The New Indian Express: Vijayawada:
Tuesday, March 26, 2013.
Officials of
Kanakadurga temple have paid no heed to the direction of state information
commissioner P Vijaya Babu to display boards containing details of movable and
immovable properties of Sri Durga
Malleswara Swamyvarla Devasthanam under the Right to Information Act.
The
information commissioner, who visited the temple in August last year, directed
the authorities in this regard. The temple authorities were asked to display
the value of 18 categories (lands, buildings and others) on the premises.
Following
this, the then temple executive officer M Raghunath said they did not set up
the boards due to a court stay as a temple in the state moved the court stating
it did not come under the purview of the RTI Act.
“However,
since there was no stay in this regard concerning Durga temple, we would set up
eight boards on the hill shrine disclosing the total worth of all our assets,
including lands, gold and silver ornaments and cash,” he said at that time.
But, only one
board has been set up till date.
That too does
not display all the details of the assets and it has been recently put in a
room at the temple, according to sources.
However, the
temple authorities have set up the boards displaying the names and other
details of the first appellate authority, public information officer (PIO) and
assistant public information officer (APIO).
When
contacted, PRO Achyutha Ramaiah claimed
that they set up four such boards displaying the assets of the temple.
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