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Jaya
Jagannath,
With a massive
chariot complete structured and now witnessing final touches of
color shading, miscellaneous wood work and clothing trials, we
heartily express gratitude to all the devotees of Lord Jagannath who
voluntarily came forward to contribute and sponsor this project.
Responsibilities of each and every brothers
and Sisters :
1. Apply for leave for 4th July Friday : As this year, Sri
Gundicha Rath Yatra falls on 4th of July, It’s our honest request
hereby to please apply for leave on 4th July 2008. The function is
followed by a huge traditional Oriya style Anna Dalma Prasad sevan
facility for all devotees. Apart from this Snana Purnima, the most
spectacular bathing ceremony of Lord Jagannath will be held on 18th
of June 2008. After that as per tradition, Lord Jagannath Will fall
sick and will be inside closed room ( Anasara Ghara ) till Rath
Yatra. Hence I would also appreciate people to take half day off
during the morning hour only on 18th Jnne and come and enjoy
participating Snana Purnima at Sri Jagannath Temple.
Sample leave application :
Hello XXXX,
Requesting here with to be granted leave for 4th of July 2008.
This year 4th of July the world famous Rath Yatra ( Car Festival )
of Lord Sri Jagannath Swami is going to be celebrated across the
world. Here in Bangalore there is a Sri. Jagannath Temple situated
at HSR Lay out near Koramangala, where a similar massive arrangement
has been done to celebrate Rath Yatra. The celebration will be
through out the day marked by a huge wooden chariot with Lord
Jagannath, Devi Subhadra and Lord Balabhadra aboard being hand
pulled in a procession by Lakhs of devotees. Me basically belonging
to Orissa and a proud devotee of Lord Sri Jagannath of Puri, wish to
be a part of this majestic festival.
Wish you to please let me be on leave that day. I will ensure to
communicate work related urgencies if any to my colleagues well in
advance.
Regards
YYYYYYYY
2. Email spreads : Friends we personally request on behalf of
Sri Jagannath Temple Trust, to please spread the news of Rath Yatra
Celebrations to every one in your friend circle, interested
colleagues and relatives. Let’s trigger those chain of mails to all
in our senders list and do the same frequently so as to ensure no
one misses this world famous celebration at Bangalore.
3. Word of mouth : Apart from emails let’s also spread the
news of Rath Yatra thru word of mouth to each and every friend that
we meet on road, shopping malls, restaurant, play ground and cinema
halls. Let’s invite relatives from cities around India where
unfortunately there is no Jagannath Temple, to come down to
Bangalore and be our guest and enjoy this Rath Yatra along with us.
4. Calls and SMSs : Let’s use our cell phones extensively to
call and SMS to our closed special ones, friends and relatives to
join us during Rath Yatra celebration. Let’s have a date with
Jagatara Natha Lord Jagannath on 4th July along with all our kiths
and kins.
5. Friendly reminders : Sending a mail or telling once is not
just enough to incite some one is incomplete unless we give timely
reminders too. Here after let’s do this very honestly and sincerely
to all people around to ensure their presence that day.
6. Precaution against Pick pockets, shoe lifters, cell phone
& camera stealers : Let’s not come with costly shoes and loaded
wallets or vanity bags. Please avoid keeping a hefty violet with
lot’s of credit and debit cards along with currency. Be careful
about your cell phone, cameras and other electronic gadgets.
7. Dress code for devotees : We appreciate a cute well
dressed traditional outfit on Rath Yatra. Girls are requested not to
put on gorgeous or indecent cloths, costly ornaments on that day.
8. Bhajan collection for Nine days : we are planning to play
all famous hit bhajans of Lord Jagannath during this festival tenure
and singer’s special per day during nine days of celebration. We are
planning to play each day a collection of all super hits of Bhikari
Bala, Sikandar Alam, Mohammed Aziz, Arabinda Muduli, Akshaya Mohanty,
Anuradha Podwal, Namita Agarwal, Chita Jena, Subhas Das, Basanta
Patra, Nimai Harichandan, Pinaki Nayak, Sarita Dash, Swapna Abasti,
Shakti Mishra, Pankaj Jal and so many others. We requesyt you if you
have any collections of any of the above singers, then please fire
it on a CD and donate to Sri Jagannath Temple.
Responsibilities of Temple Trust members :
Apart from the above responsibilities, we the temple trust members
are also loaded with the following pending tasks.
1. Letter to BDA / Municipality for cleanliness and arrangements,
Local Police for Law and Order, hospitals for back up Ambulance and
first aid tool kits, State Electricity Board and BSNL for not doing
any digging activity and under ground cabling during that period,
Local TV cable service providers for grounding their low hanging
cables.
2. Printing of invitation letters, Banners, Posters, Hand Outs, Wall
Papers.
3. Composing and following up for TV channel & FM Radio
Advertisements.
4. Garbage cleaning in temple vicinity, Slab covering of open
exhausts and sewage, parking lot service road labeling.
5. Brake preparation, Chariot Cloth stitching, decorations, Finalizing of Tahia
preparations
6. Arrangement of huge Parking lot, Racked Shoe stand with free
token system and shoe guard
7. Buying of Ropes ( 2 inches thick for Chariot pulling, 1 inch
thick for safety cordoning ), flower arrangements, Box arrangements
to be used as hundi during Rath Yatra.
8. Making of T shaped wooden plank for lifting wires and cables on
road during procession.
9. Trial dry run of the chariot to ensure load balancing and
technical endurance.
10. Rath Yatra Procession Route Identification and final inspection
of the route.
11. Drinking water tanker ordering, following up with Tent House for
decorating temple and Mausi Maa Temple.
12. Follow up with Mausi Maa temple trust and Logistics arrangements
13. Follow up with high profile people and chief guests for their
presence on the celebration day.
Let's all join
together to make this first ever Rath Yatra Celebration a golden
memory for ever. For any relevent discussions, suggestions or
clarifications please call me ( Siba Ram Baral ) at 9 8 4 5 7 6 0 8
4 8 or mail at
siba.ram.baral@sap.com. Jaya Jagannath....
Best Regards,
Nilachakra
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