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Hyderabad: The Telangana government, on Tuesday, March 18, passed the Telangana Charitable and Hindu Religious Institutions and Endowments (Amendments) Bill during the special Assembly session.
Introducing the bill in the Assembly, state endowments minister Konda Surekha said that it proposes to establish the Yadagirigutta Devasthanams Board in Telangana on the lines of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) Trust Board in Andhra Pradesh, following reports that the temple’s annual revenue was close to Rs 2224 crore.
“The trust’s executive board of Yadagirigutta temple would have 18 members including a member from Scheduled Class (SC) and Backward Class (BC) communities as well as a woman representative along with a MLA or MLC. It will function similarly to the TTD board, managing and running educational institutions, vedic schools, and gaushalas,” she said.
The bill proposes Temple City of the 1,241 acres of Yadagirigutta temple land covering three municipalities, and six villages under three gram panchayats. “Activities like begging, grazing of livestock, consumption of drugs, gambling, and running businesses without licenses will be prohibited in the Temple City,” she said.
Minister Konda Surekha said that the state government will establish a Hindu Dharmika Prachara Parishad with an annual budget of Rs 1 crore for dharmic activities.
She informed the Assembly that Telangana has currently 12,434 temples under the endowments out of which 156 fell under Section 6 (a), 377 under Section 6 (b), 11,780 under Section 6 (c), and 101 were Mutts falling under Section 6 (d).
Alair Congress MLA Beerla Ilaiah criticised the previous Bharat Rashtra Samithi government for failing to establish any facilities at the Yadagirigutta temple during its tenure.
BRS defends Yadagirigutta development
BRS MLA Vemula Prashanth Reddy shot back at the allegations stating K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR), during his term as chief minister, ensured the temple was reconstructed with the finest details. “Let me remind the Assembly that when KCR was the chief minister, he instructed the sanctum sanctorum, sapthatala gopuram and bangaru thapidam was built with 100 percent ‘Krishnasila‘ stone.’ In fact, at one point, 400 sculptors were engaged in carving the gopuram which your government inaugurated,” he said, adding, that 60 kg of gold was generously denoted for the gopuram.
“Additionally, the BRS government ensured that the pushkarini located in Yadagirigutta would enable 8,000 devotees to take a bath at any given point in time. We installed a water treatment plant, which can treat the water after 50,000 devotees have bathed,” he said.
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