Vir Vikram Yadav is the New Chief Administrator of Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA)

Bhubaneswar: Vir Vikram Yadav, a 1996-Batch IAS officer, was appointed as the Chief Administrator of Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) in Odisha’s Puri. He will take charge of SJTA in addition to his present duties.

The new SJTA Chief Administrator’s appointment shall have effect from the date when he actually would take over charge, stated the notification issued by the state Law Department.

Yadav succeeds Ranjan Kumar Das, a 2007-Batch IAS officer. Das had taken over the charge of the SJTA in May 2023 in addition to his previous appointment as the Special Secretary of Odia Language, Literature, and Culture Department.