How a high-level panel laid the blueprint for inclusive Archaka appointments to Tamil Nadu’s HR&CE temples

In 2006, the M. Karunanidhi government issued an order allowing any Hindu, regardless of caste, to become an Archaka in temples administered by the HR&CE department, provided they had the required training. To implement this order, it constituted a seven-member high-level committee on June 10, 2006, under the chairmanship of Justice (Retired) A.K. Rajan