‘266 kg of gold lost from Padmanabhaswamy temple’ Krishnadas Rajagopal

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The audit report prepared by the former Comptroller and Auditor General of India Vinod Rai on the Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple in Kerala shows that huge quantities of gold were lost when it was outside for purification work. The report, filed before the Supreme Court, revealed that of a total of 893.644 kg of gold given to contractor for melting and purification in connection with gold ornamentation work, only 627.372 kg was returned.



“The loss in the process being 266.272 kg (30 per cent),” Mr. Rai pointed out in his report to the apex court. The report said there was a complete “absence” of a system of weighing and ascertaining the purity of gold articles by temple authorities before they were handed over to outside agencies. In fact, temple authorities “merely relied on the weight and purity reported by the contractor,” Mr. Rai said in his report.



He said that “excess consumption/loss” on conversion of pure gold to 90 per cent gold was 10.4 kg with a present value of Rs.2.89 crore.


Again, the fate of 14.629 kg of 24 carat gold rakes and 1.938 kg of pure gold of an approximate value of Rs.4.8 crore handed over to outside agencies for purification work four years ago is not known.


The loss is not just in gold. The last Murajapom (a festival conducted once in six years) concluded on January 14, 2014, but the calf elephant to be offered to the deity reached around January 27-28. The temple authorities had obviously not fixed the date on which the elephant was supposed to reach the temple. The loss calculated due to this was Rs.35 lakh.

?266 kg of gold lost from Padmanabhaswamy temple? - The Hindu

 

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Won't it be more useful to say how much is left

IF something is still left behind???

 

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More masala news. How many years have passed since the first PIL? This is another chase or witch-hunt, and the supreme court will never get to the bottom of it. This is not BCCI or IPL!

What most news reports did not tell you about the 'missing gold' in Padmanabha Swamy temple

"Media reports said that according to the audit report, 893.44 kg gold was taken out and given to the contractor for purification, but only 627.37 kg pure gold was returned.
"Though the news has shocked many, what is important to note is that the disappearance of the gold is not something which happened recently.
In fact the gold was taken out on a total of 82 occasions between 1990 to 2001, and this was not mentioned in most news reports.
Rai has also pointed that the temple’s mysterious cellar B, one of the six cellars which has temple gold and other valuables, had been opened 7 times earlier.
Historian and the author of a book on history of Shree Padmanabhaswamy temple, Malayankeezhu Gopalakrishnan says that many misdeeds happened during those 11 years.
"The report also pointed out that 24-carat gold rakes weighing 14.6 kg and 1.9 kg of pure gold with an approximate value of Rs 4.8 crore was missing after it was handed over to a contractor more than four years ago.

"The audit report also criticized the Travancore Royal family for not acting responsible. “It is not sure that who has taken the gold for purification, whether it was royal family or the government officers, there is a lot of confusion over this issue,” the historian said.

Won't it be more useful to say how much is left

IF something is still left behind???