Thiruvananthapuram: Even when the Multasyar Dam remains a major problem between Kerala and Tamil Nadu, another attractive property for the two countries has now reached the consideration of the Supreme Court.
Mangala Temple Supervisor Devi Kannagi located in the forest area near Kumily in Idukki, which falls on the border between the two countries, has approached the peak court praying that the temple, which is currently under the control of the Archaeological Department of Kerala, which is currently below Full control is submitted to the Trichy Circle of the Indian Archaeological Survey (ASI).
The applicant has approached SC by quoting that Kerala ignored the monument.
After trust, which operates from Cumbam in Tamil Nadu, moved to court, the Advocate General Office General wrote to the State Government on November 10 to prepare detailed statements to submit in court, in response to the success made in the search for the Petition of the Take-up.
This monument has the main historical relevance because the temple believed to be built in the second century AD has a god of Kannagi which is a hero of a woman from the Tamil’s epic silappathikaram, written by a great poet of Adigal Ilang.
The applicant, President of Trust, has said that the temple site falls in forest areas that have not been surveyed for the past 63 years, and there are territorial disputes over the site.
Because of this, Kerala, which has stated the site as a state monument in August 1983, has ignored the current temple in dilapidated conditions.
Previously, the trust had transferred the Kerala High Court who was looking for temple conservation, and even though the High Court ordered to do so, the country had not done anything, he said.
“The State Archaeology of Kerala has not spent one Rupee for the past 37 years in Conservation of Mangala Devi Temple and allows the temple to have natural death,” the alleged applicant.
The applicant also said that while on the one hand the Kerala government said that the temple site fell in the Periyar Tiger Reserve (PTR) area and there were limitations in conducting activities on the site, on the other hand, Sabarimala was also in the PTR and at a distance of only 15 km from the site Temple Mangala Devi, has all modern facilities, road access, shops, and housing facilities.
Senior sources of the government said that steps by trust can be suspected of being suspected of being an effort to sweep the territorial issues related to the temple site, which opposes the provisions of the state reorganization law, 1956.
Part four and five of the measures talking about leaving certain areas of leaving Former Travancore-Cochin which will be annexed to Kanyakumari and Tirunelveli District from Tamil Nadu and the remaining regional declaration (by entering Kasaragod) as the state of Kerala.
When this problem arose in the previous high court, the state has taken a clear attitude that the area is within the state boundary is not cooperated, and has done everything in the limitations of activities that can be done in the PTR.
The temple site falls inside the PTR area and large-scale pilgrimage will have a negative impact on the population of tigers and other endangered species.
This temple is open only for a day every year for the Mangala Devi Chithai Pournami festival on the days of April-May.
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