{"id":8565,"date":"2009-12-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/12\/16\/priests-remuneration-revised-and-extended-to-3600-temples\/"},"modified":"2009-12-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T12:00:00","slug":"priests-remuneration-revised-and-extended-to-3600-temples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/12\/16\/priests-remuneration-revised-and-extended-to-3600-temples\/","title":{"rendered":"Priests&#8217; Remuneration Revised and Extended To 3,600 Temples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expressbuzz.com\/edition\/story.aspx?Title=Priests+remuneration+extended+to+3,600+temples&#038;artid=BcMREOuzB2Y=&#038;SectionID=Qz\/kHVp9tEs=&#038;MainSectionID=Qz\/kHVp9tEs=&#038;SEO=&#038;SectionName=UOaHCPTTmuP3XGzZRCAUTQ==\">www.expressbuzz.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BANGALORE, INDIA, December 10, 2009: The Tamil Nadu State government has decided to extend the annual remuneration facility for temple priests to 3,600 temples and also increase the remuneration to Rs 6,000 (US$129) per year. A priest&#8217;s remuneration until today was between Rs 120 to Rs 600 (US$ 2.52 to 12.84) per year.<\/p>\n<p>Home Minister V. S. Acharya on Wednesday told reporters that depending on the financial situation the government is likely to increase the sum to Rs 12,000 (US$257) for the next financial year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.expressbuzz.com BANGALORE, INDIA, December 10, 2009: The Tamil Nadu State government has decided to extend the annual remuneration facility,&#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-8565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8565","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=8565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}