More intriguing facts are coming into light about the Satya Sai Central Trust which controls the God-man Sai kingdom worth more than Rs.1, 50,000 Cr according to flexible estimates.
The most shocking of the facts is that the state government doesn’t have a copy of the Trust deed of the Satya Sai Central Trust which got registered with the Deputy Endowments Commissioner in Anantapur on September 1972. On the other hand, K V Ramanachary, principal secretary, endowments, told a daily paper that it was the Centre which has been monitoring the Trust activities.
Every Trust registered with a state government must furnish its reports to the Government at least every three years. But the Sai Trust sought exemption from the filing of reports in 1980 from the state government and since then it stopped filing its returns after its request was accepted.
The Trust, enjoying 100 per cent tax exemption, has however been filing its foreign contribution report to the Centre under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act every year.
Be that as it may, one fails to understand as to how the Trust Deed copies went missing from the Endowments office in Anantapur? How come now only the government has found that it did not have anything to prove that the Trust was registered with it? Now, no one is also sure of the objectives of the Trust which is facing allegations of misuse of funds.
This also means that the Government has not been monitoring the activities of the Trust over the years giving rise to speculation that the Trust members never bothered about some one seeking explanations from them to their deeds and misdeeds.
Surprising though it may be to you but the government of AP also has come to know only in the last few days that Apart from the Sathya Sai Central Trust, there are several trusts floated by Sai Baba to carry out various philanthropic activities.
They include Shri Sathya Sai Health Trust, Karnataka, Shri Sathya Sai Trust, Karnataka, Sri Sathya Sai Books & Publication Trust, Mumbai, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Anantapur, Sri Sathya Sai Medical Trust, Anantapur, and Sri Sathya Sai Foundation for Universal Peace, Anantapur.
