The Ram Temple inauguration in January 22 will be nothing less than a historic ceremony!

Materials from all across the nation are being used for construction of the grand temple. From Makrana marble and pink sandstone from Rajasthan, granite stone from Tamil Nadu and Telangana, and coloured marble from Mandla in Madhya Pradesh have been used in the under-construction Ram Temple in Ayodhya, officials of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust entrusted with building the structure said, as reported by IndianExpress.

The pink sandstone measuring 4.7 lakh cubic feet from Rajasthan's Bharatpur district has been used in the main temple structure, 17,000 granite stones in the plinths, and the white Makrana and coloured marbles were used for the inlay work, it is learnt.

Also, teakwood procured from the Balarshah and Allapalli forest ranges of Maharashtra has been used in 44 doors of the temple, including 14 which will have gold-plating work, the officials said.

'Ye Hindustan ki collective engineering ka result hai (this is an outcome of India's collective engineering endeavour),' Trust secretary Champat Rai said on Tuesday.

The temple complex will have its own sewage and water treatment plants, fire service, and an independent power station, Rai said, adding that experts from IITs in Delhi, Guwahati, Chennai and Bombay; NIT Surat; Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee; National Geo Research Institute, Hyderabad and the National Institute of Rock Mechanics worked together to give the final shape to the temple.

More than 4,000 workers, including 460 craftsmen, are working round the clock to ready the temple's ground floor for the consecration ceremony (Pran Pratistha) of Ram idol on January 22. 'This is purely an Indian endeavour. Even the agencies hired for the construction work are Indian,' he claimed.

Emphasising that the experts worked to make the structure last for 1,000 years, Rai said iron was not used anywhere in the temple as the metal's maximum life is 200 years.