On Friday, the State Cabinet forwarded to Governor P. Sathasivam an ordinance to give effect to its decision. The Travancore Devaswom Board is an autonomous body constituted under the Travancore Cochin Hindu Religious Institutions (TCHRI) Act of 1950 for administrating nearly 1,250 temples in the former princely State of Travancore. Present tenureAt present, the tenure of the board president and members is three years. However, Devaswom Minister Kadakampally Surendran said this was not the first time that the State government had curtailed the tenure of the Devaswom board. If the covenant was applicable to all such decisions, the matter should have come up in 2007 and 2014 as well.

Source: The Hindu November 11, 2017 18:11 UTC