After Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple, which had shot to fame years in the past for its priceless belongings discovered stored in secret vaults, one other Hindu shrine in Kerala is now hogging the limelight because of the belongings and properties price crores in its title.

The famed Guruvaur Sree Krishna Temple on this central district possesses financial institution deposits to the tune of Rs 1,737.04 crore and land of 271.05 acres, in line with an RTI reply.

Although the temple additionally reportedly has an immense assortment of gold, silver and treasured stones, obtained as providing from devotees, the shrine administration refused to expose particulars and the worth resulting from safety causes, it mentioned.

The centuries-old shrine, the place Lord Vishnu is worshipped as Krishna, attracts 1000’s of individuals from throughout the nation yearly.

Particulars of the temple’s belongings got here to gentle following a RTI question filed by M Okay Haridas, a local of Guruvayur and president of an organisation named ”Correct Channel”.

As per the RTI reply, given by the Guruvayur Devaswom, the temple has 271.0506 acres of land however its worth is but to be assessed by the administration.

The shrine has an quantity of Rs 1737,04,90,961 as deposit in numerous banks, it mentioned as a reply to a different query.

The Devaswom (temple administration) knowledgeable that it has obtained no monetary help until date after the Pinarayi Vijayan authorities got here to energy in 2016.

It additionally made it clear that the shrine is but to obtain in return Rs 10 crore, which had been contributed by the Devaswom to the Chief Minister’s misery reduction fund following the floods in 2018-19, regardless of a Excessive Court docket order on this regard.

A hardcore devotee of ”Guruvayurappan” (how the principal deity of the shrine is popularly generally known as), Haridas mentioned fixed neglect and inaction of the temple devaswom by way of the event of the shrine and the welfare of its devotees compelled him to hunt these particulars via an RTI question.

”The shrine has whopping financial institution deposits and different belongings. Nonetheless the Guruvayur Devaswom is doing nothing for the temple and its devotees,” he instructed PTI.

The administration has been working a hospital close to the shrine however its situation and maintenance have been so pathetic, he alleged.

He additionally criticised the Devaswom over the distribution of ‘prasadam’ and their reluctance to arrange a backyard to supply flowers for the day by day rituals and providing within the shrine. Although the Tirupati (Lord Venkateswara) temple is the richest shrine, its administration had no points in declaring its belongings intimately in several classes like how a lot gold and so forth, he mentioned.

Nonetheless, the devaswom authorities are but to react to the allegations.

An enormous assortment of invaluable articles, together with uncommon jewels, stone-studded crowns, heaps of gold and silver cash, idols and gold, silver and brass platters and lamps, had been discovered within the secret vaults of Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram throughout a Supreme Court docket-directed stock a decade in the past. Although its precise worth is but to be made public, it was reportedly estimated to be Rs one lakh crore.

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