Temple Accounts Digitisation: KITFRA To Place Detailed Statement Before Kerala High Court To Ensure Transparency
K. Salma Jennath
31 Jan 2026 2:00 PM IST
The Kerala State Information Technology Infrastructure Ltd. (KITFRA), which has been entrusted by the Travancore Devaswom Board to facilitate digitisation of temple account, undertook that it would place a detailed statement including the proposal and timeframe required for the exercise before the Kerala High Court.
The Division Bench of Justice Raja Vijayaraghavan V. and Justice K.V. Jayakumar was considering a Devaswom Board Audit Report (DBAR) that pointed to alleged embezzlement of ₹40 lakhs from a petrol pump run by the Board at Nilakkal, a base camp of Sabarimala pilgrims.
The Bench on Tuesday (January 28) interacted with KITFRA's Managing Director and its General Manager, and, the Deputy Director of Information Kerala Mission and KSMART Chief Architect regarding the technical and administrative aspects of the proposed project.
It was told that KITFRA official would apprise the Court of the time frame required for preparing the Technical Requirement Specification (TRS)/System Requirement Specification (SRS) for the project after it attained sufficient knowledge regarding temple administration and temple functions.
The Court at that point referred to its earlier interim order dated October 30, 2025 and reminded KITFRA regarding the nature of work it would be required to do with an intent to make the entire process more transparent. The KITRA is to prepare a Detailed Project Report, Business Requirement Document, Data Migration & Legacy Integration Plan, Project Implementation Plan, Scope of Work (SoW), etc.
“Every aspect of the matter has to be professionally and comprehensively charted out so that the work can be entrusted to a competent software firm to design a robust microservices-based digital ecosystem architecture for the temples under the administration and management of the Travancore Devaswom Board…The proposed architecture shall include role-based access controls, tamper-proof audit trails, and real-time monitoring of all temples and institutions under the Board. This integrated digital framework is intended to ensure transparency, efficiency, accountability, and improved service delivery in temple administration and public interface,” the Court observed.
Recording KITFRA's undertaking that it would place a detailed statement within two weeks, the Court posted the matter on February 11 for further consideration.
Case No: DBAR No. 2 of 2025
Case Title: Joint Director v. The Secretary and Ors.