‘Some trustees thwarting bid to grant powers to Malabar Devaswom Board’

The Kerala State Temple Employees Coordination Committee has claimed that a section of “corrupt” temple trustees and officials are trying to thwart the State government’s move to give full institutional autonomy to the Malabar Devaswom Board.

Functionaries of the committee, such as V.V. Sreenivasan, chairman, M.V. Sasi, vice-chairman, and P. Sreejish Nambeesan, joint convener, said on Sunday (November 1) that the temples in the Malabar region were still under the Madras Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Act, 1951. Though the Kerala High Court and later the Supreme Court issued orders seeking a change in the situation, the successive governments had been sitting on them, they alleged.