The trust will be spending Rs.3000 crore during the festival to introduce several facilities for the devotees.
On the occasion of centenary year of Sai baba’s samadhi, Saibaba Sansthan Trust of the Shirdi temple is going to organize a year long festival from October 2017 to October 2018. Representatives from all the Sai baba temples across the globe will be invited for the same.
The trust will be spending Rs.3000 crore during the festival to introduce several facilities for the devotees.
Dr. Suresh Haware, the Chairman of Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust, Shirdi declared the festival claiming that it would be the biggest Sai movement in the world.
According to the numbers provided by the trust, there are over three thousand big Saibaba temples in India and over four hundred globally.
It is presumed that the footfall will be more than the Kumbh Mela organised in Nagpur. On a regular day, the temple welcomes over 30,000 devotees; however, over 50,000 people are expected during the festival.
The temple will organise various cultural, chanting, discourse progammes and awakening lectures in the temple area.
The trust will introduce several facilities for the benefit and convenience of devotees, providing lunch for free of cost to devotees during the festival. On special occasions, the ques of devotees go upto four kilometers and face a lot of trouble.
Arrangements of direct darshan for the mothers with young children, elderly, differently-abled and patients will be provided. For mothers with infants, feeding rooms will be provided.
Facility of free water and beverages will also be provided for those in the line along with free wi-fi facility around the temple.
Besides this, a facility of ‘time darshan’ will be introduced via bio-metric photo identity procedure. A VIP darshan pass facility will also be available at the temple as well as online.
Speaking about the added infrastructural and other initiatives, Haware added, “500 ambulances will be provided to NGOs across the state. A new hospital building will be made in accordance to the existing Shri Sainath Rugnalaya hospital. At the existing hospital a proposal of four more dialysis machines has been proposed. A plan of a medical college in Shirdi has also been proposed. Along with this, there will be a mobile app.”
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
 "YB Chavan")
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
)
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
)
)
)
)
)
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}