Weeks after promising to loose Hindu temples from executive regulate, the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led Madhya Pradesh executive on Tuesday took the primary large step in opposition to that route after it allowed monks to maintain their livelihood in the course of the source of revenue from temple agricultural land. This might additionally imply that the monks would now not be dependent at the meagre salaries that had been being given by way of the federal government and would be capable to maintain themselves higher.
Ashish Agrawal, the media in command of the BJP state unit, printed that the Cupboard of Leader Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has made up our minds that monks can now make the most of the source of revenue generated from as much as 10 acres of agricultural land related to controlled temples. In a similar way, if the land exceeds 10 acres, the monks will retain the source of revenue from the primary 10 acres and the rest land shall be auctioned for farming, with the proceeds deposited into the temple’s account.
The Cupboard has additionally taken a choice to start up a marketing campaign to loose temple lands from encroachment.
Final 12 months, the Spiritual Trusts and Endowments Division of the Madhya Pradesh executive issued orders to extend the honorarium for monks. Leader Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan introduced that temples and monks with out agricultural land would obtain a per month honorarium of Rs. 5,000.
In a similar way, temples with 5 acres of agricultural land would offer monks with a per month honorarium of Rs. 2,500. On the other hand, monks serving temples with greater than 10 acres of agricultural land would now not obtain any separate wage.
Shivraj Singh Chouhan proclaims freeing Hindu temples from executive regulate
In April 2023, Madhya Pradesh Leader Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had introduced that the state executive won’t regulate any actions of temples.
All the way through a Parshuram Jayanti match in Bhopal, the executive minister mentioned, “Now we have made up our minds that the federal government will relinquish regulate over temple actions, and the public sale of temple land shall be carried out by way of monks as an alternative of creditors.”
हमने फैसला किया है कि मंदिरों की गतिविधियों पर सरकार का कोई नियंत्रण नहीं रहेगा। मंदिर की जमीनों को नीलाम कलेक्टर नहीं बल्कि पुजारी कर सकेंगे।
निजी मंदिरों के पुजारियों को भी सम्मानजनक मानदेय देने की व्यवस्था की जाएगी। %.twitter.com/QiMMREi6MI
— Shivraj Singh Chouhan (@ChouhanShivraj) April 22, 2023
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has lengthy advocated for the liberation of Hindu temples from executive regulate. The RSS has persistently emphasised that Hindu temples are topic to executive oversight and expressed issues that price range generated by way of those temples are being applied for the maintenance of church buildings and mosques.