PURI: Sale of non-vegetarian food along the Grand Road will be banned henceforth. This was decided at the final preparatory meeting, presidedover by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on the annual Rath Yatra, held onWednesday. This year, the Rath Yatra will be held on July 3.It was also decided that all billboards and hoardings obstructing the temple viewwould be removed. Naveen directed the officials concerned to limit the number of servitors on the three chariots as per the guidelines. The old Kanakmundi, a decorative canopy above the Ratna Simhasan in the sanctum sanctorum, would be replaced by a new one by the Archaeological Survey of India.This apart, the house directed the authorities concerned to seal five unsafebuildings close to temple. Among others, Law Minister Bikram Keshari Arukh, Energy Minister Atanu Sabyasachi, Health Minister Prasanna Acharya, Panchayati Raj Minister Maheswar Mohanty, Agriculture MinisterPradip Maharathy, Tourism Minister Prafulla Samal, local MP Pinaki Mishra, Chief Secretary Bijay Patnaik, DGP Manmohan Praharaj and temple administrator PK Mohapatra were present.Before the meeting, police rounded up 10 councillors who rallied around the city to submit memorandums to the Chief Minister on civic problems.
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