Even as that the grand Ram Temple at the Ramjanmabhumi set to open by next January on the occasion of Makar Sankranti the Ayodhya Development Authority (ADA) took two years’ time to approve the proposal for a mosque to be constructed in place of the demolished Babri mosque.
The ADA has now given a final approval to the construction of a mosque on the land awarded to the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board by the Supreme Court in the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi verdict.
Construction of the mosque in Ayodhya, which was to take place as per the decision of the apex court, was delayed as the map was stuck due to non-pass-ability.
The Ayodhya Masjid Trust, an Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation constituted by the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board, submitted the maps to the Ayodhya Development Authority in the year 2021.
The Supreme Court, in its judgment dated November 9, 2019, had ordered allotment of five acres of suitable land to the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board in the area acquired under the Ayodhya Act 1993 or at any suitable prime location in Ayodhya.
In pursuant to the decision of the apex court, the Ayodhya administration had allotted five-acre land in Dhanipur village of Sohawal tehsil, about 25 km from Ayodhya city.
Ayodhya’s Divisional Commissioner and Ayodhya Development Authority Chairman Gaurav Dayal said here on Saturday that the Ayodhya Masjid project has been approved in the board meeting. After some departmental formalities, the approved map will be handed over to the Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation, he said.