The Centre will assess the growth potential for selected temple economies and formulate strategy and action plan for harnessing such potential. It will seek to promote economic growth by catalyzing new enterprises, expanding existing enterprises, promoting employment, skill development and such related tasks to ensure sustainable development of temple towns. The Centre will also emphasize on upgrading temple administrative mechanisms.
Upgrade administrative mechanisms including; temple trust, local authority, state government and also interest groups, e.g. priests, shopkeepers, boatmen, accommodation providers, transport operators through various trainings and other means. This will foster rapid, optimal and orderly growth of temple towns. The issue of management of financial resources will also be addressed.
Ensure sustainable development of temple towns by addressing the critical metrics of sustainability such as; water and energy consumption, waste disposal, transport and traffic, air/water/noise pollution, forest/tree cover, recycling, circular economy etc.
Assess the growth potential for selected temple economies and
formulate strategy and action plan for harnessing such potential.
The potential manifests itself in terms of visitor flow, stay length,
activity mix, experiences- expansion, new offerings, diversification.
The Centre will also put forward proposals for optimising the nature of growth.
Promote economic growth by catalyzing new enterprises, expansion of existing enterprises, promotion of employment, skill development and such related tasks. This will complement the current thrust on renovation, infrastructure development, amenities for the visitors and safety & security.
The Centre will undertake studies addressed at bothintegrated development as well as specific aspect development-of selected temple towns in India. These, in many cases, will be multidisciplinary studies. The research will be empirical, while laying out and drawing from Indian as well as global benchmarks. The research output will be actionable in nature. It will be presented to the concerned stakeholders.
The centre will organise and host events on issues concerning the temple towns. The events will be in the nature of propagating policy proposals, highlighting problems, communicating best practices and success stories and exploration of inter- temple town partnerships. It will provide knowledge, networking and logistical support required for convening such events.
The stakeholders in the temple town would need capacity building. These stakeholders are temple administrators, managers, priests, shopkeepers, vendors, service providers, prospective entrepreneurs. The capacity building will pertain to domains such as entrepreneurship and skill development. The Centre will organise training, orientation and sensitization programmes.
The temple towns will launch a range of projects meant to accelerate growth and tone up management. These projects will require management support- budgeting, scheduling, monitoring, mid-course corrections, etc. The Centre will proactively provide such support.
