{"id":2322,"date":"2020-04-10T17:56:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T12:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-global-press.pantheonsite.io\/?p=2322"},"modified":"2020-04-10T17:56:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T12:26:57","slug":"offerings-at-golden-temple-saw-a-big-fall-from-rs-23-lakh-to-rs-15000-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=2322","title":{"rendered":"Offerings at Golden Temple saw a big fall from Rs 23 lakh to Rs 15,000 a day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-background has-very-light-gray-background-color\"> From an average collection of offerings of Rs 23 lakh a day (Rs 85 crore for the year, including those received online) in 2019-20, its collection for the two weeks since the curfew was imposed has dipped to between Rs 10,000 and Rs 15,000 a day, said an SGPC official, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/cities\/temporal-needs-offerings-at-golden-temple-dip-from-rs-23-lakh-to-rs-15-000-a-day\/story-4ZRwDbW6UuSzkL292eo7rK.html\">Hindustan Times <\/a>has reported.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong>Amritsar<\/strong>:  A massive dip in offerings from devotees at the Golden Temple will cause a tough situation for the  Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) to manage the temple finances amid the curfew enforced to curb the spread of deadly COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>From an average collection of offerings of Rs 23 lakh a day (Rs 85 crore for the year, including those received online) in 2019-20, its collection for the two weeks since the curfew was imposed has dipped to between Rs 10,000 and Rs 15,000 a day, said an SGPC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/cities\/temporal-needs-offerings-at-golden-temple-dip-from-rs-23-lakh-to-rs-15-000-a-day\/story-4ZRwDbW6UuSzkL292eo7rK.html\">official<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Besides management of gurdwaras, which entails offering langar, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/cities\/temporal-needs-offerings-at-golden-temple-dip-from-rs-23-lakh-to-rs-15-000-a-day\/story-4ZRwDbW6UuSzkL292eo7rK.html\">SGPC<\/a> also runs educational and medical institutes for social service. It has also been offering langar to the needy across north India amid the lockdown. The situation, in terms of offerings, is similar in all gurdwaras, with a prolonged lockdown likely to further dent its finances.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-very-light-gray-background-color\">Image Source: YouTube<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an average collection of offerings of Rs 23 lakh a day (Rs 85 crore for the year, including those received online) in 2019-20, its collection for the two weeks since the curfew was imposed has dipped to between Rs 10,000 and Rs 15,000 a day, said an SGPC official, Hindustan Times has reported. Amritsar: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":2323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[697,20,561,317,22,698],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322"}],"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\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}