Bill to kind belief for Mathura’s Banke Bihari temple launched in Uttar Pradesh Assembly

Three payments, together with the Shri Banke Bihari Temple Trust Bill, 2025, have been launched within the Uttar Pradesh Assembly on the third day of the monsoon session on Wednesday (August 13, 2025).

The Shri Banke Bihari Temple Trust Bill offers for the formation of a board of government-appointed trustees, together with 11 nominated and 7 ex-officio members.

The nominated members will embrace three eminent individuals associated to Vaishnav traditions, sects or peeths, three eminent individuals associated to different traditions, sects and peeths of Sanatan Dharma, which can embrace seers, gurus, students, mahants, acharyas and so on. Besides, three individuals belonging to any department or sect of Sanatan Dharma, who may very well be from any discipline, reminiscent of educationists, students, entrepreneurs, social employees and so on. Two members can be nominated from the Sevayat Goswami custom within the temple, who’re descendants of Swami Shri Haridas Ji.

There is a provision within the invoice for ex-officio members, together with the Mathura district Justice of the Peace and senior superintendent of police, town commissioner, the chief govt officer of the Uttar Pradesh Braj Tirtha Vikas Parishad, an officer from the charitable division of the state authorities, the chief govt officer of the Shri Banke Bihari Ji Temple Trust and some other member appointed by the federal government.

Highlighting the targets and causes of the proposed invoice on behalf of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna stated the Banke Bihari temple in Vrindavan city of Mathura district is an historic and world-famous shrine. Every 12 months, numerous devotees and vacationers go to the temple, which is unfold over round 870 sq. metres, together with a scenic courtyard that covers about 365 sq. metres.

The House was knowledgeable that devotees and guests face nice inconvenience because of the very slender path main as much as the temple. On August 20, 2022, two devotees died on account of an extreme crowd within the temple, and there’s an pressing want for environment friendly crowd administration, the Assembly was instructed.

Thus, it has been determined {that a} belief referred to as “Shri Banke Bihari Ji Mandir Nyas” can be constituted for the all-round improvement of the temple and to supervise pilgrimage, spiritual, cultural, religious, and establishment-related points.

It was clarified that because the state legislature was not in session and rapid legislative motion was required for this work, the Uttar Pradesh Shri Banke Bihari Ji Mandir Nyas, 2025 (U.P. Ordinance No. 3, 2025) was issued by the governor on May 26. This invoice has been launched to switch the ordinance.

Apart from this, the Uttar Pradesh Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (Amendment) Bill, 2025 and Uttar Pradesh State Public Service Commission (Regulation of Procedure) (Amendment) Bill, 2025 have been additionally launched within the House.