{"id":65881,"date":"2026-05-19T06:07:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/no-plan-to-monetise-gold-held-by-temples-govt\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T06:07:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:07:18","slug":"no-plan-to-monetise-gold-held-by-temples-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/no-plan-to-monetise-gold-held-by-temples-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"No Plan To Monetise Gold Held By Temples: Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Debunking all rumours and speculations, the government on Tuesday said it is not planning to introduce a monetisation scheme for gold held by temple trusts, or any religious institution across the country.<\/div>\n<div>Such rumours are completely false, misleading and without any basis, the finance ministry said in a clarification.<\/div>\n<div>It also clarified that claims suggesting gold plates on temple towers, doors, or other temple structures will be considered as \u2018Strategic Gold Reserves of India\u2019 are false, misleading, and entirely baseless.<\/div>\n<div>The ministry urged citizens not to believe or circulate such rumours.<\/div>\n<div>Spreading unverified information creates unnecessary confusion and may mislead the public, it said.<\/div>\n<div>The government urges all citizens to rely only on official communications issued through authorised channels, it said.<\/div>\n<div>Any information regarding policy decisions or government schemes will be shared through official press releases, government websites, and verified public communication platforms, it added. (Agencies)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debunking all rumours and speculations, the government on Tuesday said it is not planning to introduce a monetisation scheme for gold held by temple trusts, or any religious institution across the country. Such rumours are completely false, misleading and without any basis, the finance ministry said in a clarification. It also clarified that claims suggesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-65881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}