Women can become monks, says Tamil Nadu Minister
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P.K. Sekar Babu says that many ladies had submitted petitions looking for permission to carry out puja at temples.
Women, if educated, can be appointed in temples as monks, Minister for Puucho Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR and CE) P.K. Sekar Babu stated on Saturday.
Addressing reporters after a overview assembly of regional joint commissioners of the division, he stated that many ladies had submitted petitions looking for permission to carry out puja at temples.
“Already we have women who perform pujas in rural areas. Temples like Mel Malayanur and Mel Maruvathur have women as priests. In fact, we have women who have been appointed as Odhuvars,” he stated.
About appointing archakas (temple monks) from all communities in temples, he stated that it will be achieved quickly by Chief Minister M.K. Stalin.
“If required the 200-odd persons would be provided a refresher course by the department since it has been a long time since they underwent training,” he famous.
Temple monks too could be given a refresher course on performing archanais in Tamil. “We plan to install boards in temples with names and phone numbers of priests, who will perform the archanai in Tamil,” he stated.
The division was taking inventory of the vacancies of archakas and temple employees and the vacancies could be stuffed up quickly. B. Chandramohan Secretary, Tourism, HR and CE division; and J. Kumaraguruparan, Commissioner HR and CE, have been current.
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