{"id":3767,"date":"2003-12-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/12\/06\/2003-12-06-in-unprecedented-sale-mother-teresa-women-s-university-buys-meenakshi-temple-land-in-madurai\/"},"modified":"2003-12-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-06T12:00:00","slug":"2003-12-06-in-unprecedented-sale-mother-teresa-women-s-university-buys-meenakshi-temple-land-in-madurai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/12\/06\/2003-12-06-in-unprecedented-sale-mother-teresa-women-s-university-buys-meenakshi-temple-land-in-madurai\/","title":{"rendered":"In Unprecedented Sale, Mother Teresa Women&#8217;s University Buys Meenakshi Temple Land in Madurai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.newindpress.com\/NewsItems.asp?ID=IET20031205022913&#038;Title=Southern+New\\s+%2D+Tamil+Nadu&#038;rLink=0\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>MADURAI, INDIA, December 5, 2003: The Tamil Nadu Government&#8217;s Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment (HR&#038;CE) has approved the unprecedented sale of lands of the famed Arulmighu Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple to the Mother Teresa Women&#8217;s University, Kodaikanal. The university has purchased 2.29 acres of lands owned by the temple in Valayangulam at a cost of US$20,000 to house its extension center in Madurai where several post-graduate programs are offered to the girl-students under the regular stream. Speaking at a joint press conference convened by University Vice-Chancellor Anandavalli Mahadevan and HR&#038;CE Joint Commissioner P Baskaran on Thursday, the VC said that a proposal on land acquisition was sent in July, 2002, and the orders were received in September last facilitating registration process, which was completed on Thursday. Baskaran defended the sale, &#8220;For the very first time, some land of the Meenakshi temple has been sold, but for a cause. The sale was done as per guidelines. The proposal got a nod as it would help women&#8217;s empowerment. The land yielded an annual revenue of $87 from tamarind trees.&#8221; <BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceMADURAI, INDIA, December 5, 2003: The Tamil Nadu Government&#8217;s Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment (HR&#038;CE) has approved the unprecedented sale,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}