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Minister for Transport and Muzrai Ramalinga Reddy said astatine a property league present connected Thursday that the 398 A-grade and B-grade temples successful the State bask autonomy successful the medication of temples, including hiking seva rates, and the authorities does not interfere successful their administration.
Asked astir the summation successful charges of antithetic sevas astatine the Kateel Shri Durga Parameshwari temple, Mr. Reddy said that revision of seva charges has been allowed by the Congress authorities successful 14 temples based connected the petition of respective temple absorption committees. The temple committees person cited a hike successful rates of coconut, flower, camphor, and agarbatti to marque a assertion for hiking the rates of sevas. The past clip the rates of sevas were accrued astatine Kukke Subrahmanya temple was successful 2010 erstwhile the BJP was successful power, helium said.
He said that the authorities has thing to bash with the hike successful rates of sevas astatine the Kateel temple. “We bash not interfere arsenic determination is simply a tribunal bid too. The medication of the Kateel temple is straight nether the committee. When the temple committee accrued the complaint of sevas, the BJP started blaming the Congress government,” helium said.
The instrumentality pertaining to the State Dharmika Parishat was introduced successful 1997, and the aforesaid was implemented successful 2003. All the 398 A and B people temples successful Karnataka person presidents and 8 members successful temple absorption committees. Since 2003, the gross of 1 temple cannot beryllium diverted to another. The State treasury, too, does not person funds from temples. The BJP has been campaigning against the authorities lone for governmental gain, Reddy alleged.
