Chennai: The Kapaleeswarar temple in Mylapore was on Monday awarded ISO 9001:2008 certification. Deputy chief minister M K Stalin handed over the certificate to Hindu religious and charitable endowments minister K R Periyakaruppan at the secretariat. The other two city temples — the Parthasarathy temple in Triplicane and the Dhandayudhapani temple in Vadapalani — have also got ISO certification, according to official sources. Early this year, the three temples had applied for ISO certification following an announcement by Periyakaruppan in the Assembly.
The recognition came following a series of inspections of the three temples by ISO authorities and nearly six months after the temples applied for ISO status.
9001:2008 is a world class quality management system for companies/organizations that have an objective of improving their customer satisfaction.
The International Standards Organization has defined the elements of an effective quality management system and calls it the ISO 9000 family of standards. The standards issued in 1994 were revised in December 2000, and again in November 2008.
The three city temples had included their fixed assets, accounts and strict adherence to rituals for scrutiny by the ISO. According to HR&CE officials, Meenakshi Amman temple in Madurai and Srirangam Ranganatha temple will also apply for the ISO tag shortly. “We were waiting for the city temples to get certification and now we will ask these temples to apply,” they said.
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