By For the primary time in its history, a scheduled tribe person can shortly become a priest in a very shrine, managed by the apex temple body Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB), in Kerala.
In a path-breaking move, the TDB, that manages over one,200 shrines across the southern state, has set to appoint nineteen individuals, as well as eighteen happiness to scheduled caste and one from scheduled tribe, as clergymen in its shrines on a part-time basis.
The TDB is associate autonomous temple body that manages several shrines as well as the Sabarimala Lord Ayyappa Temple.
“This is for the primary time that the temple body is appointing a scheduled tribe person as a priest in shrines underneath TDB,” state Devaswom Minister Kadakampally Surendran same in a very Facebook post.
People from ‘lower’ caste area unit appointed within the part-time shanti (priest) posts through special accomplishment, he said.
So far, 310 individuals are chosen for the post of part-time clergymen within the Travancore Devaswom Board from the rank list, printed in 2017, he said.
As there have been not enough eligible candidates from the scheduled caste and scheduled Tribe communities for the examination at that point, a separate rank list was ready as per a special notification for them, that was printed on day, he said.
Though there have been four vacancies notified for the ST community, only 1 application was received, the minister same.
After the Left government came to power, the accomplishment board was restructured and a complete of 815 individuals had been chosen for varied posts in Travancore, poultry and Malabar Devaswom Boards, the minister intercalary.
A total of 133 non-Brahmin clergymen are appointed in varied temples within the southern state within the last four and [*fr1] year tenure of the govt., official sources intercalary.For the primary time in its history, a scheduled tribe person can shortly become a priest in a very shrine, managed by the apex temple body Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB), in Kerala.
In a path-breaking move, the TDB, that manages over one,200 shrines across the southern state, has set to appoint nineteen individuals, as well as eighteen happiness to scheduled caste and one from scheduled tribe, as clergymen in its shrines on a part-time basis.
The TDB is associate autonomous temple body that manages several shrines as well as the Sabarimala Lord Ayyappa Temple.
“This is for the primary time that the temple body is appointing a scheduled tribe person as a priest in shrines underneath TDB,” state Devaswom Minister Kadakampally Surendran same in a very Facebook post.
People from ‘lower’ caste area unit appointed within the part-time shanti (priest) posts through special accomplishment, he said.
So far, 310 individuals are chosen for the post of part-time clergymen within the Travancore Devaswom Board from the rank list, printed in 2017, he said.
As there have been not enough eligible candidates from the scheduled caste and scheduled Tribe communities for the examination at that point, a separate rank list was ready as per a special notification for them, that was printed on day, he said.
Though there have been four vacancies notified for the ST community, only 1 application was received, the minister same.
After the Left government came to power, the accomplishment board was restructured and a complete of 815 individuals had been chosen for varied posts in Travancore, poultry and Malabar Devaswom Boards, the minister intercalary.
A total of 133 non-Brahmin clergymen are appointed in varied temples within the southern state within the last four and [*fr1] year tenure of the govt., official sources intercalary.
