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ASI superintendent DB Garnaik said, “The conservation work of the Srimandir Nata Mandap has already been started. Many components of its conservation work like roof-tightening and leak plugging have been completed. The only work left is the repair of the cracked beam.”   

The repair work of the Nata Mandap will start on February 23 and will continue till March 19. A decision in this regard was taken at the Chhatisa Nijog meeting held on Tuesday. 

Speaking to the media, ASI superintendent (Puri Circle), DB Garnayak said that the crack was an outcome of cabling and pipeline laid on the structure. “The crack has been inspected and the crack-ridden part will be replaced with a new stone structure in two or four days. Its design has been made,” he informed.  

ASI conservation assistant Jyotiprakash Pradhan inspected the part where the crack has appeared. He said,“The portion of the temple where the crack has appeared was covered with earth earlier. Parts of the temple sides were under encroachment. It is being cleared. Due to the Parikrma project, the earth was cleared and the crack has become visible."

Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain, representing the Hindu side in the Gyanvapi case said that the Archaeological Survey of India in its report mentioned that a Hindu temple had existed where the Gyanvapi mosque had been constructed. 

The development comes over a month after the ASI submitted its report on the Gyanvapi Mosque complex before the Varanasi District Court in a sealed cover on December 18.

The laser scanning on 12 points on the northern and upper part of the Ratna Bhandar was done on Wednesday. A report will be prepared which will be submitted to the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) and the Orissa High Court.  

Following an order from the Orissa High Court in 2018, a team of 17 members examined the condition of the Ratna Bhandar, but they could not enter inside as the key of the Ratna Bhandar was not available. 

The SJTA administrator said that the Archeological Survey of India has got a laser scanning machine and will carry out the scanning, particularly after the crowds thin out.

After an important meeting held on Thursday, the Chief Administrator of the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA), Ranjan Das, while briefing journalists, said the restoration work will start from tomorrow morning. 

The HC also ordered that the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) will extend all possible cooperation to the ASI in the restoration work.

The ministry should strive make an effort for 100 per cent utilisation of the budget grants available for promotion and awareness of it's varied schemes being implemented in North eastern areas, it said.

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has filed an application in a Varanasi court, seeking eight more weeks' time for submitting its report of the Gyanvapi mosque survey as the deadline for it ended on September 2 even as the survey is still going on.

The court has fixed September 8 for taking up the application.

In the photographs, taken during Endoscopic Investigation by the ASI, it can be seen that stone slabs and iron beams are in a hanging state.