Archive · 8 Oct 2026
Tamil Nadu Minister Reviews Temple Projects and Department Operations
Tamil Nadu’s Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department held a meeting to review its work.
Minister S. Ramesh led the meeting in Chennai.
Officials discussed temple repairs and facilities for visitors.
They also reviewed programs involving animal care, food offerings and worship.
Ramesh said officials should act quickly if temple property is illegally occupied or its records are changed.
He called for CCTV at busy temples and regular inspections.
He also asked officials to respond to public petitions with care and to maintain honest administration.
Five people whose family members died while working for temples received appointment orders.
The minister also spoke to 80 newly recruited engineers and temple architects who are in training.
HR & CE Minister S. Ramesh chaired a departmental review meeting in Chennai on Wednesday.
Officials reviewed temple renovations, Assembly announcements, masterplan works and devotee facilities.
Ramesh ordered immediate police complaints and FIRs when temple-property encroachment or illegal ownership-record changes are detected.
The meeting assessed elephant camps, goshalas, icon preservation, spiritual tourism and food and worship schemes.
Ramesh presented compassionate appointment orders to five staff members’ legal heirs and addressed 80 newly recruited trainees.
- Who
- HR & CE Minister S. Ramesh and department officials.
- What
- A high-level review of departmental initiatives, temple projects and administration.
- When
- Wednesday; the article does not give a date.
- Where
- The HR & CE commissionerate in Nungambakkam, Chennai.
- Why
- To assess ongoing initiatives and administrative performance, including temple renovations and devotee infrastructure.
- Department
- Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR & CE)
- Meeting chair
- Minister S. Ramesh
- Meeting location
- HR & CE commissionerate, Nungambakkam, Chennai
- Renovation programs reviewed
- Work at 1,000-year-old heritage temples, rural places of worship and shrines in Adi Dravidar and tribal habitations
- Temple property directions
- Immediate police complaints and FIR registrations when encroachment or illegal changes to ownership records are detected
- Compassionate appointments
- Appointment orders presented to five legal heirs of temple staff who died in service
- New recruits in training
- 80 assistant engineers and assistant sthapathis recruited by TNPSC