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PART XII FINANCE, PROPERTY, CONTRACTS AND SUITS · CHAPTER I.— FINANCE · Miscellaneous Financial Provisions

Article 290A: Annual payment to certain Devaswom Funds

The Constitution of India

The Kerala (Alteration of Name) Act, 2026 (18 of 2026), made under articles 3 and 4, substitutes "Keralam" for "Kerala" in this article from 25 August 2026 (notification S.O. 4712(E)). The text below is the Legislative Department edition as on 11 November 2025 and does not show that change. Source: India Code, https://indiacode.gov.in/handle/123456789/619586.

1[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 2[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.]

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Ins. by the Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act, 1956, s. 19 (w.e.f. 1-11-1956).
  2. 2.Subs. by the Madras State (Alteration of Name) Act, 1968 (53 of 1968), s. 4, for "Madras" (w.e.f. 14-1-1969).

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