Overview
- Following state approval of a 14-page SOP, the Shree Jagannath Temple Managing Committee will set the commencement date and timing, with the law minister indicating a likely start in the first week of March.
- The Orissa High Court has ordered the state to complete the inventory and cross-verification within three months after a public interest petition.
- SJTA has formed supervisory and handling panels that include temple servitors, empanelled goldsmiths from public-sector banks, gemologists and Reserve Bank of India officials.
- The process will proceed in phases under CCTV with photography and videography, digital cataloguing, confidentiality agreements, restrictions on devices and metals, and daily deposit of inner-chamber keys at the district treasury in a magistrate’s presence.
- Roughly 24 feasible working days have been identified before Rath Yatra to avoid disrupting rituals and darshan, and the exercise will document items for tally with the 1978 records without assigning market value.