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| October 20, 2010 | Shirdi's Sai Baba temple goes green with solar steam cooking system | |
Shirdi: The Sai Baba temple in Maharashtra's Shirdi town has gone green as 'prasadam'in the temple kitchens are prepared through solar-steam cooking system for thousands of devotees. The main goal of the Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust was to reduce the use of Liquefied Petroleum
Gas (LPG) by 50 percent. The Chairman of the trust, Jayant Sasane, said that beside
environmental benefits, the solar kitchen proved cheaper in the long run and offered
the advantage of uninterrupted cooking. "Our effort has always been to be considerate
about the environment. We use 30 percent of solar energy used in India. We have
built our own infrastructure to harness both solar energy and wind energy," said
Sasane. Devotees appreciated the food being served at the 'Prasadalaya'. "About
10,000 to 20,000 devotees daily come to eat the prasadam. Food is distributed
here from morning to late till night," said Sushma Singh, a devotee from Delhi
. Shirdi is the third spiritual centre after Andhra Pradesh's Tirupati temple
and Brahma Kumari Spiritual Trust in Mount Abu, a mountain peak in Rajasthan,
to have solar systems for cooking 'prasadam' for devotees.
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