Puri: After being closed to devotees for nine months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Jagannath temple here will reopen in the third week of December, the shrine administration announced on Saturday.
This was decided at a meeting of the Chhattisha Nijog (apex body of servitors) on Saturday.
Briefing the media after the meeting, Chief Administrator of the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA), Krishan Kumar said it was decided that temple will be reopened between December 22 and 24.
The SJTA will send a recommendation in this regard to the Odisha government in a couple of days, Kumar added.
