A monkey that carved a special niche foritself in a group of Orissa villages is to have a temple built in its memory after it died of an electric shock.
The residents of three villages in this coastal state bade an emotional farewell to the simian by taking out a grand procession after its death last Sunday.
They plan to build a temple to commemorate it and have formed a committee to gather funds for the purpose, a community leader said Wednesday.
The simian adopted Rajnagar village, 150 km from here, as its home three years ago.
The leader said the monkey had come to the village from the Bhitarkanika wild life sanctuary in Kendrapada district, where it had lived since birth.
Bhitarkanika, famous for its flora and fauna and known as the world's largest rookery of Olive Ridley turtles, is barely 20 km from where the monkey used to stay.