and nationwide businesses.
He realised that the temple is a realisation of lakhs and lakhs of devotees and in an effort to not disappoint them, he’s been laborious at work. He made the Circuit Home in Ayodhya’s Civil Strains his second residence for the previous few years.
However what has he felt about this task? Misra says that whereas he’s a non secular particular person, he realised this went past his private sentiments. “This is something of national importance, which has come out of the apex judiciary — if I can live up to it and deliver, it will be my way of paying back to this country and society. I am not accepting the assignment as a religious person who must make a temple,” he advised the Indian Categorical.
And plainly all his laborious work will repay in the present day (22 January) with the consecration ceremony, which won’t solely see Prime Minister Narendra Modi in attendance, but additionally different VVIPs from completely different corners of the nation and the world.
On criticism of the ceremony
And as with all different job, the development and consecration of the temple has acquired criticism. However Misra has remained unfazed.
On the problem of the Shankaracharyas giving in the present day’s occasion a miss, as a result of the temple is incomplete, Misra was quoted as telling NDTV: “Shankaracharyas are dharm gurus. I’m nobody. They’re liable for the observants of Sanatan Dharma. Having stated so, I need to give a message to the nation.
“What we had announced was that Ram Lalla, the child Ram, will be in bhootal (the temple’s ground floor). The bhootal will have the garba griha (sanctum sanctorum), five mandaps, (religious) iconography. That has been completed,” Misra defined.
With inputs from businesses