Honorarium to priests in Shani Shingnapur Devasthan applied the proposal in the meeting of trustee board
Samira Vishwas September 06, 2025 10:24 PM

Sonai: The trustee board of the temple has decided to appoint priests who have been serving for a long time in Shani Shingnapur on the basis of salary after consulting the application. It has been decided to appoint priests on the basis of salary with terms and conditions in the meeting of the trustee board of the temple. It has been decided to give 31 thousand and 21 thousand rupees monthly salary to priests. The priests will serve in two shifts from 4 am to 10.30 pm. Priests will not accept cash or online payment from devotees.

Despite all this, if the devotees are giving Dakshina to the priests, then the priests should ask the devotees to put it in the donation vessel instead of accepting it. If the devotees are donating the priests as goods, then the priests should ask the devotees to deposit that goods in the temple’s donation department and get his receipt as goods.

Ban on using mobile

The temple will take a receipt of Rs 11,000 from the devotees for Havan-Puja, in which the priest Dakshina and Temple The fee is included. Out of this, 5,000 rupees will be given separately to the priests by the temple. The priests will be banned from carrying and using mobile phones while on duty.

No reputation fee on donations of Rs 1,000

No reputation fee will be charged in the temple on the next Rs 1,000 donation. Villagers of the area and Panchakroshi Devotees The reputation fee will not be charged. But all other devotees will have to take a receipt of Rs 100 from the temple for prestige. Accordingly, this decision has been taken by the temple and this decision will be applicable from Saturday (6th).

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