Part XII · Miscellaneous Financial Provisions

Article 290A Annual payment to certain Devaswom Funds.

This article provides for the Devaswom Funds. A fixed annual sum is charged on the Consolidated Fund of Kerala for the Devaswom Funds of temples. A similar charge exists for Tamil Nadu. These payments support temple funds as the Constitution fixed them.

1. A sum of forty-six lakhs and fifty thousand rupees shall be charged on, and paid out of, the Consolidated Fund of the State of Kerala every year to the Travancore Devaswom Fund; and a sum of thirteen lakhs and fifty thousand rupees shall be charged on, and paid out of, the Consolidated Fund of the State of Tamil Nadu every year to the Devaswom Fund established in that State for the maintenance of Hindu temples and shrines in the territories transferred to that State on the 1st day of November, 1956, from the State of Travancore-Cochin.

अनुच्छेद 290A हिन्दी में