Kottayam: Audit report says there is a serious failure in keeping the land of temples under the Travancore Devaswom Board. Even the land in Thiruvananthapuram city does not belong to the board as per the document. The Estates Division, which was set up to protect land, failed to prepare a land register. Serious irregularities were found in the 2020-21 audit of the Basic Land Registry in various group offices.
The board’s analysis had earlier confirmed that 500 acres of the board’s own 2700 acres had been lost. Prayar Gopalakrishnan initiated the mission to find and recover the land records during his presidency but did not proceed.
Audit information below
* In Thiruvananthapuram Otsi Hanuman Temple, land records according to reserve are not recorded in the record book. On checking the Devaswom Bhoora Register and the Basic Tax Register of Vanchiyur Village, 21.67 cents due to Devaswom is missing. 2.42 cents less in Palayam Vinayaka Temple. These are places where land is expensive
* Kottarakkara Devaswat lost land through encroachment. There are no records of it. The information of the cases has not been kept
* Due to non-correction of Haripad land records, it became difficult to get compensation when land was taken for national highway development. The land register should be corrected in Thuravoor, Saryankulam, Aryankav, Aranmula and Chengannur.
* In Sharkara Devaswat there is a difference of 115 cents in land register. Different quantities in the same register
* Land register is not properly maintained in Valakkad Devaswat. All the temples have 64.30 acres. There is no record of how much land there is in Kavalayur Devaswat
* Details of newly purchased land in Thrikadavur Devaswat should be added. All land information under Kotankulangara is not included
* Lakshminada Devaswom Vaka 41.45 St. Outbound on village line
* The land purchased in the Kulasekharanallur temple remains unutilized
* In the Pullamala sub-group many Devaswom lands have been recorded as outlying
* In Arukalikal Devaswat, 31 cents became government land on the village line. Quantitative discrepancy with Devaswom land records and revenue records. The reduction is 6.8 cents in Arukalikal, 4.52 acres in Vellarakunn Devaswat and 47.7 cents in Mayayakshikkava.
* Achankovil Devaswat has 30 acres of paddy field in Chenkota. It is leased to 34 persons. The lease register has not been corrected
* Kaviyoor Register is 77 years old. About four acres of encroached land is to be reclaimed
* Thekkumkav Devaswat had 2.48 acres of land in the old land line. This land is not in the new record.