Bhubaneswar: The Odia Language, Literature and Culture Department on Wednesday decided to restore the ancestral residence of Nobel laureate and poet Rabindranath Tagore in Puri and develop it into a museum.

According to an official statement issued on Wednesday, several key decisions, including the restoration of ‘Pather Puri’, the ancestral residence of Tagore, were taken during a high-level review meeting of the Department held here under the chairmanship of Culture Minister Suryabanshi Suraj.

“The ancestral residence of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, ‘Pather Puri’, located in Puri, will be restored and developed into a museum dedicated to the memory of the great poet,” informed the Odisha Culture Department.

It was also decided in the high-level meeting that eminent Odia writers and t

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