Odisha: The Government of the Puri Temple gets to the groove for fine Rath Yatra

Bhubaneswar: Administration of Shree Temple Jagannath (SJTA) in Puri on Wednesday emphasized the strict compliance with the right behavior and discipline among the servants during Rath Yatra on July 12.
“Like last year, all eyes were fixed on us when the Supreme Court had forbidden.
Yatra throughout the country except in Puri.
This festival will be telessast directly and watched by millions of viewers around the world.
If the train remains crowded by the waiter and they don’t wear a mask, It will determine the wrong precedence and ask questions about our management, “said a senior Temple official, who attended the virtual meeting chaired by Gajapati Dibyingha Deb, Chair of the Jagannath Committee Managing Temple, on Wednesday.
Administration has a reason to worry because of unpleasant behavior and incomprintent from several servants on the train as long as Rath Yatra has left a red-faced government in the past.
The source said Deb asked the Puri and SJTA district government to be sensitive to the servants about Covid’s norms.
Deb also said only a number of servants who had to be allowed to remain on the train when they were withdrawn from the Jagannath Temple to Gundicha Temple (Dewa’s birthplace) at the Grand Road.
In accordance with the Supreme Court orders last year, the previous state government announced to allow at least 500 servants to draw each of three trains.
However, the government has not clarified the right amount of the waiter, who will be on the train.
The district government will launch a 3-day Covid testing program for servitor staff and temple from Thursday in front of Rath Yatra.
As it was decided earlier, only the (Sarvitors and Shrine staff) that tested negative and fully vaccinated would be allowed to take part in RATH.
“I appealed to the servants to be tested for three days in our designated testing centers.
That, the second dose of maturity, also had to take it before RATH,” said Collector District Puri Samarth Verma.
Sources say at least 3000 servants and 1000 temple staff tend to undergo a RT-PCR test before Rath Yatra.
So far, at all 7592 people consisting of servants, family members and their temple employees have taken the first dose of Covishield and 4484 have been inoculated with the second dose.
The Temple Government sets targets to vaccinate around 8500 people (servants, family and their temple staff) before Rath Yatra.