India's central bank, The Reserve Bank of India.kicked up a storm after it asked select rich temples of India to declare the value of their gold holdings.
Temple boards, Which manage temples in India, rejected the RBI' s
request to furnish gold stock details While Hindu religious outfits threatened to launch a nation -wide protest on behalf of the Temples.
The RBI is understood to have stepped back.
"We [the Hindu parliament] had threatened to stage nation-wide
Protests on behalf of the Temple against RBI 's stand A The Temples
are under no obligation to reveal any details to any government body
INDIA 'S FORT KNOX
The US Bullion Depository Fort knox's website says it has 147 million ounces ( 4603 Tonnes) of gold holdings currently. Interestingly, according to the World Gold Council estimates, Temples in India have about 2000 tonnes of gold (84bn) and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI, June 2013 statistics) reported holdings of 557.7 tonnes of gold.
Statistics state that Indian Temples
Possess the equivalent of half of what Fort knox holds.
In 2011 , gold worth $26bn was discovered in subterranean vaults at the centuries- old sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple, in the southern state of kerala.
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