The Priest order of the DMK Govt-Where to go??
One of the first few orders signed by the new TN Govt was to provide equal oppurtunity for all the castes in temples managed by HR &CE Dept as priests to fulfill the dreams of late Periyar. From viewpoint of unemployment it might be a good move. But whom does it affect directly?? No doubt the poor Brahmin priests of the various Hindu temples who know nothing but Vedas/pooja agamas and have spent the lifetimes as well as trained their future generations for this noble job which going by other industry standards is still poorly paid without any retirement benefits and they manage on the Prasad and the small houses/ meager piece of land allotted to them. The problem is they don't know anything else except the arachaka tradition and this ordinance seems to affect them the most as well as the 'poojaris' of some Sakthi temples.
I am sure a big hue and cry would have been raised if this order was also applicable to certain minority communities and sub sects and their places of worship, but they can never be touched and we would continue to take pride in calling ourselves a secular country. Though the Brahmin community is by any stretch of imagination always a minority both in numbers and in economic terms nobody cares or supports for them, they don't get any job reservations, still struggle for professional admissions in spite of getting 110%, even their own well off brethren don't care for them once they get into well paid white collar jobs in India or abroad(few exceptions are there) and neither do they have strong associations or representatives for their voice to be heard.
I am sure that the current generation of the arachaka youths given their native brilliance and instinct for survival would come out with something innovative to still keep them and this noble profession ticking.
RK
One of the first few orders signed by the new TN Govt was to provide equal oppurtunity for all the castes in temples managed by HR &CE Dept as priests to fulfill the dreams of late Periyar. From viewpoint of unemployment it might be a good move. But whom does it affect directly?? No doubt the poor Brahmin priests of the various Hindu temples who know nothing but Vedas/pooja agamas and have spent the lifetimes as well as trained their future generations for this noble job which going by other industry standards is still poorly paid without any retirement benefits and they manage on the Prasad and the small houses/ meager piece of land allotted to them. The problem is they don't know anything else except the arachaka tradition and this ordinance seems to affect them the most as well as the 'poojaris' of some Sakthi temples.
I am sure a big hue and cry would have been raised if this order was also applicable to certain minority communities and sub sects and their places of worship, but they can never be touched and we would continue to take pride in calling ourselves a secular country. Though the Brahmin community is by any stretch of imagination always a minority both in numbers and in economic terms nobody cares or supports for them, they don't get any job reservations, still struggle for professional admissions in spite of getting 110%, even their own well off brethren don't care for them once they get into well paid white collar jobs in India or abroad(few exceptions are there) and neither do they have strong associations or representatives for their voice to be heard.
I am sure that the current generation of the arachaka youths given their native brilliance and instinct for survival would come out with something innovative to still keep them and this noble profession ticking.
RK
posted by RK at 3:55 PM
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