The federal government may also overview the choice to kind the Board, Tirath Singh Rawat stated
Haridwar: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat on Friday reversed his predecessor’s determination and determined to take away the administration of 51 temples from the management of the Char Dham Devasthanam Board and rethink its formation.
“I’ve determined to take out of the Devasthanam Board’s ambit 51 temples which had been introduced beneath it,” Tirath Singh Rawat informed reporters after a gathering with seers amid the continued Kumbh Mela right here.
The federal government may also overview the choice to kind the Board, he added.
Arrange throughout former Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat’s time period, the Devasthanam Board was assigned the administration of 51 temples of the state, together with the 4 well-known Himalayan shrines of Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri and Yamunotri.
The formation of the panel by laws in December 2019 had not gone down effectively with the seers and “teerth–purohits” who felt their conventional rights over the temples had suffered due to it.
They’d additionally complained that the state authorities had not taken them in confidence earlier than taking such a significant determination that impacts them immediately.
Regardless of repeated assurances by former Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat that sufficient safeguards had been taken within the legislation invoice to guard the rights of “teerth–purohits“, the clergymen within the state, together with these in Uttarkashi, had been agitated over the difficulty.
A few of them had even approached BJP chief Subramanian Swamy who later moved the Uttarakhand Excessive Court docket difficult the federal government’s determination to take over the management of temples.
Stating the target of the Invoice within the state meeting, Tourism Minister Satpal Maharaj had stated the creation of a board like this was needed for higher administration of the temples.
