Overview
- Vice President C. P. Radhakrishnan inaugurated the Sri Kashi Nattukottai Nagar Satram dharamshala in Varanasi with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath present.
- The 10‑storey, 140‑room complex, built for about ₹60 crore by the managing society, includes 76 solar lamps that organisers say will save roughly ₹25 lakh a year.
- Speakers cast the facility as serving pilgrims and renewing cultural bonds between Tamil Nadu and Kashi.
- Radhakrishnan said religion may face temporary crises but endures, and he credited Narendra Modi and Yogi Adityanath with Kashi’s transformation.
- Officials placed the opening within a wider Varanasi upgrade estimated at ₹51,000 crore, with about ₹34,000 crore completed and ₹16,000 crore in progress.