Digha: The West Bengal Government’s Jagannath temple project which is being constructed at Digha at a cost Rd 100 cr in the lines of Puri shrine will be completed by the end of 2023, said an official on Saturday.
The temple, coming up on a 20-acre plot near the beach, is being built by West Bengal Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation (WBHIDCO), resembling the centuries-old Jagannath Temple in Odisha’s Puri.
The 65-metre-high temple will have idols of Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra and Goddess Subhadra, WBHIDCO chief engineer Suman Neogi said.
The Digha Shankarpur Development Authority (DSDA) will be running the affairs of the temple when the construction is complete, he said.
“We are hopeful about completing the project by the end of next year. Around 200 labourers are working round the clock to realise the dream of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to have a Jagannath Temple, resembling the one in Puri, in Digha,” Neogi said.
The temple will be of red sandstone, which is being brought from Rajasthan, he said.
“We don’t know from where the sandstones of the Puri temple were brought, but we are doing everything possible to have the same architectural flavour,” he added.
