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Long queues in front of Aravana counters Plan for global tenders for projects 
With devotion: Pilgrims waiting at the Lower Thirumuttom for the holy darshan at the Lord Ayyappa Temple in Sabarimala on Tuesday morning. SABARIMALA: The Lord Ayyappa Temple here witnesses heavy rush on Tuesday, the eleventh day of the 41-day annual Mandalam festival. The influx of pilgrims to the holy hillock was so heavy in the morning hours that the devotees, including women and children, had to wait for hours together for the holy darshan inside the serpentine barricade erected on the Sannidhanam-Saramkuthi path. Similar queues were found before the Aravana counters too. Though the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) had relaxed the regulation in the sale of Aravana prasadam from five cans per person to 10 cans from Monday, the delay in getting the prasadam at the Devaswom counters has been causing much inconvenience to the pilgrims waiting in long-winding queues. According to the Executive Officer Unnikrishnan, the sale of Aravana had crossed 90,000 cans on Monday and the Board had sufficient stock of the prasadam to meet the requirements in the coming days too. He said a total of one lakh flip-lids were brought to the TDB godown on Tuesday and another lot of 10-lakh lids were expected from Taiwan this week. Mr. Unnikrishnan said the TDB would be in a position to produce one lakh cans of Aravana from Wednesday. However, the TDB had gone back on its earlier decision and precedence of keeping the prasadam counters open round-the-clock following the Aravana crisis, creating inconvenience to the devotees camping at Sanidhanam during the night. PrasadamThe TDB has been closing the counters 45 minutes after the closure of the temple at 11 p.m. to open it only the next morning at 4 a.m. Devaswom sources at Sannidhanam told The Hindu that the Board would be in a position to keep the prasadam counters open round-the-clock by end of this week with increased production of Aravana by the weekend. Master planMeanwhile, TDB president C.K. Gupthan said the Board was exploring the possibility of inviting global tenders for implementing various pilgrim-oriented development projects proposed in the Sabarimala Master plan before the culmination of the ongoing annual pilgrim season itself. The Board would launch work on various development projects at Sabarimala as soon as the ongoing Mandalam-Makaravilaku festival concludes so that more facilities would be available for the pilgrims by the next pilgrim season, he added.
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