Kitchen concern over Ananta Vasudev security

By Express News Service

BHUBANESWAR: Raising concern over the protection of Ananta Vasudev temple – a thirteenth century protected shrine – the National Monument Authority (NMA) has really helpful the State Government to shift the monument’s Rosaghara (kitchen) exterior its prohibited space.

An analogous suggestion was made to the federal government by Director General, Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), V Vidyavathi throughout her go to to the State in February. She, too, had expressed concern over the risk to the monument from the fireplace and smoke emanating from the kitchen situated nearly 2.5 metres from the primary shrine. Apart from the intricately carved temple partitions, there are two uncommon inscriptions positioned close to the kitchen.

The NMA in its ‘no objection’ letter to Odisha Buildings and Constructions Corporation (OBCC), implementing company for Ekamra Kshetra Heritage Development mission, really helpful that the kitchen situated throughout the protected monument could also be shifted to an applicable location ideally within the regulated space to mitigate the opposed impression on the shrine.

Demands for shifting the kitchen have been made again and again by heritage conservationists for over a decade. There have been a number of events when the temple kitchen – beforehand a thatched roof construction which has now been changed by asbestos – has caught fireplace from the wooden used for cooking, the final occasion being in 2018.

There are 20 large chullahs (wooden fired) within the kitchen and as many retailers within the Ananda Bazaar of the temple the place prasad is served and bought to devotees. Head of the Brahman Nijog Biranchi Narayan Pati mentioned the kitchens are owned by 25 members of Suar Nijog however at the least 700 Nijog members eke out residing from the temple kitchen. They are concerned in works like cooking, slicing greens, meals preparation, supplying water and clay vessels, serving and promoting meals to devotees.

Conservationists mentioned whereas ASI norms don’t permit cooking ‘prasad’ in giant portions in such shut proximity to the primary shrine, the protected temple standing has not deterred the sevayats from doing so.The 2018 fireplace had broken your entire kitchen and essential temple to some extent. Although State Government in 2013 requested Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation to construct a brand new kitchen for the temple at an alternate website, the thought was protested by the Suara Nijog and the plan was deserted.

“We have been told that an Ananta Vasudev plaza will come up as a part of Ekamra Kshetra project which may house the kitchen and Ananda Bazaar. If the kitchen is shifted, the government should ensure that each of the 700 members who are dependent on this kitchen are not deprived of their earnings,” mentioned Pati.

BHUBANESWAR: Raising concern over the protection of Ananta Vasudev temple – a thirteenth century protected shrine – the National Monument Authority (NMA) has really helpful the State Government to shift the monument’s Rosaghara (kitchen) exterior its prohibited space.

An analogous suggestion was made to the federal government by Director General, Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), V Vidyavathi throughout her go to to the State in February. She, too, had expressed concern over the risk to the monument from the fireplace and smoke emanating from the kitchen situated nearly 2.5 metres from the primary shrine. Apart from the intricately carved temple partitions, there are two uncommon inscriptions positioned close to the kitchen.

The NMA in its ‘no objection’ letter to Odisha Buildings and Constructions Corporation (OBCC), implementing company for Ekamra Kshetra Heritage Development mission, really helpful that the kitchen situated throughout the protected monument could also be shifted to an applicable location ideally within the regulated space to mitigate the opposed impression on the shrine.

Demands for shifting the kitchen have been made again and again by heritage conservationists for over a decade. There have been a number of events when the temple kitchen – beforehand a thatched roof construction which has now been changed by asbestos – has caught fireplace from the wooden used for cooking, the final occasion being in 2018.

There are 20 large chullahs (wooden fired) within the kitchen and as many retailers within the Ananda Bazaar of the temple the place prasad is served and bought to devotees. Head of the Brahman Nijog Biranchi Narayan Pati mentioned the kitchens are owned by 25 members of Suar Nijog however at the least 700 Nijog members eke out residing from the temple kitchen. They are concerned in works like cooking, slicing greens, meals preparation, supplying water and clay vessels, serving and promoting meals to devotees.

Conservationists mentioned whereas ASI norms don’t permit cooking ‘prasad’ in giant portions in such shut proximity to the primary shrine, the protected temple standing has not deterred the sevayats from doing so.The 2018 fireplace had broken your entire kitchen and essential temple to some extent. Although State Government in 2013 requested Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation to construct a brand new kitchen for the temple at an alternate website, the thought was protested by the Suara Nijog and the plan was deserted.

“We have been told that an Ananta Vasudev plaza will come up as a part of Ekamra Kshetra project which may house the kitchen and Ananda Bazaar. If the kitchen is shifted, the government should ensure that each of the 700 members who are dependent on this kitchen are not deprived of their earnings,” mentioned Pati.