Details at https://www.ekamra-walks.com/ 

Currently they have: Nature Trails; Food Trails and Museum Trails

Yesterday two new routes (41 and 42) were announced to be operational from 24th Jan 2023: https://twitter.com/CRUT_BBSR/status/161...3090333698

See details of all routes at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...sp=sharing .

Route 41 is between Baramunda ISBT and DRIEMS Tangi. This is the first bus that connects DRIEMS Tangi (Kapilas Road). 
The bus from Baramunda end takes the NH all the way till Link Road then it goes to Badambadi, turns around and goes back to Link road and then proceeds to Tangi on the NH.

Route 41 is between Baramunda ISBT and Nandankanan. This is the first bus that takes the Chandaka - Khandagiri road btween Chandaka and Kalinga studio chhack. From the Nadankanan end it first goes towards Cuttack and then takes the Nandankanan backside road to Daruthenga then on to Chandaka and then to Mathematics Institute and then to Kalinga studio chhack. From there it goes East to Jagannath Vihar and then South to Fire station square on the NH and then to Baramunda ISBT via the NH.

Due to the addition of Route 41 and 42, the overall schedules is slightly revised and the revised scheduled from 24th January 2023 was posted in the social media, such as https://twitter.com/CRUT_BBSR/status/161...8064999424 .

Since the above link from Samaja may vanish, following is a summary:

Quote:The East Coast Dedicated Freight Corridor was approved in 2019. It is 1115 kms between Kharagpur and Vijaywada. There will be nine new stations for this in Odisha. They are: New Armada Rd, New Balasore, New Bhadrak North, New Bhadrak South, New Jakhapura, New Haridaspur, New Rajathagarh, New Kuhudi, New Berhampur/Dayapalli. There was arial survey in Ganjam for this corridor.

Following is an excerpt from https://www.thehindu.com/business/coal-i...424476.ece .

Quote:Coal India arm MCL is in the process of diversifying into power generation and will set up a coal-based plant entailing an investment of about ₹12,000 crore in Odisha, its chairman-cum-managing director O. P. Singh said.

Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd. (MCL) also has plans to diversify into aluminium business.

IMI Bhubaneswar (https://imibh.edu.in/) is a business school in Bhubaneswar that started in 2011. Some initial funding perhaps came from IMI Delhi and the Goenka group. (Industrialist Sanjeev Goenka is the Chair of Board of Governors.) That same year IMI Kolkata also debuted. 

IMI Bhubaneswar has been doing well. It has now 22 faculty. Its student numbers have steadily increased, and is now more than 100 per year. Following shows how its number increased steadily (Collected from https://imibh.edu.in/earlier_admission_reports ) 

2011-13 (12)
2012-14 (24)
2013-15 (18)
2014-16 (16)
2015-17 (46)
2016-18 (63)
2017-19 (70)
2018-20 (101) 

2019-21 (108) - From https://imibh.edu.in/UserFiles/Image/19_21AR.pdf 
2020-22 (115) - From https://imibh.edu.in/UserFiles/Image/20_22AR.pdf 
2021-23 (111)
2022-24 (180)

It has a diverse student body. For the 2020-22 batch the student body came from the following states:

Bihar 11
Delhi 6
Chhattisgarh 2
Jharkhand 23
Madhya Pradesh 2
Odisha 18
Rajasthan 2
Uttar Pradesh 15
Uttarakhand 1
West Bengal 27
Andhra Pradesh 1
Assam 4
Haryana 2
Kerala 1

Its total fees for two years is about 13 lakhs (see https://imibh.edu.in/pgdm_fee_structure )

Its ranking information is given at https://imibh.edu.in/imi_in_b-school_rankings . In some of the rankings it is ranked higher than some of the IIMs.

This institute should aim to become a university (Goenka University) 5-10 years later and add add multiple programs. Perhpas the Odisha government should approach Mr. Goenka about this.

Note: See https://odishadev.odishasociety.org/thread-89.html for an earlier posting on this.)

DAV is a brand name in India, and its schools in Bhubaneswar are ranked very high and are providing quality education with comparatively low cost. 

The DAV School of Business Management in Bhubaneswar (https://www.dsbm8.org/) has been providing quality B.Com and BBA education. As per its recent prospectus (https://www.dsbm8.org/pdf/DSBM-PROSPECTUS-22-23.pdf )  7 of its BBA students  and 8 of its B.Com students were among the top  10 in the university. 

Recently (perhaps last year) it has introduced PG Diploma in management. See https://www.dsbm8.org/pgdmform.php .  I hope this program does well and the institution becomes a university. Perhaps some people can donate a significant amount to their trust towards that goal.

There is a DAV University in Jalandhar, Punjab (https://www.davuniversity.org/) with a wide range of disciplines.

Links: 

• https://www.facebook.com/notes/10160296303092678/ 
  

I had several communication with Dr. Guruprasad Mohapatra, IAS about Bhubaneswar airport. He was the Chairman of the Airports Authority of India that time.

He passed away due to Covid in June 2021. (https://indianexpress.com/article/cities...d-7366007/) 

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As per https://odishabytes.com/international-te...-2023/amp/ the connector between the international terminal and current domestic terminal will be completed by March 2023. The link building will be used for international arrival and the international terminal will be used for international departure. Following is an image of the link building from 2019: https://twitter.com/otvnews/status/1099291952103809024 



See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WD4GLGy...ityofIndia . 

See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8mo1nlL...hannel=OTV .

See the thread https://odishadev.odishasociety.org/thre...t-532.html . While the initial list at https://archive.pib.gov.in/documents/rli...102503.pdf and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharatmala seems positive for Odisha, in terms of ground development of access-controlled expressways, Odisha is no where. This is really alarming as in 5 years when all the various access-controlled expressways come up with very little in Odisha, manufacturing companies will hesitate to set shop in Odisha as transporting without access-controlled expressways will be slower in odisha.

In a perverse way the GQ passing through coastal Odisha seems to be working against Odisha in that the central government prefers access controlled expressways to be mostly greenfield as it is cheaper and faster than broadening existing national highways to access controlled expressways. The reasons it is expensive to broaden existing national highways to access controlled expressways are:

• acquiring additional land is expensive. (land adjacent to existing NH is expensive)
  
  
• since existing NH can not be closed, constructing additional lanes, interchanges etc. is time consuming.
  

• Hyderabad - Koraput - Dhenakanal (close to Bhubaneswar outer ring road) - Baripada - Kolkata
  
  
• Bhubaneswar outer ring road 
  
  
• Sambalpur - Varanasi
  
  
• Paradeep - Ranchi