{"id":17875,"date":"2024-01-07T11:18:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T11:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/07\/ram-lalla-consecration-worlds-largest-diya-to-be-lit-at-odishas-rourkela-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2024-01-07T11:18:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T11:18:10","slug":"ram-lalla-consecration-worlds-largest-diya-to-be-lit-at-odishas-rourkela-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/07\/ram-lalla-consecration-worlds-largest-diya-to-be-lit-at-odishas-rourkela-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Ram Lalla consecration: \u2018World\u2019s largest\u2019 Diya to be lit at Odisha\u2019s Rourkela &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-511542\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-header post-tp-1-header\">\n<div class=\"single-featured\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix single-post-content\">\n<p>Bhubaneswar: A voluntary organisation in Odisha\u2019s Rourkela city has planned to light up a massive Diya (earthen lamp) to mark the consecration of Ram Lalla idol at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh on January 22.<\/p>\n<p>Voluntary organization \u2018Smile Forever Foundation\u2019 has engaged a team of nine artisans led by Shambhu Prajapati from Kolkata to sculpt the massive earthen lamp, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The artisans started their work on December 26 last year and they will complete it by January 15. The earthen lamp will have a base diameter of 20 feet and a height of 5 feet, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis earthen lamp will be the largest in the world and it can contain around 7,000 litres of ghee. A 15-metre long cotton wick for the lamp will be brought from Cuttack,\u201d said a source in the voluntary organisation.<\/p>\n<p>The earthen lamp will be taken to various educational institutions and localities in the Steel City to make people aware of the consecration ceremony at Ayodhya, it added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lamp will be lit up at Hanuman Vatika in Rourkela at 5.30 pm on January 22. We are making all possible efforts so that the lamp will find a place in Guinness World Records,\u201d said Santosh Biswal, the founder of Smile Forever Foundation.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n    var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n    if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n    js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n    js.src = \"\n    fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n  }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] &#13; &#13; &#13; Bhubaneswar: A voluntary organisation in Odisha\u2019s Rourkela city has planned to light up a massive Diya (earthen lamp) to mark the consecration of Ram Lalla idol at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh on January 22. Voluntary organization \u2018Smile Forever Foundation\u2019 has engaged a team of nine artisans led by Shambhu Prajapati from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17877,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17875\/revisions\/17877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}