New Delhi: The consecration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya will take place on January 14, the day of Makar Sankranti, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be invited to attend the ceremony, media reports said.

The rituals will be carried on for 10 days and efforts will be made to broadcast the consecration ceremony across the country and also abroad.

According to reports, the ground floor of the temple, which is scheduled to be completed by October, will be reserved for "Ram Katha" once the four-storey temple is completed.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the temple construction on August 5, 2020.

The temple is expected to be a milestone for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which considers the temple movement a basis for its emergence as a national electoral force in the 1990s.

The construction at the site started in August 2020 after the Supreme Court ended decades of a legal tussle with a milestone verdict in 2019 that went in favour of a temple.

Around four lakh cubic feet of stone and marble from Rajasthan will be used for the structure, which will tower 161 feet over the sanctum sanctorum as there will be no use of steel or bricks.

The other structures inside the complex will include a Shiva temple on the Kuber mound and the statue of Jatayu, which are expected to attract devotees.

The complex will also include a pilgrim facilitation centre, museum, archives, research centre, auditorium, cattle shed, a place for rituals, an administrative building and rooms for priests.