ETV Bharat's report, by Ravindra Mahale, carrying Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust (Shirdi) CEO Goraksh Gadilkar's official statement of the trust's 2025-26 financial year figures: total income of 851.97 crore rupees (up from 819.57 crore in 2023-24 and 436.95 crore in 2021-22), pilgrim donations of 660 crore rupees, fixed deposits of 3,618 crore rupees generating 256 crore rupees in interest, 4.89 crore rupees in foreign currency donations, and 39.55 crore rupees in darshan and aarti fee revenue. It also reports the year's precious metal offerings (16 kilograms of gold, 197 kilograms of silver) and the trust's total held gold and silver as of 15 June 2026 (549.44 kilograms of gold, about 151.87 crore rupees in value; 7,030.47 kilograms of silver, about 25.33 crore rupees in value).
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AuthorRavindra Mahale
PublisherETV Bharat
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://www.etvbharat.com/en/state/16-kg-gold-197-kg-silver-devotees-donated-rs-660-crore-to-shirdi-sai-sansthan-in-2025-26-enn26061801383
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Reliability Tier2
Tier 2: a named reporter's carriage of an on-the-record official statement by the trust's own CEO, at a national news outlet this atlas already cites for Indian temple-trust finance reporting (source 54524). Unlike that RTI-compelled disclosure, this is a voluntary official statement rather than a legally compelled one, and no independent audit of the underlying figures is described in the report. Sources
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Sacred Sites, 5 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 general references.
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