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Temple employees demand foolproof law

KOZHIKODE: The Malabar Temple Employees’ Joint Council has suggested that the proposed Malabar Devaswom Board law must have strong provisions to deal with the “widespread corruption, nepotism and unilateralism now rampant in the administration of temples.”

In a statement here on Wednesday, council president N. Damodaran Moosad and general secretary M.V. Sasi alleged that there were many unhealthy practices prevalent in the administration of temples here.

The Hindu Religious and Endowment Act had failed to address these issues and it was in the fitness of things that the Malabar Devaswom Board had stipulations to plug the existing loopholes, they said.

The council wanted the traditional trustees divested of all powers in temple administration. The temple employees must be brought under the direct supervision of the Devaswom Board and action must be initiated in cases of misrule in temples managed by traditional trustees.

The council suggested a full-fledged census of temple employees, provision for audit of accounts, doing away with corruption-ridden administration committees, consultation with temple employees’ associations on matters relating to benefits and welfare measures, among other steps.

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