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The Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) department has retrieved land worth ₹3 crores belonging to the Tiruporur Kandasamy Temple from encroachers.
The Tiruporur Kandasamy Temple temple is administered by the HR&CE department and owns property worth over ₹1000 crores in various parts of the state including Chennai and Kancheepuram.
The lands belonging to this temple continues to come under attack from land sharks who from time to time encroach these lands or sell them off using fake pattas.
The temple has a chatram (inn) and 20 cents of empty land on Survey No. 270/16 located in the South Mada street near the temple. The temple administration had arranged money for annadanam (food donation) and other rituals through the money raised from these properties. The Executive Officer was appointed as the in-charge to carry out these works.
Howeverr, it was revealed that all these properties were encroached. Thereafter, the Executive Office and other temple staff engaged in the identification of encroachments and retrieve the lands.
The authorities have now fenced the property with a barbed wire fence and placed a sign saying ‘This plot belongs to Tiruporur Kandasamy Temple’. The property recovered is worth around ₹3 crores, officials of the Temple Endowments Board said. Activists are demanding that a thorough inspection should be done to ensure safety and security not only for the recovery of the property but also to prevent them from being encroached again.
(With inputs from Kathir News and The Hindu Tamil)