Construction of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya is set start from March first week as NaMo Government on Wednesday announced a nine members of Board of Trustees of the Sri Ram Janmabhoomi Tirath Kshetra for the construction of as per the guidelines of the SC on November 9.

Senior SC lawyer, who represented Ram Lalla Birajman in the SC, K Parasaran, has been appointed as Chairman of the Trust. His office at GK has been made the office of the trust. The Trust will have total 14 members including a Dalit member.

District Magistrate of Ayodhya will be the ex-officio trustee, who should be a practising Hindu. In case DM is not Hindu, then ADM will be an ex-office member of the Trust.

The government announced ten members (nine names announced by the Centre and one DM of Ayodhya) who will be members of the Trust. They included K Parasaran (chairman), Jagatguru Shankjaracharya Jyotishpeethadeshwar Swami Vasudevanand Saraswati Ji Maharaj of Prayagraj; Jagatguru Mahadevacharya Vishwaprasanna Theertha Maharaj of Udupi, Karnataka; Yugpurush Paramananda Ji Maharaj of Haridwar; Swami Govind Dev Ji Maharaj, Puna; Vimlendra Mohan Pratap Mishra, Ayodhya naresh; Dr Anil Mishra, a practising Homeopathic doctor of Ayodhya, Kameshwar Chaupal of Patna and Mahant Mahant Dhinendra Das, head of the Nirmohi Akhara.

Four remaining members will be nominated – two by the Board of Trustees with a majority resolution, one by the Centre who will be an IAS officer deputed at the Centre not below the rank of joint secretary. While, the state government will nominate one member an IAS officer not below the rank Secretary.

The Centre has also made it compulsory that any point of time all members of the Trust must be practising Hindus and one of them must belong to the Schedule Caste category.