The Hindu : Annadhanam in 18 more temples

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Saturday, Apr 12, 2003

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Annadhanam in 18 more temples

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI APRIL 11. The `Annadhanam' scheme will be extended to 18 more Hindu temples from April 14, Tamil New Year Day, the Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, told the Assembly today.

With these, the number of temples covered would go up to 162. Among the temples where the scheme would be launched next week are the Agastheeswarar and Prasanna Venkatesa Perumal temple at Nungambakkam (Chennai district), the Suriyanar Koil at Thiruvidaimaruthur (Thanjavur), the Vaitheeswaran temple, Vaitheeswaran Koil (Nagapattinam), the Nagaraja temple at Nagercoil (Kanyakumari), the Selleeswarar temple at Andhiyur (Erode) and the Kasiviswanathaswamy temple-Sukavaneswarar temple (Salem).

In all the 18 temples, the Sunday spiritual classes would also be conducted.

The Chief Minister also said the Government had issued orders permitting the Special Commissioner of the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments department to transfer a surplus money of Rs. 20 crores from the corpus of eight temples to the Annadhanam fund.

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