Puri: The Odisha Law department on Thursday released the names of members of the Sri Jagannath Temple Managing Committee through a gazette notification.
As per the notification, the state government has nominated ten persons to be the members of the Committee. The members nominated include Sidheswar Mohapatra, Madhab Pujapanda, Nilakantha Mohapatra, Madhab Chandra Mohapatra, Ananta Kumar Tiadi, Ram Das Mohapatra, Sachidananda Das Maharaj, Bijaya Sahu, Raghunath Mohapatra and Mahimohan Tripathy.
However, Puri Gajapati Maharaja Dibyasingha Deb will remain the permanent Chairman of the Managing Committee.
The notification was released in pursuance to clauses (i), (j), (k), (l) of sub-section (1) of Section 6 of Sri Jagannath Temple Act, 1954 (Odisha Act 11 of 1955).
The tenure of the last panel ended on July 23 last year. As per the temple tradition, the state government reconstitutes the Srimandir managing committee every three years and the Gajapati king is its permanent chairperson.