The Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) at its meeting on Thursday asked the former SJTA chief administrator to submit the “Brahma parivartan fiasco” report within a month.
In the wake of gross irregularity in the ritual held in 2015, the State Government had appointed chief administrator Suresh Chandra Mahapatra to conduct an inquiry and submit a report on the matter. Mahapatra had taken a number of affidavits and recorded statements of the several Daitas involved in the ritual, besides the Brahmins who were engaged in the performing the yajna for consecration of new bodies and the carpenters who shaped the images of the deities on Neem trunks considered as (Darus).
He too suspended a number of Daita servitors then from rendering religious service. The statements were reportedly analysed and Mahapatra assured the Gajapati King and the temple body to submit his report as early as possible.
Mysteriously he even after elapse of almost three years did not submit his report and got transferred.
The SJTA approved the revised time schedule of the deities to facilitate the repairs to the Jagamohan and construction of Bhandar and Changada rooms which were earlier demolished to carry out the repairs to Jagamohan.
This apart the temple body too resolved to expedite the servitor beneficiary programmes. The school for the children of the servitors would be constructed at the temple land in Samang area soon.
The Purusottam Mahatmya chapter in the Skanda Puran wherein the religious history of lord Jagannath is described would be translated from Sanskrit to a number of Indian languages, besides into English.
The temple body approved the plan for repairs and beautification of interior of the Jagamohan at par with the temple architecture. A sum of Rs 55 crore has been allocated to develop the Jagannath Ballav, the pleasure garden of the lord Jagannath.
The temple body assessed the irregularity during the commencing day of the Rath Yatra which delayed the pulling of three chariots as a result of which none of the chariots could reach their destination and pulling was to be conducted the next day. This apart, the cctv scanning reports over touching of unauthorised persons were presented in the meeting it is learnt.
Gajapati Dibyasingh Deb presided over the meeting while chief administrator PK Jena and officials of ASI were present, besides the members of the SJTA.
The second session of the meeting was in progress when the report was being filed.