Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation stopped the construction of hospital in Ayodhya, said – there is no fund at the moment
According to the members of the trust, the trust had first planned to build a hospital and later a mosque, but the trust does not have enough money to start this work easily.
The Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation Trust in Ayodhya is currently not going to get the hospital constructed and the reason for this is said to be lack of funds. This land was given to the Waqf Board in 2019 after the Supreme Court’s decision regarding the Ram temple. For which the trust is handling a mega project under which a mosque, a charity hospital and a community kitchen are to be constructed.
According to the members of the trust, the trust had first planned to build a hospital and later a mosque, but the trust does not have enough money to start this work easily.
What statement has come out from the trust?
Trust secretary and spokesperson Athar Hussain said that now this work will be completed gradually in a few steps. Hussain said, “We have stopped this project for the time being due to lack of funds, despite these difficulties, we will not stop the project, but will work on it with a better plan.”
He said, “We will submit a new map of the mosque to the Ayodhya Development Authority. It will take less money to build a mosque and it will be very easy to arrange. According to Hussain, the cost of the mosque to be built in 15,000 square feet would be Rs 8-10 crore. The mosque was to be built first, but the trust could not raise the required Rs 300 crore to build it.
He said, “Our attempt was to build a hospital before the mosque, but this is a Rs 300-crore project, the land where the mosque is proposed to be built already has several mosques, so we first decided to build a charity hospital and community kitchen. thought about.
Zafar Farooqui, chief trustee of the foundation and chairman of the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board, said that the members of the trust are collecting funds from the public across the country from next month. He said that there will be a board meeting at the end of July to prepare a plan in this direction. On November 9, 2019, the Supreme Court, in its judgment in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case, ordered the disputed site to be given over to the construction of a temple and gave five acres of land in Ayodhya to Muslims for the construction of a mosque.
