{"id":110353,"date":"2018-01-24T17:13:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T11:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=110353"},"modified":"2018-01-24T17:13:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T11:43:33","slug":"free-temple-darshans-sc-st-bcs-hans-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=110353","title":{"rendered":"Free temple darshans for SC, ST, BCs | The Hans India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Eluru:\u00a0<\/strong>Endowments Minister Pydikondala Manikyala Rao has said that the government was providing free darshan to the SC, ST, BC and economically backward classes through \u2018Divya Darshanam\u2019 programme in famous temples.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>He flagged off four \u2018Divyadarshan\u2019 buses at Lord Bala Venkateswara Swamy Temple in Pentapadu on Tuesday.\u00a0Speaking on the occasion, the Minister said that the economically backward SC, ST and BC people would be selected by endowments officials to take them for free darshan in famous temples across the state. He said about 180 SC, ST and BC devotees were selected in Pentapadu Mandal.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThey would be sent to the pilgrim centres in four buses. \u00a0The eligible pilgrims can apply online with Aadhar card number for the \u2018Divya Darshanam\u2019 programme,\u201d the minister informed. During the Divya Darshanam, free meals and free darshan on par with the VIP Darshan would be provided to the devotees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eluru:\u00a0Endowments Minister Pydikondala Manikyala Rao has said that the government was providing free darshan to the SC, ST, BC and economically backward classes through \u2018Divya Darshanam\u2019 programme in famous temples. He flagged off four \u2018Divyadarshan\u2019 buses at Lord Bala Venkateswara Swamy Temple in Pentapadu on Tuesday.\u00a0Speaking on the occasion, the Minister said that the economically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[2431,1826,2432,2433,2434,2435,2436],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}