BHUBANESWAR: Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), a subsidiary of the Indian Railways, on Wednesday tendered sincere apology for the usage of a improper photograph within the name of Jagannath Temple of Puri on some posters for promotion of Bharat Darshan Train.
The posters were found within the IRCTC office at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus station in Mumbai and some puts close to the station. After going through flak from the folk from Odisha, it took down such posters immediately.
This factor got here to mild after Sambhu Khuntia, servitor of Puri Jagannath temple, criticized the IRCTC for the misleading poster. He had taken a photograph of the poster during his Mumbai consult with two days ago. He posted the photograph on his Facebook account.
"After noticing the picture, I took up the issue with the concerned railway officials. But they told me that they do not know about the issue. Then I wrote it on my Facebook timeline and people tagged it to the railways," stated the servitor.
Later, Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA), Puri, took up the problem with the IRCTC and general manager of East Coast Railway (ECoR). Jagannath Sena, a social organization, protested the incident in Puri.
Culture minister Ashok Chandra Panda additionally condemned the incident and stated he'll write to the Railway minister concerning the mistake. "It has become a second issue after Air India magazine article published about misleading article on Jagannath temple Prasad. I will urge the Railways not to repeat the mistake in future," he added.
After getting grievance from the folk of Odisha, the west zone and east zone of the IRCTC carried out an inquiry and located the poster has proven Iskcon temple within the place of Puri Jagannath temple. They withdrew all such posters and expressed sincere apology for the error. "This has happened due to an oversight and there was no intention to project any wrong photograph of Jagannath temple of Puri," stated a commentary issued by the west zone of the corporate.
Sudipto Mukherjee, regional manager, IRCTC Bhubaneswar, stated, "We will remain extremely careful in future so that sentiment of the people of Odisha is not hurt by this type of inadvertent act."
On October 29 ultimate 12 months, Air India had offered an unconditional apology to folks of Odisha after folks strongly hostile an article published in Air India's in-flight magazine Shubh Yatra. It had wrongly mentioned that non-vegetarian food is served in Jagannath temple at Puri.
The posters were found within the IRCTC office at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus station in Mumbai and some puts close to the station. After going through flak from the folk from Odisha, it took down such posters immediately.
This factor got here to mild after Sambhu Khuntia, servitor of Puri Jagannath temple, criticized the IRCTC for the misleading poster. He had taken a photograph of the poster during his Mumbai consult with two days ago. He posted the photograph on his Facebook account.
"After noticing the picture, I took up the issue with the concerned railway officials. But they told me that they do not know about the issue. Then I wrote it on my Facebook timeline and people tagged it to the railways," stated the servitor.
Later, Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA), Puri, took up the problem with the IRCTC and general manager of East Coast Railway (ECoR). Jagannath Sena, a social organization, protested the incident in Puri.
Culture minister Ashok Chandra Panda additionally condemned the incident and stated he'll write to the Railway minister concerning the mistake. "It has become a second issue after Air India magazine article published about misleading article on Jagannath temple Prasad. I will urge the Railways not to repeat the mistake in future," he added.
After getting grievance from the folk of Odisha, the west zone and east zone of the IRCTC carried out an inquiry and located the poster has proven Iskcon temple within the place of Puri Jagannath temple. They withdrew all such posters and expressed sincere apology for the error. "This has happened due to an oversight and there was no intention to project any wrong photograph of Jagannath temple of Puri," stated a commentary issued by the west zone of the corporate.
Sudipto Mukherjee, regional manager, IRCTC Bhubaneswar, stated, "We will remain extremely careful in future so that sentiment of the people of Odisha is not hurt by this type of inadvertent act."
On October 29 ultimate 12 months, Air India had offered an unconditional apology to folks of Odisha after folks strongly hostile an article published in Air India's in-flight magazine Shubh Yatra. It had wrongly mentioned that non-vegetarian food is served in Jagannath temple at Puri.
IRCTC tenders apology for depicting wrong photo of Puri Jagannath temple
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