The records of over 60,000 acre of land in the name of Lord Jagannath will soon be digitised after the Odisha Government's approval, an official said.
There is 60,426 acre of land in Odisha and 395.252 acre in six other States in the name of Mahaprabhu Jagannath Bije, Chief Administrator of Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) V.V. Yadav said after a meeting of its managing committee, chaired by Gajapati Maharaja Dibya Singha Deb of Puri.
Outside Odisha, the largest land parcel is in West Bengal — 322.930 acre, while 28.21 acre is in Maharastra, 25.11 acre in Madhya Pradesh, 17.02 acre in Andhra Pradesh, 1.7 acre in Chhattisgarh and 0.27 acre in Bihar, official sources said.
