Pre-empting ban on next two days, devotees throng temple
The Hindu
Thousands visit Rameswaram temple on Mondays
Hundreds of devotees thronged the Ramanathaswamy Temple here on Monday.
With the Ramanathapuram district administration banning entry of devotees into the temple on Tuesday and Wednesday, the arrival of pilgrims to the famous temple was unusually high. “The crowd in the temple is on the rise on Mondays, as the State government has denied permission for devotees to enter big temples on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays as a COVID precautionary measure,” said a temple official.
Around 440 MBBS graduates of 2021 are not required to undergo one year of compulsory rural service as per the bond signed by them while joining the medical course through government-quota seats in 2015 as the High Court of Karnataka has said the law, enacted in 2012 for mandatory rural service, remained unenforced for 10 years as it was published in the official gazette only in July 2022.