Chief minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated a multipurpose recreational jetty at Satpada in Puri on Friday. A total of 200 boats can anchor at the jetty at a time and Rs 19 crore was spent in completion of the project. The…
South Chilika Coast – Back in Time : A nice Blog by Jitu Mishra of Virasat E Hind
It was a sultry September night of 1996 and I was camping in a government dak bungalow in a small town, Huma in Odisha’s Ganjam District. I, along with my mentor Prof K.K. Basa, was surveying the southern coast of…
Women of Odisha show the way of enterprise, lead the way by cleaning Ansupa Lake – Goonj
Ansupa is Odisha’s second largest lake, surrounded by village Malabiharpur in Cuttack. Once a tourist spot, over the years as weeds took over, the lake was dying a slow death. When the Goonj team first met the local Women Self…
Been to Tampara Wetlands in Ganjam yet? Its All set to get facelift for Tourists
Tampara, a wetland near Chatrapur in Ganjam district on NH-5, will get a facelift soon.The wetland was inaugurated as a tourist spot on March 22, 2006. The 5.8 km-long and 670 metre-wide wetland, used for water sports and boating earlier,…