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
  

The site https://themetrorailguy.com/ has information on

• Metro rail (existing and planned) across India: https://themetrorailguy.com/metro-rail-p...-in-india/ 
  
• Semi High Speed Rail across India
  
• High Speed Rail and bullet trains across India: https://themetrorailguy.com/high-speed-r...-in-india/
  
• Expressways across India: 
  • https://targetkicker.com/article/Express-ways-in-India 
    
    
  • https://themetrorailguy.com/ 
    

Following is linked to a Sambada article. 

Following is linked to a Sambada article https://sambadepaper.com/imageview_26106..._1_sf.html .

20832/20831 Sambalpur-Shalimar-Sambalpur Tri-Weekly Express via Talcher 

Following is from https://pragativadi.com/puri-jaleswar-pa...-tomorrow/

Quote:20832/20831 Sambalpur-Shalimar-Sambalpur Tri-Weekly Express via Talcher and Bhadrak will leave Sambalpur at 1910hrs (07.10p.m.) on every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursdays w.e.f. 3rd January, 2023 and will leave from Shalimar at 2125hrs (09.25p.m.) on every Monday, Wednesday and Fridays w.e.f. 4th January’2023.

New Jaleswar-Puri passenger train.

Following is an excerpt from https://pragativadi.com/puri-jaleswar-pa...-tomorrow/

Quote:08416/08415 Puri-Jaleswar-Puri Passenger will leave Puri at 1315hrs (01.15p.m.) towards Jaleswar w.e.f. 31st December’2022 and will leave Jaleswar at 0450hrs (04.50a.m.) towards Puri, daily, w.e.f. 1st January, 2023.

Earlier Bhubaneswar had blight connectivity to Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok. Th Bangkok flights stopped in the 4th quarter of 2019 and the KL flights stopped during the pandemic. See https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...sp=sharing for the passenger numbers prior to that.

As per the latest news Odisha government has approved a bid by Indigo regarding connectivity to Bangkok, Singapore and Dubai. Following are excerpts from https://kalingatv.com/state/direct-inter...swar-soon/ .

Quote:Direct flight operation to international destinations Dubai, Singapore and Bangkok will commence soon from Bhubaneswar. The proposal got the nod of the State Cabinet today in the meeting.

As per reports, it was proposed in the cabinet that it is necessary to make Odisha a leading State in the field of international flight operations. ...

A RFP was floated for selection of a suitable airline operator in this matter. M/s lndiGo has applied for its operation through these routes.

As a result, 186 seater flights will be operated from BPI Airport, Bhubaneswar and the expenditure will be borne by the State Government towards this flight operation while the revenue generated through ticketing will be retained by State Government.