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... [Added by the 7th Amendment, 1956]
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This Article is a genuinely unusual example of the Constitution specifying an exact rupee figure for a very particular regional purpose — reflecting how carefully certain historically significant local arrangements (here, temple endowment funding from a former princely state) were specifically preserved during India's territorial integration process.
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Why does the Constitution name an exact rupee amount rather than a general formula?
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