A Surprising Business

Puri (Reporters Today Bureau): In the past, those who had chulis were considered rich. After the gold and land, Sri Mandir chuli was the main property. Many myths about the breaking of the temple’s kitchen are now coming to light. Billions of rupees are being spent on chuli. Even the chuli was being held hostage. Let’s find out now from these amazing things.

• The breaking of the Chuli is not new. It has been broken many times before.
• The ownership of the chuli has often been the subject of controversy
• The chuli of Jagannath temple were mortgaged.
• The girls are also given as dowry
• All of these transactions have no paperwork
• All transactions take place orally
• Billions of rupees are earned from the chuli business.

The number of chulis in the temple are 240, where cakes, rice, and ahiya are being cooked. The demand for rice chulis are more than other. The ahia chuli is square. The chuli is set on fire, and pulses, vegetables, and khata are made from it. In the past, most of the chulis were named after various monasteries and cooks. Over times, the cooks took lease these from the monastery and cooked on it. Some of the cooks paid millions of rupees to the monastery to use the chulis. Later, some cooks took these on rent and earned more than Rs 40,000 or Rs 50,000 a week.

In the past, some supakaras (cooks) even gave these chulis as dowry to their daughter at the time of marriage. All of these were done orally. So there have been instances of breaking the kitchen at various times. There have also been group clashes over this. There was a dispute between the sebayatas/brothers over the chulis. This case prevailed for more than 20 years. At that time, the number of broken chulis were limited to 4 to 5. So the media didn’t pay much attention to it. But now it is 40, so came to discussion. Police is investigating. A young man has also been arrested in connection with the incident. It’s time to bring the incident to light.