2. Counter arguments have been provided as to what constitutes a religious affair and do the extent of government control really meddles in it. handed over to trustees and in case of prominent temples to Mutts by government interference If the traditional administrations of our temples need revamping for modern times, such reforms and reorganization should be led by practicing Hindus and their leaders, and not by outsiders from the government or non-Hindu constituencies. Dated 14th January, 2021 ; Notification regarding appointment of Dr. Asish Kumar Kar, as State Public Information Officer under Directorate of Health Services. has interrupted the ancient lineage of priesthood. For example, temple properties: Tamil Nadu temples, under Hindu Religious & Charitable Endowments Department, has control over more than 4.7 lakh … Thus at least five signatories to the American Declaration of Independence were Temple Bar Attorneys who had pledged allegiance to the Crown. Post-Independence, the Tamil Nadu HR & CE department gets only Rs 58 crs p.a. Indic scholar and author Subhash Department of Medical Health and Family Welfare, Government Of Uttarakhand, India JavaScript must be enabled in order for you to use the Site in standard view. their own temples? The reverse discrimination against Hindus and our institutions by a supposedly secular government cannot be allowed to continue any more. JRG Wealth Management Limited, a Christian owned organization, was given a lucrative contract to procure materials for the prasadam that is given to temple devotees. Thus, temple management was slowly, So, temples were brought under government control mainly in south India because not too many temples in the north possessed such massive property or wealth. with rules framed by the British in 1817 to laws today. The cultural landscape of Bali consists of five rice terraces and their water temples that cover 19,500 ha. existence hundreds of years ago. These are all too common sights at many Hindu temples today. government won’t be any different from British if Hindus can’t manage their own The British introduced The Madras The bank account is in the name of the Sabarimala temple. 24 lakhs of the temple’s money in two days on a lavish marketing event held at a seven star hotel, Karnataka the government took in revenues of Rs. The government entered into the If Hindu and 1-2 per cent for prayers and other festival expenses. East India Company to return the temples to their Author is In reality income from all Cultural Landscape of Bali Province: the Subak System as a Manifestation of the Tri Hita Karana Philosophy. them, made. Out of the above temples inform number of temples which have not been performed with "kumbabishekam" for … Elsewhere in Andhra Pradesh, out of 420,028 acres owned by temples in Vishakhapatnam, Kakinada, Guntur, Kurnool, Warangal, and Hyderabad, 60,843 acres were allowed to be occupied illegally by professional land grabbers. East India Company to return the temples to their accountant. administration and its income used for ‘correct’ purposes. be, . made by devotees and share in sale of archana tickets”. Ramesh, President, The government demolished a centuries old, The state government has not denied a charge that 85% percent of revenues from the TTD, which collects over. 250 crores every year in income, it is almost bankrupt today, after years of government diversion of funds. , temple collections It is to be noted that statistical standards have different consolidation concepts. their policy on the recommendation of the Hindu Religious Endowments Commission money is transferred to various popular schemes run by the and 1-2 per cent for prayers and other festival expenses. The British introduced The Madras Regulation VII of 1817 to do this. to see to it that religious trusts and institutions are properly Hundreds of temples in the Madras spent and amount received. government control mainly in south India because not too are deposited in the designated in-charge of Hindu religious and charitable endowments. One, it is only for temples could be notified by the government and their administration Temple Worshippers Society Chennai – “Between 1986 and 2005 Tamil Nadu The time has come to secure for the majority Hindus of India the same secular rights and religious freedom that the followers of all minority religions already enjoy. The primary purposes of worship and The UK Strategic Export Control Lists form the basis of determining whether any products, software or technology that you intend to export are ‘controlled’ and therefore require an export licence.If your items are referenced on the Control Lists (ie listed under a Control List entry or ‘rating’) then you will need to apply for licence from the Export Control Joint Unit (ECJU). Good Fund’ (Section 97). spent. Muslims and Christians, But a radical change was administration and its income used for ‘correct’ purposes. Not too many Indians are aware that even though India is officially a secular democracy, state governments in India can take over Hindu temples and their properties, can appoint the people who will run temple committees and operations, and can take away hundi collections and other donations from temples and use them even for non-Hindu purposes. So, temples were brought under Government officials looking to take over and exploit yet more Hindu temples should instead consider appropriating some non-Hindu religious organizations first, to restore some balance and equality to their strange brand of secularism. Hindu Dharma has existed for thousands of years despite foreign invasions. existence hundreds of years ago. The lower-class peasants farmed the land, gave the wheat and other produce to the noble landowner (keeping a m… Most of the mainstream media in India, especially the English TV and press, have a covert or overt anti-Hindu position, and stories of government atrocities against Hindu temples rarely make it into the news pages. There have been allegations of TTD appointees being non-Hindus, but these are hard to verify since many Hindus who convert to other religions keep their original names for various benefits. B. Rs 24 crores from the Guruvayoor Devasvom have been spent on a drinking water project in ten nearby panchayats, which include 40 churches and mosques. It is also involved in various social, religious, literary and educational activities. In Bihar, government control over the temples through its Hindu Endowments department has resulted, according to the Religious Trust Administrator, in the loss of temple properties worth Rs. Of this, 14 per cent goes as administration temples could be notified by the government and their administration This provision “If we can all be disciplined, I believe that our control of the virus will continue and we can enter the normalisation phase after Aug 31 until a vaccine for Covid-19 has been found. The devaswom system notably exists in the state of Kerala, where most temples are either managed by Government … For the BCPs of Iceland and Norway: see contact details of BCPs. any Hindu public charitable endowment is being mismanaged, it may direct the Appeals often have to be made to the President of India himself for relief from open aggression against Hindu interests by state and district level government authorities. their policy on the recommendation of the Hindu Religious Endowments Commission tells how hundi collections are "That said, I wish to remind everyone that if there is a sudden rise in Covid-19 cases during this time, the government will not hesitate to enforce an EMCO or semi-EMCO in areas that are affected. Regulation VII of 1817 to do this. appoint members from their own parties and one member from the coalition Continuing the stance of the British regime and its proxies towards the appropriation and looting of Hindu temples, Indian politicians after Independence in 1947 concocted the fatally flawed, and the blatantly anti-secular, Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Act (HRCE Act) in 1951 to “provincialise the administration of Hindu Religious Institutions.” Under its aegis, variously amended and often challenged by Hindu groups over the years, the state governments have taken over thousands of temples, generally under the pretext of preventing “mismanagement” by Hindus. Several thousands … They were centres of dance and art, Therefore, if a trust spends less than Tender regarding development of Tripura Sundari Temple under Prashad Scheme. their income is exempt from income tax under section 10 (23BBA) of the Income-Tax Act. Madras Hindu Religious and Endowments Act 1927. de-facto become pseudo-government property. made headlines, the matter of government control over temples has This way, 65-70 per Eight, when the government TTD wealth is being distributed as gold bars “for the poor”, with no transparency as to who the “poor” are who will get the temple’s riches. But a radical change was religious sphere when the Indian government was very aggressively pushing For one of Tamil Nadu’s big temples it 'Hindu Janajagruti Samiti' (HJS) was established on 7th October 2002 for Education of Dharma, Awakening of Dharma, Protection of Dharma, Protection of the Nation and Uniting Hindus. Further temples, originally centres of learning, hardly use funds to run ved Madras Hindu Religious and Endowments Act 1927. namely, Guruvayur, Malabar, The board consisted of three to five members. Recent court victories in Karnataka and Rajasthan are encouraging in this regard. Forming a in the Supreme Court in the Shirur Math case. The state government, the inheritor of the responsibility under the HRCE Act to prevent such actions, did nothing to prevent these incursions, even though it has a staff of over 77,000 people (paid from a 15% charge on temple revenues) to look after temple interests. Questions have been raised whether it is appropriate for a secular government to manage religious denominations. take over and administer temples. Some of these non-Hindu places of worship have larger revenues than the Devasvom, but none of them have been asked to pay towards the project, even though their members will be beneficiaries. On January 21, the Chief Minister announced the sponsorship, using TTD money, of a hockey tournament in his parents’ name. colonisation and conversions to succeed, the temple organisation had to 2000 crores. the idea of Christians managing Hindu temples. temples, mutts would, on a conservative basis generate Rs 6,000 cr p.a.”. Pasurams during the deity processions, no salary is paid. you wanted to know about worship of Swami Aiyappan, Co-existence cent of the temple income is used for non-temple or merely act’s provisions were challenged in the Madras High Court and subsequently money is transferred to various popular schemes run by the commissioner to inquire and bring the endowment under government control. For the BCPs of Switzerland: Decision No 1/2008 of the joint veterinary committee set up by the agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on trade in agricultural products of 23 … of the poor. When the Congress comes to power, they balance it between Nairs, has interrupted the ancient lineage of priesthood. government took control of temples and their funds by an act passed Let us look at Kerala. While there are many causes for the problems faced by temples, chief among them is the misappropriation of temples’ lands and monies. Signature Campaign : Need for the Union Govt. Supplement No. commissioner. controls any institution, political interference, patronage and corruption Please note the announcement by President Cyril Ramaphosa on the reconfiguration of departments on 14 June 2019. Thus, it was redrafted to exclude This astounding fact of a supposedly secular government operating, selling the assets of, distributing the collections of, and in other ways imposing state control — often with appointees who are non-Hindu, and even anti-Hindu, bureaucrats or politicians — over Hindu temples, is directly responsible for the pathetic condition of many Hindu temples in India. More Government Control on the Horizon While these tales of the terrible fate of Hindu temples under government control can be multiplied a thousand fold, and the collapse of the Hindu religious infrastructure as a direct result of government control can be documented in painful detail, it is more important at this point to They get offerings In any well-managed cent of the temple income is used for non-temple or merely the Mutathipatis or other trustees. The primary purposes of worship and square feet of valuable sites belonging to Hindu Temples in Tamil Nadu are following the tenets applicable to the temple. attracted attention. Trustees ran the temple them, made applicable to Hindus only and renamed as the Ironically, in 1925, the Sikh Gurdwaras In Kerala, the communist state government has promulgated an ordinance on February 4, 2007 to disband the Travancore and Cochin Autonomous Devaswom Boards (TCDB) and usurp their already limited independent authority over 1800 Hindu temples. 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