Constitution Section 290A — Annual payment to certain Devaswom Funds

Part XII — FINANCE, PROPERTY, CONTRACTS AND SUITS — Miscellaneous Financial Provisions

Constitutional

Summary

Every year, a fixed amount of forty-six lakhs and fifty thousand rupees must be paid from the main government account of Kerala to the Travancore Devaswom Fund. Similarly, a fixed amount of thirteen lakhs and fifty thousand rupees must be paid each year from the main government account of Tamil Nadu to the Devaswom Fund in that state, which is used to maintain Hindu temples and shrines in areas that were transferred to Tamil Nadu from Travancore-Cochin on November 1, 1956.

Official Text

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.