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The 1500 steps to Narasimhar Koil are very steep between 300 and 500 feet level. On a hot day (most of the time in a year this area in North Arcot district has Very hot and dry weather) climbing this portion of the steps on bare feet is a difficult task even for the local people who are used to this environment. Dholis carried by bearers are available for old people.
To make things easy for the pilgrims there are sumai thaangis then and there spread out, and shady trees until this level. It is the desire of Lakshmi Narasimha Sabha to facilitate the pilgrims with an easy passage of this phase of the climbing by providing a Roof in this level.(Thirupapathi has roofing almost for the entire range of higher altitudes.). The construction of the roof was successfully completed for the first phase (between 400 and 500 feet) at an approximate cost of 3.0 lakhs. The second stage between 300 and 400 feet is estimated to be costing 5.5 lakhs. (approximately US $ 18000). I believe that there are pledges and promises to the tune of 5% of the project cost so far. Sri Vaishanavaas around the world are invited to take part in this project by offering what ever contribution they can by directly sending their remittances to Lakshmi Narasimha Sabha.
There are no plans for winch or rail car similar to the one at Palani. I guess it involves much more capital and needs larger participation from public and government. Besides the popular belief here that past attempts to install the rail car were foiled due the Lord's desire that everyone should come climbing like sobaanm. One strong and possible reason is that the turn over of pilgrims in a year is not so high and so it is believed that the initiative of government for a rail car project is unlikely in the near future. The development of the town was given a kick start due to the construction of two of their divisions by TVS groups here. Sundaram Fasteners and Lucas TVS manufacturing facilities are here, providing some capital flow to this town. The Tamil Nadu Govt. has proposed to develop and construct the Manufacturing Technology Park in consortium with Singapore Govt. and several singapore companies, similar to the software technology park in Bangalore, here in Sholingar.
The Lakshmi Narasimha Sabha is an organization believed to be founded 21 years back and is in active service to the Lord Narasimhar all over TN, Andhra, etc. It is founded by Mrs. Yadugiri, a Lakshmi Narasimha Ubaasagar and a devout Ahobila Mutt follower. She has composed many slokankaL both on sanskrit and Tamil on this perumaal. She is also a disciple of Singa perumaal Koil Aachaaryar who is himself a Narasimhar Ubaasagar also. They do Bajans every Friday at their place in Desikaa chaari road, Aazhwaar pettai, Madras. The Panguni Utthiram is celebrated every year here in a grand scale. They have executed few projects earlier and one such was a silver peedam for Yoga Narasimhar at sholingar in 1980. I encourage every baktha and Srivaishnavaa to visit the shrine at her residence when they visit Madras, India.
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