Bhubaneswar, Aug. 24 -- By Ashutosh Mishra
Bhubaneswar: Odisha government has drawn up grand plans to turn Puri into a world-class heritage city. The government has already launched a demolition drive around the 12th century Jagannath temple, the town's most famous landmark and the focal point of Hindu spirituality, to execute the plan which would focus as much on the comfort of pilgrims and tourists visiting Puri as on the protection of the great shrine visited by lakhs of people every year.
Puri is an old town with a maze of lanes and by-lanes which get choked easily when big events like Rath Yatra take place. On such occasions even the Grand Road, the widest thoroughfare in the town, gets congested. Traffic congestion and related probl...