shimla with a view to promote and preserve the rich heritage of religious institutions of himachal pradesh the state government has decided to provide grantinaid for worship prayers and maintenance of religious institutions through creating fund grant will be provided in two forms annually or one time grant for creation of assets the annual grant will be provided for regular maintenance of religious institutions along with daily prayersworship etc every year a fixed amount will be provided in the form of grant the state government has authorized director of language art and culture department to invest the amount of revolving fund with the highest interest paying nationalized or cooperative banks in fixed deposit accounts the interest will be utilized for the implementation of this plan officials said this way religious institutions will be provided with one time grantinaid under the scheme out of total interest received the fixed deposit account and saving bank account will be operated by the directorin the past many religious institutions had their own land and income generated out of it was used to maintain the temple and for daily prayers and worship etc but after the implementation of various land reforms many religious institutions lost their lands resulting into paucity of income this resulted in hampering of maintenance as well as regular worship in the temple taking this fact in to consideration the state government has created the revolving fund scheme to regularise the daily prayers worship and to ensure proper maintenance of religious institutions besides helping them to increase their incomeofficials said that to increase income of the religious institutions one time grant will be provided for creation of assets this will help the religious institutions to become selfsufficient and the step will go a long way in building up infrastructural facilities like sarai inn buildings shops parking toilets etc on barren land owned by these institutions moreover these institutions have been empowered to carry out any such work that could provide regular income to themhowever the government has made it clear that only those religious institutions have would be eligible for availing grant whose lands are vested in the tenants or government under various land reforms acts the temples which are included in himachal pradesh hindu public religious institutions and charitable endowment act and hp ancient and historical monuments and archaeological sites and remains act are not eligible for grants as they are centrally protectedsimilarly religious institutions with individual or personal ownership are also not eligible for grants the land acquired by the government and for which compensation has already been awarded to the religious institutions will not be counted for calculation under this schemefor availing the benefit of grant the head of eligible religious institution will have to submit desired documents along with proposal on prescribed forms to the concerned district language officer