The 181 IAS probationers and two probationers from the Royal Bhutan Civil Service, who are on a four-day study tour to Odisha as part of their Bharat Darshan programme, visited the Maa Tara Tarini Shakti Peetha on Wednesday.
They took detailed information about the development works and had a Darshan of the Maa.The trainees also visited the 2250 years old world famous rock edicts of Emperor Ashoka at Jaugada, which is 7 km from the Shakti Peetha andother places of Ganjam district.
Jaugada was known as Sampa/Samapa during ancient times and it was capital city of the great Kalinga Empire. It is believed that Maa Tara Tarini Shakti Peetha was the epi-centre of religion, art, culture, literature, trade and commerce of the Kalingan society at that time.