Finance, Property, Contracts
₹46.5 lakh is charged annually on Kerala's Consolidated Fund, payable to the Travancore Devaswom Fund; ₹13.5 lakh is charged annually on Tamil Nadu's Consolidated Fund, payable to the Devaswom Fund maintaining Hindu temples/shrines in territory transferred from Travancore-Cochin in 1956.
This is a specific, fixed annual payment obligation for Kerala and Tamil Nadu to fund the upkeep of certain historic Hindu temples and shrines, tracing back to commitments made when the former princely state of Travancore-Cochin was reorganised into modern state boundaries in 1956.
This is a narrow, region-specific historical financial commitment rather than a generally-applicable constitutional principle - reflecting the particular circumstances of Kerala and Tamil Nadu's formation from earlier princely-state territory.