A Division Bench adjudicating the writ petition, which sought for direction to the temple authorities to take steps to revive Danadhyakshya Seva, ordered in this regard.
The state government has already taken initiative to renovate and beautify the Mahesh Jagannath temple with a main purpose to preserve the ancient heritage and tradition and develop it into a major tourist spot.
The state chief minister Mamata Banerjee has taken a special initiative towards upgrading the Mahesh Jagannath temple into a tourism spot.
At a time when the construction of the proposed Jagannath temple in Digha is almost complete and which could be opened this year, Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly
Minister of State for Home Department Harsh Sanghvi and Minister of State for Industries Department Jagdish Vishwakarma also participated in this ceremony.
To that can be added the current fear of what they call “community transmission”. It isn’t only the three towns that were recently under curfew ~ Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Bhadrak ~ that have reported fresh cases.
It isn’t a home of the gods, and this primarily explains why it has historically been free from the activities of sevayats and pandas.
The team visited Konark on Friday and observed that there is no structural damage to the monument.
Researcher Anil Dhir and AB Tripathy, Convener of INTACH Odisha, said on Tuesday that the RTI reply by the ASI on Kohinoor is highly irresponsible and a distortion of historical facts.
It is deeply to be regretted that Puri’s Jagannath Temple should be reduced to an object of fury on the…
