Bhubaneswar, July 4 -- Odisha has stepped up its efforts to protect land belonging to Lord Jagannath by expediting the correction of land records, with the Khurda district administration completing the Record of Rights (RoR) correction for more than 4,713 acres of the temple's land.
Official sources said on Saturday that, following directions from the state government, the correction of RoRs relating to land belonging to Lord Jagannath Temple, Puri, including properties recorded in the names of intermediaries (Marfatdars), has been taken up on a priority basis across various tehsils in Khurda district.
According to the Khurda District Collector, a total of 4,728.357 acres of Lord Jagannath's land spread across 796 khatas have been identif...