Orissa

Saswat Pattanayak- Profile

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Saswat Pattanayak : A great blogger on web.

Three cheers to him.You rock.

Suresh

Why an NIS/IISER should be established in Bhubaneswar, Orissa?

Link: Essay_A_Case_for Bhubaneswar.

Why an NIS/IISER should be established in Bhubaneswar, Orissa? India is economically shining as a whole. But it is falling behind in science and technology, especially in research. According to [1], the best Indian university, IISc Bangalore is grouped at 300-400 internationally. The next best, IIT Kharagpur is grouped 400-500 internationally. Within Asia they are grouped 37-65 and 66-93 respectively. For a long time India had 5 IITs and one IISc. Since then even though one new IIT has been established at Guwahati and University of Roorkee has been made to an IIT, with large population increase and with India falling behind in Science, there is a need for more IISc (and possibly even IIT) like institutions. Moreover with India's economy doing well now, India can financially afford to create several more IISc like institutions. The Indian government, scientists and academicians all are aware of the above and thus there are plans to create more IISc like institutions. In this context on 9th December 2003, the then HRD minister Professor M. M. Joshi had announced [2,3] that UGC has established steps to initiate four National Institute of Sciences (NIS) at Bhubaneshwar, Chennai, Pune and Allahabad. Recently [4], Prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh announced the setting up of two Indian Institute of Science Education%

IDCO - Ekamra Haat - Profile

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Raised on a five acres campus, Bhubaneswar Urban Haat, named as EKAMRA HAAT, mainly aims at showcasing Orissan art & artifacts, crafts, weaving marvel, culture and cuisine, besides providing direct marketing access to the crafts persons, sculptors, weavers and performing artists from within the State as well as from other States of the country. An impressive gathering of art & craft loving people from different parts of the State enjoyed the colourful function including the famous Chhau Dance exposition. On this occasion a "Craft Bazar" is being organized by the Commissioner (Handicrafts) and the Commissioner (Handlooms), Ministry of Textiles, Govt of India. Crafts persons / Organisations dealing in art & artifacts and crafts from different States like West Bengal, Assam, Meghalay, Delhi, U. P. etc have displayed their wares here. These exhibitors are doing fabulous business and as per available information the Craft Bazar has already done business worth over Rs. five lakh within just four days of its opening. This clearly indicates the potential of Ekamra Haat as a business centre. The Craft Bazar continues up to the 11th of Nov.

Some observations and suggested plan of actions on the NIS issue - I

Great things are happening on the given below links...Keep tuned there and get into the water rather watch outside....

Here is the Original links
http://iiser.blogspot.com/
www.orissalinks.com

Link: Gross injustice to Orissa:Announced National Inst. of Sc. in Bhubaneswar renamed & shifted.

1. The media in Bhubaneswar is very aware of the issue and have covered it in local papers
(and local editions of national papers) quite a bit. However, despite the local journalists
sending in many articles, the national papers have not covered it in their national editions that much.
Candidly many journalists suggested me that we write en-masse to the national papers
accusing them of neglecting to cover this issue and that may have an impact. I would suggest we do that.

2. Agamee Orissa has a done a great job and has a great plan
in bringing awareness of this issue (and the bigger picture) to the district level in Orissa. They have
lots of plans on this issue and they will bring it out as time unfolds.

3. There has been a few national coverage of this issue. I suggest that we seize them as opportunities
and write to those papers with additional articles on that issue, letters to the editor etc,
Normally, it is easier to publish on an ongoing topic in the newspaper than on a new topic.
So the papers that have already covered the issue have a higher chance of following it up
with more coverage. The particular coverages are

Gross injustice to Orissa:Announced National Inst. of Sc. in Bhubaneswar renamed & shifted

Link: Gross injustice to Orissa:Announced National Inst. of Sc. in Bhubaneswar renamed & shifted.

Gross injustice to Orissa:Announced National Inst. of Sc. in Bhubaneswar renamed & shifted
A nice blog about Orissa.

Suresh

Orissa @ globaloriya.com

This week, we have a lot of good news to share with you. Last week, we felt anxious when we heard about reports on structural weakness of Konark Sun Temple. This week we have some assurance in the form of a government inquiry committee report, which mentions the edifice as safe. Last week, we were eagerly waiting to see if our Hockey team “Orissa Steelers” can break into the Premier Divison. They did it this week with a thrilling win over Imphal Rangers. Kudos to the boys! We were anxious whether the investment climate in the state will suffer because of the recent clashes in Kalinga Nagar. This week some of those notions of fear were dispelled with investors from Russia, UK and Israel flocking to the state and announcing their intention to invest and the much-awaited dedicated Rail-Link corridor getting off with expression of interest being invited. We have been waiting for some sort of representation in Union Council of ministers for long now. This week it got materialized with CS Sahu becoming a Minister of State. But that’s hardly a sort of representation that over 3 Crore of us expected! Seems Orissa has to wait much much longer to get its due representation at center. We have to keep fighting!! Lastly, Government has decided to convert one of our

Read the details of all these news at http://www.globaloriya.com.

ORISSA POLITICS | A Common Platform For Common People

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Orissa politics a cyber platform for intellectual intercourse-is born out of objective outlook and humanistic vision of a host of youth intelligentsia staying outside Orissa. This intellectual intercourse is expected to give birth to pragmatic approach to address our regional backwardness by systematising and prioritising our problems. Orissa politics proposes to realise this broad objective by making cosy interaction between the government and the governed. The main objective of this platform is to intervene in the implementation process for bringing change in state’s development process through debate, discussion, campaign, activism and writing, following a working together approach for creating political entrepreneur for the state and finally, taking certain responsibility in socio-economic and political spheres, which will have tremendous impact on state’s development in the long run.

Zee News - English version of 'Gita Govinda' released

Link: Zee News - English version of 'Gita Govinda' released.

A new English version of the famous epic 'Gita Govinda' written by Bhakti poet Jayadev was brought out by the publications division of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry here. The book, 'The Gita Govinda of Sri Jayadev', written by P C Tripathy and A K Tripathy, who is also Development Commissioner with the Orissa government, was released by Sudha Gopalakrishnan, director of the National Manuscript Mission, a release said. With five chapters on different aspect of the epic, the book contains authentic text of Gita Govinda in each page alongwith original photographs from the illustrated palm leaf script, it said.

From "Deba Nayak" desk...

Suresh

Nandighosha | Nandighosha Guestbook: thoughts, comments, suggestions...

Link: Nandighosha | Nandighosha Guestbook: thoughts, comments, suggestions....

Nandighosha, the e-wheel of Orissa will provide Information Technology related services to training institutes, corporate, educational institutes, both government and non-government organizations and individuals. We, the Bahakas, at Nandighosha aim to promote IT awareness in Orissa for which we would be organizing

- IT Mela’s
- Seminars and workshops
- Question and Answer sessions
- Web site evaluation.
- Will take up project assessment
- Prototypes.
- 24/7 Online professional advice.

Looks really nice...

OdiSA: Odiya SamAja Home

Link: OdiSA: Odiya SamAja Home.

Preamble 

The Odiya Samaja (OdiSA) is an organization of well wishers of Orissa. The society is a non-ethnic, secular and non-political forum. Friendship is the motto of the society. The objective of the society is to promote a friendly and respectful environment for its members. The society will actively promote the heritage, culture, language (Odiya), awareness and pride of the state of Orissa. The society will conduct its business in all fairness and abide by the laws of the country. The society will provide leadership opportunities to its members and help younger to understand, absorb and promote the pride of their heritage. Both Oriya and English will be the official language of the society. The society will work with the people of the state of Orissa in developing fellowship and providing a helping hand as and when needed. The members of the society vow to safeguard the ethics and values of the society and set a standard for excellence at all times.

Objectives

The objectives of the society shall be:
 

1. To extend a warm welcome to one and all who are well wishers of Orissa and Oriya, as members of the society.
2. To be a socio-cultural, educational, non-profit, secular, and non-political organization.
3. To foster friendship and mutual respect amongst fellow members in a democratic environment.
4. To retain, promote, and sustain Oriya culture, Oriya language, and instill the Oriya self-esteem in ones place of residency.
5. To help its members in developing leadership qualities in an amicable and sociable way where friendly competition is valued rather than selfish interests.
6. To reach out to one and all Odiyas in ones community for friendship and most importantly at their time of need.
7. To extend our support to the upliftment of Orissa and facilitate strong ties with its developmental activities.