Thrissur : The Guruvayur Devaswom has rejected Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) request to provide them details of gold assets of the famous Sri Krishna temple in Thrissur.
"RBI had requested the Guruvayur Devaswom Managing Committee (GDMC) to provide details of gold stock in its possession as part of collecting the gold assets of places of religious worship in the country," Devaswom Administrator K Muraleedharan said.
The Devaswom has already communicated to the RBI, its inability to provide the details as it was 'impractical' to assess the gold stock correctly, he told PTI Thrissur on Sunday.
The state Government constituted GDMC's term expired about two months ago and is now being managed by an ad hoc committee, comprising permanent members, including Devswom Commissioner Dr V M Gopala Menon and the Administrator.
The Devaswom did not provide the information on the grounds that it was not bound to give it to trusts and other institutions, Council's president, Soman Pillai said.
RBI spokesperson Alpana Killawala had admitted they had written to temple board in Kerala, but clarified that the objective of the letter was to collect data and that the September 1 statement of RBI had said there was no proposal under its consideration (to buy gold and bullion from temples)."
"RBI had requested the Guruvayur Devaswom Managing Committee (GDMC) to provide details of gold stock in its possession as part of collecting the gold assets of places of religious worship in the country," Devaswom Administrator K Muraleedharan said.
The Devaswom has already communicated to the RBI, its inability to provide the details as it was 'impractical' to assess the gold stock correctly, he told PTI Thrissur on Sunday.
The state Government constituted GDMC's term expired about two months ago and is now being managed by an ad hoc committee, comprising permanent members, including Devswom Commissioner Dr V M Gopala Menon and the Administrator.
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The Devaswom did not provide the information on the grounds that it was not bound to give it to trusts and other institutions, Council's president, Soman Pillai said.
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RBI spokesperson Alpana Killawala had admitted they had written to temple board in Kerala, but clarified that the objective of the letter was to collect data and that the September 1 statement of RBI had said there was no proposal under its consideration (to buy gold and bullion from temples)."
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