Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Appropriation of endowments.—(1) 1[The Joint Commissioner or the Deputy Commissioner, as the case may be], may, on being satisfied that the purpose of a religious institution has from the beginning been, or has subsequently become, impossible of realisation, by order, direct that the endowments of the institution be appropriated to all or any of the following purposes, namely:— (a) the grant of aid to any other religious institution which is poor or in needy circumstances ; (b) the grant of aid to any religious purpose connected with the Hindu religion ; (c) the propagation of the religious tenets of the institution ; (d) the recitation of Divya Prabhandam and Thevaram and the like ; (e) the establishment and maintenance of schools for the training of archakas, adyapakas, vedaparayanikas and othuvars and for the study of Divya Prabandhams, Thevarams and the like, including the study of Indian languages for that purposes ; (f) the establishment and maintenance of a University or college or other institution in which the main features shall be the provision for the study of Hindu religion, philosophy or sastras or for imparting instructions in Hindu temple architecture ; (g) the establishment and maintenance of educational institution where instruction in the Hindu religion is also provided ; (h) promotion of fine arts and architecture; (i) the establishment and maintenance of orphanages for Hindu children ; (j) the establishment and maintenance of asylums for persons suffering from leprosy ; ______________________________________________________________________________