Although the temple additionally reportedly has an immense assortment of gold, silver and valuable stones, acquired as providing from devotees, the shrine administration refused to disclose particulars and the worth on account of safety causes, it stated.

The centuries-old shrine, the place Lord Vishnu is worshipped as Krishna, attracts hundreds 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 ₹1737,04,90,961 as deposit in varied banks, it stated as a reply to a different query.

The Devaswom (temple administration) knowledgeable that it has acquired 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 ₹10 crore, which had been contributed by the Devaswom to the Chief Minister’s misery aid 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 often called), Haridas stated fixed neglect and inaction of the temple devaswom when it comes to the event of the shrine and the welfare of its devotees pressured him to hunt these particulars by way of 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 operating a hospital close to the shrine however its situation and maintenance had 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 each 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 stated.

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 ₹1 lakh crore.