{"id":22750,"date":"2016-10-21T11:19:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T05:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=22747&amp;preview_id=22747"},"modified":"2016-10-21T11:19:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T05:49:03","slug":"lord-venkateswara-temple-to-exchange-35-tonne-of-foreign-coins-for-indian-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=22750","title":{"rendered":"Lord Venkateswara temple to exchange 35 tonne of foreign coins for Indian currency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>TIRUPATI: Over 35,000 kg of coins of various countries, donated by devotees to the Lord Venkateswara temple at nearby Tirumala over a period of time, will be exchanged with banks for Indian currency soon, a top official of the shrine said today.The coins were deposited in the &#8216;hundi&#8217; of the hill temple by devotees from across the world, D Sambasiva Rao, executive officer of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), which manages the shrine, told PTI here.<\/p>\n<p>Rao said he had recently ordered the TTD finance department to start segregating the coins based on the denominations and countries.<\/p>\n<p>TTD additional financial adviser and chief accounts officer O Balaji said the temple administration has written to the RBI about the foreign coins.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Based on the advice of the RBI, we have started holding talks with several nationalised banks, including State Bank of India, on the matter,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>ICICI Bank has shown interest and has come forward to take the coins, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will go ahead with the process meticulously only after observing the modalities, including the logistics responsibility and satisfactory exchange for the heap of coins,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The major share of the foreign coins were from Malaysia, Singapore and the US, he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIRUPATI: Over 35,000 kg of coins of various countries, donated by devotees to the Lord Venkateswara temple at nearby Tirumala over a period of time, will be exchanged with banks for Indian currency soon, a top official of the shrine said today.The coins were deposited in the &#8216;hundi&#8217; of the hill temple by devotees from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1184],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}