Lord Jagannath's Rath Yatra was taken out with great fanfare on Tuesday in Bokaro Steel City. With proper worship, the idols were brought out of the temple premises and placed on the chariot. The work of cleaning the chariot referred as “Chhera-Panhara” was done by Birendra Kumar Tiwari, executive director in-charge of BSL. On this occasion, Executive Director (Projects) Chitta Ranjan Mohapatra, Executive Director (Materials Management) A. Srivastava, Executive Director (SRU) P.K. Rath, Executive Director (Personnel & Administration) Rajan Prasad, C.E.O. (B.P.S.C.L.) Aninda Das along with members of Bokaro Mahila Samiti and other dignitaries and devotees were present.
The Rath Yatra started from the Jagannath Temple complex located at Sector-4 with the combined efforts of the residents of the city. All the way the township people and the devotees continued to pull chariots by giving their contribution one by one. Rath Yatra reached Ram Mandir from Jagannath Temple via Bokaro General Hospital, Gandhi Chowk City Center, Patharkatta Chowk and Ram Mandir Chowk. Members of the voluntary organization Mahila Samiti, Bokaro distributed water and syrup on the way, in which other institutions of the city also contributed.