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Sri Jagannath Temple: Sri Jagannath Temple has 60426 acres of land in Odisha and a total of 400 acres of land in six states. A total of 974 cases have been registered under the Sri Jagannath Temple Act to remove encroachers from 169.86167 acres of land in seven districts of Odisha.
Bhubaneswar. Prithviraj Harichandan, Law Minister in the Odisha government, said in the Assembly on Saturday that the Shri Jagannath Temple in Puri has more than 60,426 acres of land and about 400 acres of land in six other states. Harichandan said this while replying to the written question of Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MLA Sudarshan Haripal in the Assembly.
This 12th century temple located in Puri is governed by the Law Department as per the Shri Jagannath Temple Act, 1956. 60,426.943 acres of land in the name of Lord Jagannath is located in 24 districts of Odisha, while 395.252 acres of temple land is found in six states – West Bengal (322.930 acres), Maharashtra (28.21 acres), Madhya Pradesh (25.11 acres), Andhra Pradesh (17.02 acres), Chhattisgarh (1.7 acres) and Bihar (0.27 acres). Is.
The minister said that the revised land records of 38,061.792 acres are currently with the Shri Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA), Puri. He said that during the verification work, many cases of illegal occupation of temple land have also come to light.
He said that a total of 974 cases have been registered under the Shri Jagannath Temple Act to remove encroachers from 169.86167 acres of land in seven districts of the state. The minister told the assembly that steps were being taken to protect the temple property.
