Vault A to be opened next week

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The inventorying of vault A, a subterranean structure at the Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple here, would begin by the end of next week. This was decided at a meeting on Friday of the Supreme Court committee on the temple. Sources in the committee said here that the inventorying of this vault may take up to six months. “This vault contains artefacts such as ‘sarappoli mala’, coins, crowns and other jewellery. It cannot be inventoried at the same speed that the others were,” one official associated with the inventorying said. The articles in vault A would be inventoried in exactly the same manner as those in the other vaults. However, there needs to be a slight modification in the security procedure. “We have to take the articles out of the underground chamber and take them to the workstations. The security measures for this process will be devised over the next couple of days,” the official said.