Minister for Hindu Spiritual and Charitable Endowments (HR and CE) P.Okay. Sekarbabu, on Sunday, mentioned an professional committee had detected not less than 30 violations in Chidambaram Nataraja temple.
After launching the Entire Day Prasadam Scheme at 5 extra temples, he mentioned the report of the committee comprising three archaeological specialists and two Extra Commissioners can be submitted to the Madras Excessive Courtroom. The violations included constructions carried out with none prior permission and lack of payments for purchases.
On the problem of devotees not being allowed on the Kanaka Sabha, he mentioned for the reason that HR and CE Division didn’t wish to take a confrontational stance in direction of the Podhu Dikshitars, it had filed a criticism with the police.
The Entire Day Prasadam Scheme was on Sunday launched in 5 temples, together with Sri Parthasarathy Perumal temple in Triplicane, Arunachaleswarar temple in Tiruvannamalai, Kalla Azhagar temple and Ramanathaswamy temple in Rameshwaram, and Subramanya Swamy temple at Thirupparankundram.
The scheme was already being applied in 15 temples and the price for increasing the scheme to all 20 temples can be ₹25 crore per yr. Prasadam comparable to puliyodarai, chakkarai pongal, thayir saadham, kesari, and venn pongal can be distributed to devotees every time the temples had been open, Mr. Sekarbabu added.
He mentioned the Day-long Annadhanam Scheme would quickly be inaugurated in three extra temples – Mahaliamman temple at Aanamalai, Devi Bhavaniamman temple at Periyapalayam, and Sri Angala Parameswariamman at Melmalayanur. At current, round 92,000 devotees had been benefiting each day from the scheme, for which a complete of ₹100 crore was being spent yearly.
In the meantime, Mr. Sekarbabu mentioned donating to temples had turn out to be simpler since on-line cost mode had been supplied for 7,233 temples. This provision, which was obtainable for 47 temples since 2021, has now been expanded. The division has supplied QR codes for 48 temples for devotees to make donations.