Are you a hardline Hindu or just a believer?
Do you put on a janeu (sacred thread)?
Do you drink alcohol and eat meat?
Are you able to handle crowds starting from 20,000 to five lakh?
These are a number of the questions being requested of aspirants for the submit of CEO of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Belief, which manages the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.
Interviews for the 18 shortlisted candidates started on Tuesday on the temple complicated and continued on Wednesday. In line with sources, three former IAS officers, an ex-IPS officer, and 4 former navy officers had been amongst these interviewed on Tuesday.
Sources mentioned candidates are being requested about their administrative abilities, crowd administration expertise, and religion.
The candidates additionally confronted questions on their non secular practices and imaginative and prescient for the Ram temple.
The interviews, lasting 40 to 50 minutes every, included questions on the candidates’ religion in Lord Ram and Hindu non secular practices, together with whether or not they sport a shikha (braid), put on a ‘janeu‘ (sacred thread), and are pure vegetarian or non-vegetarian, the sources mentioned.
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The candidates had been additionally requested whether or not they eat liquor or are teetotalers, and whether or not they’re “hardline Hindus” or just believers. Questions had been additionally requested about carrying apparel in accordance with Hindu non secular practices, they mentioned.
In line with sources, candidates had been additionally requested about their management talents, non secular and social engagement, and their imaginative and prescient and work plan for the Ram temple.
The Belief determined to nominate a full-time chief govt officer (CEO) after alleged embezzlement of Ram temple donations got here to gentle.
Eighteen candidates had been shortlisted from 5,200 candidates for the job. The 18 candidates additionally embrace former senior officers of temples in South India, in response to sources.
A 3-member choice committee arrange by the Belief is interviewing the candidates. The panel contains former Supreme Court docket choose Justice Pramod Kohli, Lt Gen Vishnukant Chaturvedi (retd), and Suresh Haware.
From the 18 candidates, the panel will shortlist three names for the Belief to make the ultimate determination.
The Belief is prone to announce the brand new CEO at its September 2 assembly.
The allegations of embezzlement of Ram temple donations have led to scrutiny of the Belief’s monetary administration. Eight accused have been arrested within the case, whereas three officers, together with the Belief’s former basic secretary Champat Rai, have stepped down from their posts.
