According to the India Bad Gastein times reported on June 10, in order to count believers donate to charity, while preventing the theft, India shabalimala temple decided to forgo artificial money, use robots instead.

Shabalimala Temple is India's most prestigious, and most wealthy India temples. However, believers donate to charities are often stolen, Temple headache. In order to prevent internal modus operandi, shabalimala Temple in 2008 had imposed requirements employee responsible for counting money at work, wrapped only in a loin cloth, but nothing to wear.

Temple employees complain that, in order to prevent insider theft, shabalimala nude to them also check the temple, known as the "inhuman treatment". Later, under the intervention of human rights groups, shabalimala Temple was forced to answer counted money at work can put on underwear, and installed cameras in the workplace.

Nowadays, the shabalimala temple decided to abandon the manual counting, use robots instead, completely solve the problem. Temple administration Jayakumar said: "we are discussing a company in Bangalore, and automatic counting robots, already has been made. We have put forward specific requirements details, will conduct a test run soon. ”

Every year from November to January 1 was shabalimala under the Temple of high season, every time, and money is continuous. Temple needs to recruit 400 people daily in 3 shifts, 24 hours counting the money. Temple said despite the initial installation fee of up to 1 to 150 million rupees (about 9.7 million to 14.55 million yuan), but Temple believes that robot is easy to operate and efficient, is cost-effective in the long run.

Temple said that after installing the robot, originally counted the money employees free to take another job. But the local Union is strongly against the desecration of money dedicated to the gods, they say, workers deserve protection, can't just be replaced by machines.

In 2014, about 35 million people visited the shabalimala Temple. On January 14, 2011, shabalimala Temple had major Stampede, killing 106 people dead, more than 100 people were injured.