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The Malabar Devaswom Board Wants To Stop Funding Temple Festivals, And Offerings To Deities And PriestsÂ
by Swarajya Staff - Feb 17, 2021 09:57 AM
Malabar Devaswom Board.
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Temple priests have pointed out that these expenditures can never be called unnecessary, and are part of every temple ritual.
The Devaswom Department of the Kerala government has stated in an order to the Malabar Devaswom Board (MDB) that the expenditure for temple festivals, offerings to deities and priests (donations by devotees) are âunnecessaryâ, and ought to be reduced or stopped altogether.
The MDB was established by the state, and administers more than 1,000 temples across six districts in the northern Malabar region of Kerala.
Attukal pongala to be confined to ‘pandara aduppu’
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Apprehensions over crowd management
Apprehensions over crowd management
The Attukal Bhagavathy Temple Trust has decided to confine the Pongala on February 27 to the ‘pandara aduppu,’ the main hearth, at the Attukal temple, according to trust authorities.
The decision seems to have been taken in the wake of apprehensions over adherence to COVID-19 protocols.
Trust authorities say limiting the Pongala to the temple premises could not preclude overcrowding for entry, thus creating problems for crowd management. People could offer Pongala at their houses, they said.
A high-level meeting chaired by Minister for Devaswom Kadakampally Surendran last week had decided that the annual Pongala, billed the largest congregation of women, would be held within the premises of the temple in compliance with COVID-19 protocols.