By our Religious Correspondent
Guruvayur, Jan 22 (IVC) The Guruvayur Devaswom Managing Committee(GDMC) , owners of the famous Sree Krishna Temple here, has disbursed in all Rs 4.84 ( Four crore and eighty-four lakshs) crore to 793 temples said to be economically backward} under the jurisdiction of the GDMC, the official sources said here today.
The sources said that Rs 3.44 crore has disbursed to 541 temples on Jan 21. Earlier , as the first phase of disbursal of funds, Devaswom had paid Rs 1.40 crore to its 542 temples under the Southern Zone last month.
The amount was disbursed by the Kerala’s Minister for Devaswoms , K Radhakrishnan. The minister said on the occasion that the State Government had given Rs 528 crores to four devaswoms in the current fiascal.
Sree Krishna Temple here had a corban collection of Rs 6 crore for a period of one month ending on January 15. Besides , gold weighing 2.415 kg and silver weighing 13.340 kilogram and the corban received by E-mail amounted to Rs 2.07 lakh, the sources added.
The devotees of Guruvayurappan also deposited in the Hundis at the temple the demonetized Indian currency notes to the tune of Rs 1..07 lakh for the period of one month from Decembr 15, 2023 to January 15, 2024 with the denominations of 2000 numbering 45, 40 notes of 1000 and 153 notes of 500, the sources added.
