Bhubaneswar: Law Minister Pratap Jena is not impressed with the Centre’s decision to put the draft heritage bylaws notification for two temples in Bhubaneswar’s Ekamra Khetra on hold.
In a letter to his Cabinet colleague from Odisha Pratap Sarangi, Union Culture Minister Prahlad Singh Patel had informed about having asked the officers concerned to keep the proposal on hold.
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“The final decision on the same would be taken only after the matter is discussed and deliberated with all the stakeholders and considering their views thereon,” Patel wrote.
Jena, however, said that the bylaws had undermined the development works in and around the temples. “It should not be put on hold but withdrawn,” he said.
