By Express News Service
PURI: The Sri Jagannath temple opened its doorways for devotees on Thursday with out the precondition of necessary manufacturing of Covid-19 destructive report for entry into the Twelfth-century shrine.
The temple gates opened at 5 am and servitors started the day by day rituals of the Trinity with Mangal Arati, Mailam, Tadap Laagi and Abakash adopted by Suryapuja, Rosohoma, Vesha earlier than providing Gopal Bhog to the deities.
Hundreds of devotees entered Srimandir in queue by 9 rows by observing all the security protocols and had darshan of the Trinity.
As per preparations, locals had been first allowed contained in the temple with their ID proof for one hour from 6 am to 7 am. Thereafter, devotees from exterior Puri had darshan of the Trinity in three periods, from 7.30 am to 9 am, 9.30 am to 12 pm and 4.30 pm until closure of the temple gates. Close to 27,000 devotees turned up on the day. The assortment on the hundi went previous Rs 2 lakh.
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The district and Shree Jagannath Temple Administration had made elaborate preparations anticipating an enormous turnout.
Barricades had been raised from Municipal Market Chowk to Lions Gate with solar shed canopies over the barricades. Free shoe and cell stands in addition to ingesting water provisions had been put in place.
Simhadwar, the temple’s entrance, was decked up with flowers whereas the world in entrance of it was adorned with rangolis.
After sanitising their palms and thermal screening, devotees entered the temple gate with chants of chanting ‘Jai Jagannath’ and ‘Haribol’.
They had been requested to not contact something contained in the temple advanced and exit by the North Gate.
As many as 26 platoons of police pressure had been deployed to function in two shifts to make sure clean entry of devotees into the temple.
Earlier, chief administrator of SJTA Dr Krishan Kumar, Puri Collector Samarth Verma, SP Okay Vishal Singh and DIG Asish Singh had visited the temple and determined to increase the barricades and solar sheds. They additionally formulated a normal working process (SOP) for devotees.
