Sitarambagh Temple’s Step Wells to Get Back Past Glory

Haydarabad: A step from the Temple of Sitarambagh in the Old City, which was once at the center of the temple rituals, will come to its past glory from nearly two centuries.

The restoration works aim to maintain the old architecture as well as reviving the traditional water management system that has been invalid for the last few ten years.

The temple, built by Puranmal Ganeriwal, a native of Rajasthan, hosted seven -step wells. However, he lost one step for time and neglect. Efforts continue to revive the remaining wells with the works that started on the ‘Dakshina Pushkarani’, one of the seven steps wells.

Following the permissions from the Foundations Department, SAHE NGO is working on the project with the Rain Water Project and Heritage Project financed by the Paramparaa Foundation.

Vegetation was performed to clean the intensive growth surrounding the unreachable well. It followed irrigation and desilding.

A 32 -meter silt was removed from the well. Rainwater Project founder Kalpana Ramesh told Deccan Chronicle, “We have built charging pits to improve water drain in the well. We will understand the water pattern storage. The sensors will monitor the water levels in the well,” he said.

After the first cleaning and water rejuvenation, it works on the structural restoration that protects the original character of the well. The protection architects in the project resulted in the documents and fine drawing of the structure. Using materials such as lime, the structure will be brought back to the original form.

Kalpana Ramesh, “Not every well we restore is about water, to revive the inheritance, culture and community connection. Until the end of this year, the efforts to complete Stepwell Revival,” he added.

Sitarambagh Temple President, who explained the history of the temple. Arvind Kumar Ganeriwal said, “The temple was built by his ancestors coming from Rajasthan to Haydarabad for business. The temple has the architectural style of Rajasthani, Mughal and Europe.”

Dr Ganeriwal, on behalf of the temple administration, in the 1980s, two Stepwell – ‘Pushkarani’ and ‘Pushunda’ has undertaken the cleaning of the cleaning and led to the rise of water levels.

“A step mouth near the veterinary hospital disappeared long ago. I haven’t seen it before. Previously, it was used for water temple rituals from Pushkarani, but now we rely on the two wells in the temple.