the idea is wonderful
everybody irrespective of the religion may be beneficiary for the programme, but the ownership should remain with the community which belongs to and the meager profit should go to the temple management
for that all temples should be handed over to the community from the government administration the temples should stop gathering the gold,but should sell and invest in more profitable and community oriented services like education, healthcare etc
the government should provide an equal platform with minority institutions for those initiated by the temple related organisations
Dr.R.C.Sreekumar
Vascular and endovascular surgeon, Trivandrum
Vice President IMA Trivandrum
Secretary, Vascular society of Kerala
Mayookhan, UG 31B, Medical College.P.O, Trivandrum
0471 2557953, 91 9447157953
On 18 September 2013 18:38, kartha chandrasekharan <kckartha@yahoo.com> wrote:
What will happen if the Gold in Temples is made use for some useful purpose like establishing Educational institutions or Hospitals under very able and professional hands. Let some young and enthusiastic doctors
join as a group and make a Co-Operative Society Hospital and serve the very needy and poor people by using this Gold as capital. For that, the Temple management should help them to do so, instead of keeping this gold as a blocked stuff in a locker. The temple should be the ultimate owner of the the Gold and serve the Humanity by using this item. The God will be much happy with this kind of charity.kck
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Subject: Re: [www.keralites.net] Temples now the only hope for gold industry?After looting the people and making them dry these rascals want to loot the temples ! Why temples only? Let them raid all the politicians and they will find huge stock of gold looted from us the citizens.
Ravi
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Subject: [www.keralites.net] Temples now the only hope for gold industry?Temples now the only hope for gold industry?
New Delhi, Sep 16 (IANS) The glitter has gone out of the gold industry and it is hoping for divine intervention - but of a different kind - to breakout from the negative phase. Industry stakeholders feel if India's gold-rich temples part with at least half of their treasure, this will save the government from importing the yellow metal for at least four to five months."I feel that if the temples sell part of their gold, the country do not import gold for five to six months. The consumption of gold in India will remain static, no matter how much the government asks citizens not to buy gold. The market is going through a slump," Harshad Ajmera, a director of the All India Gems Jewellery Trade Federation, told IANS.
A similar sentiment was echoed by Pankaj Parekh, vice chairman, Gems Jewellery Export Promotion Council, who said a partial release of temple gold can not only save the country from foreign exchange outflows but can even help in export earnings."If the temples release some of their gold, the country need not import this for another four-five months. It will be win-win situation for both the government and the temples. The government will save a lot of foreign exchange," he added.
All this is predicated on building consensus between the temples on parting with some of their gold.There were reports that the RBI had sent a circular to some of India's prominent temples seeking details of their gold stocks. Three of the richest temples have, however, denied receiving such a circular.
"We have not received any request from the RBI as of now. The gold is with the treasury department and we cannot give any estimation. We get around Rs.2 crore as hundis (offerings) everyday," a spokesperson of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam in Andhra Pradesh told IANS.Kerala's Sree Padmanabha Swamy temple, which dates back almost 5,000 years, is also believed to have enormous amount of gold, precious stones, rare coins and idols.
"We have not received any letters from the RBI seeking any information regarding the temple gold. We have no estimation of the temple treasury. This temple dates back to thousands of years and offerings to Padmanabhaswamy have been made since then. It is difficult to even hypothetically give any estimation," an executive director of the Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple told IANS.M.V.Nair, chief of the expert committee appointed by the Supreme Court for drawing up an inventory of the temple's wealth, told IANS: "We are asked to document the inventories of the temple. We are reporting directly to the Supreme Court. Our parametres for working are restricted. The Supreme Court will decide what it will do with the findings. We are working in this project for the last one year and hope to complete the project by December."
An official of the Chidambaram Temple in Tamil Nadu also denied of receiving any letter from RBI.The RBI and the government have already adopted many steps to control the import of gold to arrest the current account deficit. The government recently raised customs duty on gold to 10 percent.
Import of gold swelled 87 percent from 205 tonnes in April-July 2012 to 383 tonnes during the corresponding period of 2013. Last year, 900 tonnes of gold was imported. After oil, gold amounts for India's second highest import bill.The current price of gold is around Rs.30,375 per 10 grams. No imports have taken place since July 22.
(Aparajita Gupta can be contacted at aparajita.g@ians)
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