The Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) Department will inspect the Shree Sabhanaykar Temple in Chidambaram on June 7, 8. It has issued notices to Podhu Dixit, who manages the temple, asking them to keep documents related to assets and income ready. and expense records for inspection.
In a communication, C. Jothi, Joint Commissioner, Cuddalore, who also heads a committee constituted by the Commissioner (HR&CE), said that the Podhu Dikshits should co-operate with the committee which had set up records on the above dates in the temple. planned to inspect.
The details sought include income/expenditure records of the temple as on January 1, 2014, audit reports for the same period, details of repair works carried out and ASI clearance for them; the details of the endowment, the assets bequeathed to the same, the income derived from them and the position of the properties; Description of offerings; Details of jewelery and other valuables and properties and their lease holders.
The commissioner had constituted a seven-member committee comprising officers of the department to fine-tune the administration of the temple and provide recommendations for the same. This was done under the powers derived from Sections 23 and 33 of the HR&CE Act, 1959, following complaints from a section of devotees that they were being prevented from having darshan of the deity. Mismanagement of accounts was one of the other complaints.