Hyderabad: Telangana government was planning to set up solar plants in 252.39 acres of temple lands.
Government is planning to set in two phases, In the first phase, solar plants would be set up in 231.05 acres in 5 districts — Siddipet, Medak, Nirmal, Nizamabad and Nalgonda.
In the second phase solar plants will be constructed in 21.34 acres of temple lands spread over Hanamkonda and Mahabubabad districts.
Solar plants would be set up in 9.06 acres of land of Sri Venugopalaswamy temple in Cheryala mandal of Siddipet district, 100 acres of Sri Lakshminarayana Swamy Temple in Medak district, 96.36 acres of Bimsa Shri Gosala in Nirmal district, and 9.10 acres of Jankampet village in Edapally Mandal of Nizamabad district.
Similarly, solar plants would be set up in 15.33 acres of Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Devasthanam situated at Bijjalapuram village in Mothkur mandal of Nalgonda district.
Officials claimed that solar plants in temple lands would not only bring down power bills of the temples, but also help in saving them from encroachment.
