Subhechcha Ganguly 
After worshipers, now employees and servants are prohibited from using cell phones while inside the Puri Jagannath temple. The Shree Jagannath Temple Managing Committee (SJTA) meeting, which is of utmost importance, decided to prohibit smart phones from being used within the 12th-century shrine on Thursday.The judgement states that the prohibition on mobile phones for employees, including servants and other officials, would take effect on January 1, 2023.
Senior SJTA officials have announced the establishment of two specialised counters between the Southern and Singhadwar gates where servants and other officials may leave their cell phones before entering the Jagannath temple. The important Shree Jagannath Temple Managing Committee, which was presided over by Puri Gajapati Maharaj Dibyasingha Deb, also approved various other concerns and ideas in addition to the ban on cell phones.
In order to establish the intended “Adarsh Gurukul,” a role-model school in Puri for the children of Sri Jagannath temple servants, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed with the Birla Foundation.
Shree Jagannath Bana Prakalp has already begun plants on 3600 of the 4,000 hectares, according to SJTA Chief Administrator Vir Vikram Yadav.”The society would receive about 32 acres of land for the Gurukul project. In order to access the Shree Jaganath Bana Project, the members will go to the location. To meet the demand for the necessary timber, we would ask the forest department to plant 1600 acres of forest land in the name of Lord Jagannath, added Yadav.
