State/Government Control Of Hindu Temples

STATE/GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF HINDU TEMPLES

How to protect our temples' money? How to ensure financial honesty in our temples? The whole debate is focusing on only one factor: who must control a temple - the government or an independent trust. Swarajya website has done an excellent analysis of this issue. It points out that the most important factor is not who controls a temple - but whether the temple's accounts are regularly audited by an independent auditor. Temples whose accounts are regularly audited by an independent auditor have *not* had any financial scandals - regardless of whether they are controlled by the government or by an independent trust. Whereas temples whose accounts are *not* regularly audited by an independent auditor have had financial scandals - again, regardless of whether they are controlled by the government or by an independent trust . . .