Constitution of India · Part XII: Finance, Property, Contracts and Suits · Miscellaneous Financial Provisions
Article 290A: Annual payment to certain Devaswom Funds
In plain words
Each year, forty-six lakhs and fifty thousand rupees are paid from the Consolidated Fund of Keralam to the Travancore Devaswom Fund, and thirteen lakhs and fifty thousand rupees from the Consolidated Fund of Tamil Nadu to its Devaswom Fund, for maintaining Hindu temples and shrines in the territories transferred to Tamil Nadu from Travancore-Cochin.
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Official text
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 [Keralam] 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.]
Source: India Code (Legislative Department), the official text of the Constitution of India. As amended up to the Constitution (One Hundred and Sixth Amendment) Act, 2023. Text as on 10 September 2026. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.