More temples to be registered: Kunal

Saturday, March 17, 2007, 13:22 [IST]

Saharsa, Mar 02 (UNI) Secretary of Bihar state religious board Kishore Kunal today said that more temples with considerable donations would be registered soon.

Talking to reporters here, Mr Kunal said that there were forty thousand temples in the state but only three thousand of them had been registered so far.He expressed his concern over the growing incidents of theft of idols from from the temples and attributed it to the laxity of the concerned police stations in discharging their duties.

''District police superintendents had been requested to provide adequate security cover to the temples with idols of high antique value'' he added.

Mr Kunal said that priests would be removed from the concerned temples in the event of theft of statues.

'' A residential school would be opened with the income from Singheshwar temple in Madhepura'', he announced.

UNI

Topics: ADMINISTRATION TEMPLE REGISTRATION

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