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Firm Vigil to Guard Lord

odisha-newspaper — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:42:09 +0000

An upgraded surveillance system will soon come into act for the Lord Jagannath Temple at Puri. This sort of surveillance system will work 24 hours in a day and it will be donated by Nalco. This surveillance system will carry many cameras and these cameras will take care of the vantage points of the temple so that movements of pilgrims can be recorded with the most efficient approach. This unique system has got the ability to scan pilgrims from a specified distance and it will alert the security officials of the temple if there is something wrong. Now suspicious objects for Puri temple can be identified easily with this unique surveillance system.

At the temple an old surveillance system is already there. But due to the huge threats perception the temple administration has plead Nalco to offer this high end device. A new control room will be installed for this new surveillance system. Cameras will be installed for all the important regions of the temple except for the Sanctum Sanctorum.

Woman hanged herself inside Jagannath temple

rutambhara — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:52:27 +0000

A woman was found hanged inside Koili Baikuntha of Lord Sri Jagannath temple on Tuesday.This unfortunate incident must have been taken place in the calm hours of Monaday night, as said by the police officials on duty.

The woman is expected to be at her old age.She has hanged herself in a place in front of shrine where very few people visits.The “nabakalebar” shrines , the old shrine of the trilords are buried deep inside it and hence the place is known as ‘koilibaikuntha’, the abode of cuckoo.

This incident made the authorities to stop all the holy works for 3-4 hours to purify the place. After sprinkling of holy water and doing some prayers , the regular prayers of Lord Jagannath started.

The body has been taken for postmortems.The police officials reported to give furthur explanations after thorough searching. The old woman hasn’t been identified yet.

Politicians spoil the youth at Puri

rutambhara — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:09:57 +0000

It has been found that politicians spend huge amount of money to attract the youth just few days before their
elections by donating for renovations of clubs and community centers.A burning example can be found at puri.
According to a senior citizen here , “Noone bothers to utilize the money for the improvement of these clubs
and cnters. The money donated by the parties are entirely spent on feasts and entertainment by the yougsters
who are in charge of these community centers.”

The community centers known as Jagaghar was once a buzzword among the youths here. These centers used to train
martial art to young ones for protecting the shrines. Wrestling, body building, combating, martial arts, aerobics
- were the exercises they used to learn here.As said by another citizen of Puri, ” Due to lack of patronage, the
youngsters were demoralized and dishearted. Some of them, even got involved in antisocial activities. The unity
among them later gave way enmity and hostility.”

Initially there were Jagaghars built on seven streets namely- kalikadevi, Harchandi, Matimandap, Markandeswar,
Dolamandap, Bali, Markandeswar, Goudabadsahi, Markandeswar, kundheibanta. But with the increasing popularity
and their acceptance among the youth, their number had risen to 61.Although there were now almost 50 Jagaghars existing
at the Puri, none of them are well deployed.

It has been found that nearly sixty Thousand was received from each candidate for Jagaghar. But not even the half of it
was used for its renovation. According to the managers of Jagaghars, “the received fund was invested properly for the
reconstruction.Not even a penny is misutilized.”But the conditions of Jagaghars explains it all and speaks the truth.