{"id":3777,"date":"2003-12-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/12\/11\/2003-12-11-karnataka-state-temple-plan-protested\/"},"modified":"2003-12-11T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-11T12:00:00","slug":"2003-12-11-karnataka-state-temple-plan-protested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/12\/11\/2003-12-11-karnataka-state-temple-plan-protested\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka State Temple Plan Protested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.indiatoday.com\/itoday\/20031215\/iscope4.shtml\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>BANGALORE, INDIA, December 10, 2003: The S.M. Krishna Government&#8217;s proposal to take over management of all private and trust-managed temples have raised hackles. Says Sri Vishveshwara Theertha of Udupi Pejawar math: &#8220;This would only give scope for corruption.&#8221; Others are equally upset. Hindu Dharmika Samsthe Hitharakshna Samiti spokesman G.R. Suresh accuses the Government of diverting US$15 million collected from nearly 200,000 temples: only $3 million were given for temple maintenance as against the madarsa-Haj subsidy of $7.5 million (including providing funds for Muslims to pilgrimage to Mecca).<BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nAnother critic of the proposal is Sri Sri Ravi Shankar of the Art of Living. &#8220;The Government, which failed to manage the PSUs (public sector companies, handling business such as textiles and telecommunications), is now eyeing the temples. This dual stand is unacceptable,&#8221; he says. The Udupi seer draws a different parallel. &#8220;When mosques and churches are enjoying total freedom, why does the government need to interfere in the administration of temples?&#8221; he asks. If necessary, it can float an autonomous body to monitor temples, the Swami suggests.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceBANGALORE, INDIA, December 10, 2003: The S.M. Krishna Government&#8217;s proposal to take over management of all private and trust-managed temples,&#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-3777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777","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=3777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}