{"id":8477,"date":"2016-04-21T15:27:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T15:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=8474&amp;preview_id=8474"},"modified":"2016-04-21T15:27:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T15:27:52","slug":"jagannath-temple-selling-land-to-raise-rs-1000-crore-maintenance-corpus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=8477","title":{"rendered":"Jagannath temple selling land to raise Rs.1,000 crore maintenance corpus &#8211; India New England News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single-meta\"><\/aside>\n<p id=\"content\"><strong>Bhubaneswar\u2013<\/strong>At 60,654 acres, Lord Jagannath could be the richest landlord among India\u2019s deities. About 395 acres of it is now being sold to create a Rs.1,000 crore maintenance corpus for the 12th century shrine here in the Lord\u2019s name, an official said.<\/p>\n<p>This is even as land sharks have grabbed vast patches of the 60,259 acres of Jagannath temple land across 23 districts in Odisha. The balance 395 acres is in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and West Bengal. Of these states, West Bengal has the maximum \u2013 322 acres \u2013 owned by the temple.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/indianewengland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Jagannath-Temple.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9357\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-9357 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/indianewengland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Jagannath-Temple.jpg?resize=240,163\" alt=\"Jagannath Temple\" \/><\/a>\u201cThe state government is in the process of selling temple land outside the state,\u201d Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) chief Suresh Mohapatra told IANS.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, the government has also written a letter to the district collector of Nainital in Uttarakhand to pay the market value of a 52-year-old building owned by the temple.<\/p>\n<p>The owner of the two-storeyed building had donated the ground floor to the Jagannath temple on April 26, 1964, and it has been rented out as a post office.<\/p>\n<p>There is, however, a huge catch: the state government does not have land records or \u2018pattas\u2019 for a whopping 27,331 acres spread across 111 tehsils in 23 districts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of 60,259 acres of Jagannath\u2019s land identified by the SJTA, the state has record of rights (ROR) of only 32,927 acres. The balance 27,331 acres have no record of rights,\u201d Law Minister Arun Sahu told the state assembly recently.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that 340 cases have been filed against the land encroachers under the Sri Jagannath Temple Act 1955.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said committees have been formed under the collectors of the districts concerned to collect details on the temple land and expedite the process of acquiring revised records.<\/p>\n<p>The government had also planned to auction part of the temple land to boost the shrine\u2019s revenues. The Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) has been asked to sell the land on plotting basis since it has expertise in land transactions. However, the government\u2019s move has hit a roadblock as several villagers in the Jatani area of Khurdha district have moved the Orissa High Court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have managed to get a stay order from Orissa High Court. We are trying to get the stay order vacated so that about 125 acres can be sold,\u201d Mohapatra said. (IANS)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/indianewengland.com\/2016\/04\/jagannath-temple-selling-land-raise-rs-1000-crore-maintenance-corpus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jagannath temple selling land to raise Rs.1,000 crore maintenance corpus \u2013 India New England News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhubaneswar\u2013At 60,654 acres, Lord Jagannath could be the richest landlord among India\u2019s deities. About 395 acres of it is now being sold to create a Rs.1,000 crore maintenance corpus for the 12th century shrine here in the Lord\u2019s name, an official said. This is even as land sharks have grabbed vast patches of the 60,259 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1485,1125,1486,1487,1488],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}