Is Indian Government Planning To Expropriate Hindu Temples?

A puzzling report showed up today on the website of the Press Trust of India. The story says that the United Progressive Alliance government of India has proposed to a committee of Parliament that the government acquire all Hindu temples in the country. Supposedly the government is also planning to tax the earnings of temples and charitable institutions. The head of Vishwa Hindu Parishad , a Hindu social service and educational organization, claims that "this is a conspiracy to destroy Hindu institutions". In a number of Indian states, temples are already under government control. The head of VHP said that in those states, priests were being underpaid and governments were misappropriating temple money.