There is joy throughout the nation as everybody is celebrating the inauguration of the much awaited and the auspicious Ram Temple in Ayodhya.

Everybody is doing their bit to be a part of historic celebration, the revered Mahakaleshwar temple in Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain is ready to send five lakh laddus to Ayodhya for the grand consecration ceremony at Ram Mandir on January 22.

A shrine official revealed that each of the weighs about 50 grams and the entire consignment will be of 250 quintals.

"We have packed four lakh laddus. One lakh are being packed today. They will be off to Ayodhya in three to four trucks on Friday," the Mahakaleshwar Temple assistant administrator Moolchand Junwal said.

He added that about 150 temple staffers and people from social organisation participated in the making of laddus over five days. The work started after Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav announced that the sweet balls would be sent to Ayodhya, 900 km away, as prasad of "Baba Mahakal".

He said there was a special unit on the Mahakal shrine premises that prepared the laddus or laddoos.

Along with Mahakaleshwar Temple, the world renowned Tirupati trust has also immersed itself in the preparation of one lakh laddus meant to be distributed among the devotees attending the Ayodhya Ram mandir consecration ceremony.

The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams trust which administers the affairs of the richest Hindu temple of Lord Venkateswara Swamy at Tirumala recently announced its plans of distributing a whopping one lakh world famous Tirupati laddus among the devotees from across the globe who would be attending the Ram mandir consecration ceremony at Ayodhya.

In accordance with its decision, the Tirupati trust led by in-charge executive officer V Veerabrahmam has begun the preparation of one lakh laddus.

According to Veerabrahmam, about 350 Srivari sevak volunteers are involved in the preparation of one lakh laddus under the supervision of TTD's temple kitchen workers and officers.

TTD sources said that each laddu would weigh about 25 grams and that they would be packed with utmost care to be eventually distributed among the Ram bhakts.