Nabarangpur, (Ranjit Nayak) Date: 23.01.2026 Rikh: The ground breaking ceremony for the construction of Laxminrasingh temple has been held at Lalita near Nabarangpur city! Govind Mahapatra, a resident here, donated an acre of land from his father’s property to the temple management trust! Mr. Mahapatra has made a temple on his donation land and a welfare mandap in this area and has expressed the intention to employ it in the service of the people for the welfare of the society! On the day before the ground puja, the temple trust brought an obodamaal from the Simsherag Shri Barah Narasimha temple and another obodamaal from the Puri Srijagannath temple! Two commandments and punyashilas from Nabarangpur Jagannath Temple, accompanied by hundreds of devotees, came out of a huge procession and reached the temple near Gham village! Home Yajna was performed here by learned priests and stones were installed! It was attended by honorable Nabarangpur MLA Gauri Shankar Majhi, Government Advocate Jadeshwar Khadanga, Samaj Sevi Jagannath Mahapatra, Martyrs Memorial Parliament State Speaker Munna Tripathi, Chief Engineer Muhammad Sakur, Matri Asyashan Ashram President Kadambini Tripathi, hundreds of devotees and Gandham representatives! However, in this trust, Devendra Pagar is the president, Jagannath Behera is the vice president, Dasharthi Patnaik is the editor, Yudhisthir Parida is the treasurer, Shivashkar Tripathi is the editor along with Rabindra Bhanj Panda, Panga Mohanty, M. Anand Rao, Kailash Chandra Subudhi, Narendra Naik, Bal Gopal Patnaik, Rajendra Prasad Mahapatre, CH Venkat Rao, CH. Bhaskar Rao, Kamal Ghosh, Devi Prasad Tripathi, Jytirmay Mahapatra, Nilgok Bhatra, Rita Sikdar, Manorama Majhi, Hemlata Majhi and other executive committee members along with Sunil Maharana, Rinarani Sahu, Narmada Mani Ghograhi, Suchanda, M. Anita Anand were prominently present!
Ranjit Naik’s report from Nabarangpur First News Odisha !