LUCKNOW, March 15 -- Despite the perception of LPG crisis amid tension in West Asia, the biggest community kitchen at Ayodhya's Amawa Ram Mandir run by the Mahavir Trust continues to serve pilgrims as it has switched to coal furnaces.

Around 15,000 pilgrims come to the temple for free food daily. The Trust serves them breakfast, lunch and dinner. Breakfast is served from 8:30 am to 10 am, offering four items. Lunch is served from 11 am to 3 pm offering 11 food items, and dinner is served from 7 pm to 9 pm, offering nine items.

To keep the kitchen running, the Trust depended on a daily supply of 35 to 40 LPG cylinders. On March 10, the Trust had to shut the kitchen in the second half due to the LPG crisis. "All of a sudden we had to conf...