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The full gross of the Hasanamba temple successful Hassan has gone up to ₹25.59 crore aft the currency and donations offered done the ‘hundi’ were counted connected Friday.
Cash collected done the ‘hundi’ amounted to ₹3,68,12,275. Besides that, 75.3 gm of golden items and astir 1 kg of metallic items were offered by devotees during the Hasanamba festival, which concluded connected Thursday.
Through the merchantability of tickets and prasad, the temple had collected ₹21.91 crore. This is the highest magnitude collected by the temple during the Hasanamba festival, which is celebrated annually. Last year, the temple earned ₹12.64 crore, which included ₹2.55 crore from ‘hundi’ collections.
Interestingly, galore devotees person dropped demonetised currency notes of look worth ₹42,530 into the ‘hundi’. Apart from that, overseas currency worthy ₹7,653 was besides collected astatine the temple.
The counting of currency and different valuables was conducted nether the supervision of K.S. Lathakumari, Deputy Commissioner; and J.B. Maruthi, Assistant Commissioner, who is besides the head of the temple. The territory medication besides progressive officers from assorted departments and slope officials successful the counting of cash.
Mr. Maruthi told presspersons that implicit 350 personnel, including 50 slope officials, were progressive successful the counting process. The gross postulation doubled this twelvemonth owed to measures taken by the territory medication nether the enactment of Revenue Minister Krishna Byre Gowda, who is besides the Minister successful complaint of the district, helium added. “This time, the introduction of walk holders was streamlined. In the past, officers allowed galore radical to participate the temple each the time. However, determination were strict measures successful spot this twelvemonth to guarantee a creaseless ‘darshan’ for the devotees. These measures resulted successful the summation of revenue,” Mr. Maruthi said.
More than 26 lakh radical visited the temple during the festival this year.
