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KalingaTimes Correspondent
Puri (Orissa): For the first, the annual Rath Yatra of Lord Jagannath will be webcast live for the benefit of people around the world on Monday.
The rituals connected to the car festival of Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra and the pulling of
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the chariots
on the Grand Road from the main temple to
Gundicha temple will be available on www.rathjatra.nic.in
from 9 am onwards on the Yatra day.
The webcast of the event will be done by
National Informatics Centre.
The live feed of the festival will be collected
from Doordarshan.
The authorities of Jagannath Temple Administration
with the help of National Informatics Centre
have also hosted another website www.jagannath.nic.in
through which devotees can avail information
about Lord Jagannath and various festivals
connected to the Lord. People can also make
donations by using credit cards.
Apart from the live webcast, Rath Yatra
will be telecast live by at least three
television channels on Monday - Doordarshan,
OTV and ETV-Oriya. Other channels such as
Zee, Aajtak and Star are likely to telecast
the Yatra live for a limited period.
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