Vir Vikram Yadav Appointed Chief Administrator Of SJTA In Puri

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government on Monday appointed senior IAS officer Vir Vikram Yadav as new Chief Administrator of Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA), Puri.

An official notification issued by the Law Department said, “In exercise of the powers conferred by the sub-section (1) of section 19 of Shree Jagannath Temple Act, 1954 (Odisha Act, 11 of 1955), the state government hereby appoints Vir Vikram Yadav as Chief Administrator, SJTA, Puri, in addition to his present duties.”

Yadav, a 1996 batch IAS officer, had earlier held the chief administrator post of SJTA in a bureaucratic reshuffle by the government in April, 2022.

Earlier, the government had transferred Samanth Verma, additional chief administrator and in-charge Chief Administrator of SJTA as Additional Secretary, Works Department.