Jan 07, 2014 — JAGANNATHA PURI, ORISSA 
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The Jagannath Temple Administration in Puri has decided to beautify the
surroundings of the shrine by developing landscape lighting along the
boundary wall (meghanad pacheri). Though the Archaeological
Survey of India (ASI) recently planted saplings along the boundary wall,
lack of maintenance has damaged its beauty.
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The Jagannath Temple Administration in Puri has decided to beautify the
surroundings of the shrine by developing landscape lighting along the
boundary wall (meghanad pacheri). Though the Archaeological
Survey of India (ASI) recently planted saplings along the boundary wall,
lack of maintenance has damaged its beauty.
"ASI authorities expressed their difficulty to develop and preserve the
park around the temple due to funds crunch. The temple administration
is ready to create landscapes and install lighting facility," temple's
Chief Administrator Arvind Padhee said after holding discussions with
ASI authorities at Puri on Tuesday.
"In nighttime, landscape lighting would provide visual delight to
pilgrims," Padhee said. The temple body is planning to develop the
landscape lighting in public-private-partnership (PPP) mode. The
proposed landscaping is also aimed at preventing vendors from
encroaching on the periphery of the temple.
Though the 12th century shrine
is one of the most famous temples in the country and attracts more than
50,000 pilgrims on a given day, the dirty surroundings of the temple
have of late spoiled the spiritual ambience. Not only vendors have
encroached around the boundary wall -- the temple dumps truck-loads of
garbage, generated from the shrine's kitchen, almost every day. The
scene is equally an eyesore inside the temple, where beautiful
architecture on the walls has been defaced by red stains of betel and
gutka spittoons.
Towards
the end of 2006, the Jagannath Temple administration decided to slap a
fine of Rs 100 on anyone spitting inside the temple, but it was hardly
ever enforced, as temple officials admit. They could not even figure out
how many offenders (both priests and pilgrims) had been fined so far
for spitting inside the temple.
"The rule has not been
implemented in a proper way due to lack of consciousness among people.
Civic sense is a vital ingredient to implement such rules. Fine alone
cannot curb such a habit. Everyone visiting the temple should take it as
a moral responsibility to not deface a holy premise through spitting,"
said a temple officer.
BY: SUN STAFF CORESPONDENT
http://www.harekrsna.com/sun/news/01-14/news5201.htm
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