The expert committee set up by the Supreme Court to evaluate the treasures hid in the vaults of the famed Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple here will have its first meeting Monday to evolve an action plan on how to go about the sensitive task.
The committee, headed by senior bureaucrat and Director General of National Museum C V Ananda Bose, has as its members one representative each from RBI, Archaeological Survey of India, state government and the temple executive officer and a nominee of the Travancore royal family.
Today's meet would primarily chalk out the strategy to go about the task and evolve a work plan to proceed with the delicate job, official sources told reporters.
The meeting would also review work already been done by the earlier seven-member committee which had opened four of the six inner chambers and inventoried the precious articles of great intrinsic and heritage value locked up in the inner chambers of the ancient shrine, sources said.
The first meeting would be more of a fact-finding one and would review what had already been done so that duplication could be avoided, sources said.
Earlier, the seven-member committee, which included two former judges of the Kerala High Court, had opened four of the six vaults, which were found to contain a glittering pile of priceless treasures like gold jewels, stone-studded crowns, rare idols, rubies, diamonds, piles of gold coins and stacks of gold and silver ware.
A division bench of the Supreme Court comprising justices R V Raveendran and A K Patnaik had on July 21 ordered the formation of the panel while considering the temple case.
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