As many as 17 temples and mosques constructed illegally on Government land at various places under the Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) would be demolished.
Housing and Urban Development Minister Puspendra Singhdeo revealed this in the State Assembly in response to a question of BJD MlA Ayub Khan on Friday.
“Cases have been registered against 17 temples and mosques constructed on Government land at the OSD Court of the BDA as per the OSD Act 1982. The court has, by now, issued orders to demolish 11 temples and mosques and cases relating to six other religious structures are now sub-judice,” the Minister said.
The structures which have been issued demolition orders are Nilakantheswar temple, Nayapalli, Hanuman temple, Chandrasekharpur, a mosque at Chandrasekharpur, Jagannath temple, Basuaghai, Siridi Sai temple, Chandrasekharpur, Hanuman temples, Jayadev Vihar and Paikanagar, Satsanga temple, Gada Gopinath Prasad (GGP), Mahakaleswar temple, Bhagabanpur, Gumphuswar Siva temple, Chandrasekharpur, Banadurgapur temple, Chandrasekharpur and Hanuman temple, Ghatikia.
The cases which are sub-judice relate to Satyasai temple, Chandrasekharpur, Sriram temple, Chandrasekharpur, Hanuman temple, Gobindaprasad, Dakshinakali temple, Jayadev Vihar, Jagannath temple, Jayadev Vihar and Sanichar temple, Bhoi Nagar.