Temple Connect is a platform which bridges the gap between temples and devotees by providing up-to-date information on darshans, puja rituals, nearby attractions, and the overall temple experience. The platform offers insights into the significance and historical context of each temple, explaining how visiting can fulfil pilgrims’ wishes and resolve their problems. This enhances the spiritual journey for all visitors.
Temple Connect also focuses on improving temple administration, operations, and management with in the temple ecosystem. While devotees visit temples for spiritual purposes, the temple management teams ensure a high-quality experience through effective setup and management. This includes optimizing donation processes and transaction systems. Temple Connect collaborates closely with these teams to enhance the visitor experience through better queue management, parking systems, mobile toilet quality, and clear directional markers. Additionally, the platform addresses safety, security, surveillance, disaster planning, fund management, and sustainability. Special attention is given to accommodating senior citizens, mothers with children, and expectant mothers, ensuring a comfortable and secure environment for all.
Temple Connect also ensures special access for quicker darshans and manages donations that are utilized for the welfare of pilgrims and the needy. Renowned temples like Siddhi Vinayak, Shirdi, and Vaishno Devi use these funds to support individuals with medical expenses, providing up to 10,000 Rs per patient in certain cases. Additionally, these temples operate blood banks and medical centres. Temple Connect collaborates with these temples to enhance and support these initiatives, improving the overall quality of services offered to devotees.
Temple Connect integrates modern technology to enhance various educational and support initiatives. Temples have established student libraries and provide financial aid for education to needy students whose parents cannot afford tuition fees. These efforts are managed through temple trusts and administration, which offer extensive facilities for the benefit of pilgrims.
Temple Connect works behind the scenes, ensuring these programs are effectively implemented and evaluating the need for further modern support, thereby fulfilling its mission to assist both devotees and pilgrims comprehensively.
The author is the Founder of Temple Connect & ITCX.
