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Article 290A

Part XII — Finance, Property, Contracts and Suits · Constitution of India

Article 290A

Annual payment to certain Devaswom Funds. A sum of forty-six lakhs and fifty thousand rupees shall be charged on, and paid out of, the Consolidated Fund of the State of Kerala every year to the Travancore Devaswom Fund; and a sum of thirteen lakhs and fifty thousand rupees shall be charged on, and paid out of, the Consolidated Fund of the State of Tamil Nadu every year to the Devaswom Fund established in that State for the maintenance of Hindu temples and shrines in the territories transferred to that State on the 1st day of November, 1956, from the State of Travancore-Cochin.

In plain wordsKerala must pay 46.5 lakh rupees and Tamil Nadu 13.5 lakh rupees from their state funds every year to the Devaswom Funds that maintain Hindu temples in the former Travancore-Cochin areas. This honours a commitment made when states were reorganised in 1956.
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