Amid the religious fervour, the temple town of Ayodhya's makeover is set to go beyond augmenting rail, road and airport infrastructure with Artificial Intelligence (AI) making its debut in the museums of the pilgrimage centre.

While the Ram Temple is the biggest centre of attraction in Ayodhya, the state government is making efforts to make the Ram Katha Museum the next big crowd puller in the city, as reported by MoneyControl.

The plan is to drive footfalls from the current 1,000 to 10,000 footfalls a day after the museum is redesigned using immersive technology, said Saurav Bhaik, founder of Tagbin, an AI, AR (Augmented Reality), VR (Virtual Reality) driven services company which is designing the Ram Katha museum.

The company is working on a hyper-realistic statue of Lord Ram with hand movements. The statue will also be able to speak. "The whole objective is to provide an immersive experience of Ramayana as it happened. Plans are underway to provide live darshan of the deity installed in the temple from the museum itself," said Bhaik.

A lot of the work planned in the museum will be AI-driven, he said.

“We have started designing the three-storey museum building which is two kilometres away from the temple. In one of the zones of the museum, there will be a hyper-realistic dome with animatronics, holograms, and idol projection. We will create illusions of different themes. There will also be a show of how the Ram Temple was built. Ramayana will be presented with live visuals which people will be able to see around them. Also, telling Ramayana in different languages is something we are working on. The greatest epic has audiences across the world like Thailand and Maldives. So we expect many international tourists to come to the museum."

After the completion of the Ram Temple work, the redesigning of the Ram Katha Museum will speed up, Bhaik said.

There is also a temple museum coming up in Ayodhya, which is a brownfield project, the startup founder said.

The Uttar Pradesh tourism department is planning to do more things in the city. "We are pitching for sound and light shows," he said.