Religious and charitable endowment act

You might have come across the trend wherein you see VHP , a religious organization vouching for freeing temples from government control. The bone of contention is the religious and charitable endowment act which empowers the government to look into the financial accounts of the temples and keep a record of its donors and donor money usage pattern by the temple administration.

Another interesting fact is that most of the de-facto Hindu saving organizations like RSS, Art of living, Isha foundation identify themselves as non-religious organizations established to forward spiritual experience of its donors. The very reason for these organization to register themselves as non-religious organization is to subvert the religious and charitable endowment act from being enforced upon them and again to prevent financial transparency guaranteed by the act. 

The above are only a sample and these type of organizations are a plenty when you look in the Hindi heartland, each having their own satellite channels and millions of donors. It consists of good part of spiritual economy but without transparency.

In my opinion, instead of repealing the religious and charitable endowment act, the act itself gains more proportion wherein so called organizations (apart from the temples) which identify themselves as guardians of religion should be brought under the ambit of the act to streamline the donors and their source of funding to such organizations.