Summary:
In such work, people generally adopt lacquer system, but we have used silver and gold rolling system with overfeed technology so that the gold wastage is nil. Once the work for embossing 5,000 silver sheets with gold is completed, devotees will be asked to randomly pick up the sheets, which will be send to the NIT for a purity test. Udupi: The devotees of Krishna Mutt will soon get an opportunity to get the quality of gold and silver being used to adorn the ‘swarna gopura’ tested from the National Institute of Technology, Surathkal. The decision to allow devotees hold a purity test on the materials was taken by pontiff of Palimaru Mutt, Shri Vidyadheesha Teertha Swami.The pontiff believes that the 100kg gold and 800 kg silver being used in the ‘swarna gopura’ work belong to the devotees. Hence the devotees have a right to know that the work is done with utmost transparency..