In India, the BKWSU has a reputation for being "stinking rich" and, at one point, came under scrutiny from the Indian Tax Service leading to the removal or hiding of cash donation boxes. (I do not have an update on the current situation). We saw something in the India Tax Service records relating to "investments".
Can any Brahma Kumari follower supply answers to the following simple questions?
Thanks.
Can any Brahma Kumari follower supply answers to the following simple questions?
- • How much money does the BKWSU have (including the value of its properties and land)?
• How much money does it make per year (total, by country, or by center)?
• How, where and in what does it invest its savings?
• How much does it have in cash reserves?
• What proportion of its finances are accounted for legally and go through the records, and what proportion are just taken personally by various teachers and leaders or spent on an ad hoc unofficial basis, e.g. at local centers?
• What additional sums are spent by adherents on BK service?
• How much money does Madhuban, and other main centers, re-distribute to other centers ... and how it is decided?
• Who makes the financial decisions and by what system?
• Does it pay life insurance, pensions etc for its leaders?
Thanks.