The Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) on Saturday announced the names for the posts of Biswabasu and Vidyapati for the Banajaga Yatra team for the 2015 Nabakalebar of the Lords, which would set off from Puri on March 29, 2015.
The Odisha government will install giant LED screens at more than 20 locations in Puri for live telecast of this year’s Nabakalebara festival. The move is aimed at dispersing crowds from the vicinity of Jagannath Temple and Grand Road.
The Tourism Ministry in coordination with the Petroleum Ministry will observe the ‘Nabakalebar Rath Yatra’ in Odisha as an international tourism event this year and take several measures for its global branding and promotion.
The state government has decided to offer free transport service to pilgrims from the newly constructed bus terminus at Malatipatpur to Puri during the Nabakalebara festival scheduled in July. The government has made a budgetary provision of Rs 40 lakh for the free transport service.
Puri Police has launched a Facebook page for the benefit of the pilgrims and tourists who will visit the Pilgrim Town during Nabakalebara next year.
The managing committee of the Shree Jagannath temple in Odisha’s pilgrim town of Puri, decided to award scholarships to the children of sevayats (servitors) of the temple.
Odisha Government has announced the formation of committee for Nabakalebar. Puri MLA Maheswar Mohanty to head the panel . RDC will be vice-chairman, Puri collector member secretary of Nabakalebar supervising committee .