Locals urge govt to avoid wasting Raibania fort land from encroachment in Balasore
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By Express News Service
BALASORE: Members of the Raibania Fort Development Committee (RFDC) have sought the intervention of the State authorities for the safety of round 74-acre land belonging to Raibania fort below the Jaleswar constituency from encroachment.
Members of RFDC and locals raised the difficulty earlier than Tourism Minister Aswini Kumar Patra throughout a gathering which was attended by Additional Chief Secretary Madhusudan Padhi, officers of the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) and the Tourism and Culture division.
RFDC president Brijesh Kumar Rana mentioned restoration of the fort has been delayed attributable to encroachment of huge patches of land round it.
The Jagannath temple on
Raibania fort premises | Express
The ASI and Tourism and Culture division began the restoration work of the fort in January 2021. But reportedly owing to a scarcity of coordination between departments, unscheduled energy cuts, insufficient water provide and rains, restoration of the fort and Jagannath and Shiva temples on its premises has been delayed.
The members of the committee mentioned no less than 72-acre land belongs to the fort and a pair of.62 acres to Goddess Gada Chandi. Large patches of the fort land have been encroached upon by some locals.
The Tourism Minister mentioned a grasp plan can be ready for the safety and growth of the fort. Discussions had been held on methods to finish the restoration of the fort and tackle the difficulty of encroachment. This aside, it was determined that the Odisha Institute of South Asian Studies can be given the duty of conducting analysis on the fort.
As per official stories, round Rs 1.31 crore has been sanctioned for the fort’s growth together with Rs 50 lakh below National Rurban Mission (NRuM), Rs 50 lakh from the panchayat fund, Rs 16 lakh from the Zilla Parishad fund and Rs 15 lakh from the Tourism and Culture division.
Around Rs 15 lakh was sanctioned for the development of an entry gate to the fort in 2019-20. However, the funds stay unutilised. The Eleventh-century fort has three gates – Singhadwar (east), Hatidwara (west) and Sunamukhidwar (south) with a number of structural stays of the Gada Chandi temple, remark towers and greater than 50 water our bodies.
BALASORE: Members of the Raibania Fort Development Committee (RFDC) have sought the intervention of the State authorities for the safety of round 74-acre land belonging to Raibania fort below the Jaleswar constituency from encroachment.
Members of RFDC and locals raised the difficulty earlier than Tourism Minister Aswini Kumar Patra throughout a gathering which was attended by Additional Chief Secretary Madhusudan Padhi, officers of the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) and the Tourism and Culture division.
RFDC president Brijesh Kumar Rana mentioned restoration of the fort has been delayed attributable to encroachment of huge patches of land round it.
The Jagannath temple on
Raibania fort premises | ExpressThe ASI and Tourism and Culture division began the restoration work of the fort in January 2021. But reportedly owing to a scarcity of coordination between departments, unscheduled energy cuts, insufficient water provide and rains, restoration of the fort and Jagannath and Shiva temples on its premises has been delayed.
The members of the committee mentioned no less than 72-acre land belongs to the fort and a pair of.62 acres to Goddess Gada Chandi. Large patches of the fort land have been encroached upon by some locals.
The Tourism Minister mentioned a grasp plan can be ready for the safety and growth of the fort. Discussions had been held on methods to finish the restoration of the fort and tackle the difficulty of encroachment. This aside, it was determined that the Odisha Institute of South Asian Studies can be given the duty of conducting analysis on the fort.
As per official stories, round Rs 1.31 crore has been sanctioned for the fort’s growth together with Rs 50 lakh below National Rurban Mission (NRuM), Rs 50 lakh from the panchayat fund, Rs 16 lakh from the Zilla Parishad fund and Rs 15 lakh from the Tourism and Culture division.
Around Rs 15 lakh was sanctioned for the development of an entry gate to the fort in 2019-20. However, the funds stay unutilised. The Eleventh-century fort has three gates – Singhadwar (east), Hatidwara (west) and Sunamukhidwar (south) with a number of structural stays of the Gada Chandi temple, remark towers and greater than 50 water our bodies.
