The representative of the Reserve Bank of India, on the five-member committee set up by the Supreme Court to decide on the security, inventory and preservation of the articles inside the vaults of the Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple here, began work on Tuesday. A safety audit was conducted.
Assets, worth hundreds of crores of rupees, were recently discovered in the vaults.
Preservation
The audit is not from a security angle — that job has been taken over by the Kerala police — but one from the perspective of preservation.
At the end of this study, the committee is expected to find out whether these vaults need to be refurbished so that the articles inside are not damaged.
The decision to go ahead with such an inspection was taken at a joint meeting of the five-member committee headed by C.V. Ananda Bose, director general of the National Museum, New Delhi, and the three-member committee headed by the former judge of the Kerala High Court, M.N. Krishnan, held here on Monday.
It was on July 21 that a Supreme Court Bench comprising Justices R.V. Raveendran and A.K. Patnaik appointed two committees, one with five members and the other with three.