Designation of place of public worship secures the temple's formal recognition under the income tax provision for declared places. Designation of Shri Kasi Viswanatha Swami Temple, St. Thomas Mount, Madras, as a place of public worship of renown throughout the State of Tamil Nadu by Central Government notification, invoking the statutory power to recognise religious institutions for the purposes of the income tax provision and conferring the formal status required by that provision.