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Suresh Behera

Watch Adivasi (Tribal ) Life

Watch Odissi Video

 

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Suresh Behera

Folk Dances at Orissa

Few interesting links on this topics ..

Jatra | Pala | Daskathia | Gotipua | Naga & Medha | Ghoda Nacha |Bhalu Nacha
Mankada Nacha
Odissi Dance 
Chhow Dance
Danda Nata Dance
Ranapa & Chaiti Ghoda Dance
Koya Dance
Rural Orissa Folk From Orissa Dairy
| Animal Mask dance | Baunsa Rani | Chaiti Ghoda | Dasakatia | Dhuduki Nacha | Prahalad Natak | | Ghanta Mrudanga | Ghanta Patua | Ghoda Nacha | Kendera Gita | Pala | Ram Leela| Ghoomra | Gopala Laudi | Jatra | Jhoomar | |Krishna Leela | Mahari Dance |  | Jodi Sankha | Kandhei Nacha | Kathi Nacha | Kela Keluni | Mahila Palla | Medha Nacha | 

Have a fun.

Suresh Behera

Train are great hope and communication to Orissa

Wha...What a awsome analogy from Chitta Baral.I love this.I wish i would have data to make the projection.
Hoping for the best. I need a train to my District (Nabarangpur,Orissa,India).I am happy that we do not have train to this place but we do have geneses book recorded politician..

Three cheers to Chitta Bhai..You rock..

1. People can look at my compilation at
http://www.orissalinks.com/#railways
as a starting point. It has a lot of pointers to current status
as well as links to last 10 years of Railway budgets.

2. Perhaps someone can analyze the last 10 years
of railway budgets and other data about Railways to
show in detail how Orissa has been neglected over the years.
(A document like the one some of us made on the HRD
inequity in http://www.baral.us/hrd-nh.pdf would be helpful.)
I think some easy statistics already exists.

3. I think parts of Orissa is well connected to rest of India.
Among the various metros the connectivity to Mumbai
seems to be not as good. See
http://www.indianrail.gov.in/7days_avlpress_ctc.html
for the waiting list numbers in the sleeper class.
*So I suggest for the next year the highest priority should be*
*extending Raipur-Sambalpur-Bhubaneswar express*
*to Mumbai.* (Extension is usually easier than introducing
a new train.) An alternative may be to extend
Vidarbha or Sevagram Express (now running between Mumbai and
Nagpur) to Bhubaneswar.

Assuming the Bansapani line gets finished
as planned, a train running on that line and connecting Keonjhar
to BBSR (say a Rourkela-BBSR express via Keonjhar)
should also be of the highest priority.

What else? Before suggesting more frequency, or new
trains on an exisiting route, please have a look at
http://www.indianrail.gov.in/7days_avlpress_bbs.html
http://www.indianrail.gov.in/7days_avlpress_ctc.html
http://www.indianrail.gov.in/7days_avlpress_puri.html
http://www.indianrail.gov.in/7days_avl.html
http://www.indianrail.gov.in/press_release.html
so that one can get an idea on which routes have
high demand now.

(Note: The above also explains why most often new trains
start with a low frequency. So, for example, the new Baripada-BBSR train
can easily run 7 days a week without new bogies and engines.
But before that the Railways prudently test out the demand.)

4. On me being happy with this years budget; yes I am happy.
I think we should be happy, but not necessarily satisfied, when
some good things happen. Almost doubling of the Railway budget for Orissa
and receiving more than 80% of what was asked is something
to be happy about; at least for me. (But as you rightly said, we are still
not getting
an equitable share.) I am also happy that parts of Orissa are well
connected to rest of India. For example, once the proposals of this year are

done we will have direct trains connecting.

BBSR/KhurdaRd-Chennai: Better than Kolkata-Chennai (became better last year)
BBSR/Khurda Rd-Tirupati: Better than Kolkata-tirupati (became better last
year)
BBSR/ Khurda Rd-Hyderabad: Better than Kolkata-Hyderabad
BBSR-Bangalore: Better than Kolkata-Bangalore -- 2 years back no daily
connection,
(will be almost be doubly better later this
year)
BBSR-Pondicherry -- will be done this year
BBSR-Kerala
BBSR-Goa -- will be done this year
BBSR/KhurdaRd-Ahmedbad/Okha
BBSR-Mumbai -- *needs more frequency*
BBSR-Jaipur-Jodhpur -- was done last year to Jaipur
BBSR-Delhi (30 trains a week)
BBSR-Haridwar -- was done last year
BBSR-Raipur -- daily connection will start this year
BBSR-various points in the North (Allahbad, Kanpur, Adra, Gaya etc.)
BBSR-Patna
BBSR-Kolkata -- 4 daily direct trains, and many many other trains, but still
a lot of demand.
BBSR-Guwahati

5. After a long long time BBSR-Sambalpur got properly connected in 1998-99.

By the next budget we will have 4 daily trains between BBSR-Sambalpur
(2 day trains, Puri-Hatia, Raipur-BBSR; plus Vijag-Amritsar,
BBSR-Mumbai,
Puri-Ahmedabad)

In 2005-06 BBSR Baripada got properly connected, and now there is a new
BBSR-Baripada triweekly train. (I am sure if there is passenger demand
for it, it will become daily.)

In 2006-07 BBSR-Keonjhar-Rajkharswan (between Tata and Rourkela) will get
done.

I hope this trend continues and in each of the future budgets at least 1
or 2 of the
lines get a good allotment so that every 3-4 years one of the lines
get finished,
amd various parts of Orissa get better connected.

(Some details on this are at http://www.orissalinks.com/#railways )

Besides the one needed for industries and ports (such as
Haridaspur-Paradeep; Anugul-Sukinda)
which can be funded from other sources, I am looking foward to the
completion of:

Talcher-Bimlagarh-Rourkela, (727 crore estimated budget)
http://eastcoastrailway.gov.in/index.php?pageid=107

Rupsa-Baripada-Buramara- (Bangiriposi)-Chakulia-Tata

KhurdaRd-Phulbani-Balangir (700 crore estimated budget)
http://eastcoastrailway.gov.in/index.php?pageid=44

Nuapada-Parlakimidi-Gunupur-Theruvalli (89 crore plus Gunupur-Theruvali)
http://eastcoastrailway.gov.in/index.php?pageid=61

Junagarh-Bhawanipatna-Lanjigarh Rd (67 crore)
http://eastcoastrailway.gov.in/index.php?pageid=46

Orissa govt should do its best to have all these complete in the next 10
years.
I think with 250-300 crore per year on the above, all of the above can be
done in 10 years and that
is a reasonable expectation if one were to extrapolate from this year,
as this year the allocation is a total of *321 crores* on new lines: Rs 19
crore for the Lanjigarha Rd - Bhawanipatna - Junagarh, Rs 23 crore for the
Khurda Rd- Balangir, Rs 155.58 crore Daitari-Keonjhar-Banspani, Rs 44 crore
for Haridaspur-Paradip, Rs 20 crore for Angul-Duburi-Sukinda Road, and Rs 10
crore for Talcher-Bimalgarh. Rs 15.89 crore has been sanctioned for gauge
conversion of Rupsa-Bangiriposi (Simlipal), Rs 34 crore for gauge conversion
of Nuapada-Parlakimidi-Gunpur project.

>From the maps at http://irfca.org/faq/faq-map-09.html
and http://irfca.org/faq/faq-map-10.html
and one will notice that the completion of the above (which the above rough
calculation
shows *is doable in 10 years*) will result in FIVE cross connections between
the east line
(Jaleswar-Rupsa-Baleswar-Bhadrakh-Jakhapura-Cuttack-Barang-BBSR-Berhempur-Nuapada-Vizag)

and the west line
(Tata-Rajkharswan-Chakradharpur-Rourkela-Jharsuguda-Sambalpur-Baragarh
Rd-Balangir-Titlagarh).

Those cross connections would be:

(i) Nuapada-Parkakimidi-Gunupur-Theruvali-Titlagarh
(ii) Khurda Rd-Phulbani-Balangir
(iii) Barang-Talcher-Anugul-Sambalpur
(iv) Jakhapura-Daitari-Keonjhar-Bansapani-Rajkharswan
(v) Rupsa-Baripada-Tata

This is besides the two north and south connections of Kharagpur-Tata and
Vijainagaram-Titlagarh.

This will really bring different parts of Orissa closer together, and
I am excited about that prospect. More on all this at the orissalinks.com
site I mentioned earlier.

Suresh Behera

Vishnu carved at Orissa: The hidden Vishnu

Link: Churning of the Ocean of Milk..

Vishnu carved on low rock croppings on the banks of the Brahmani River, Sarang Orissa. Notice the crossing of legs, like Vishnu carved on the ceiling in Aihole. Approximately 13 meters, c.8th century.

Close up of face

Wildlife of Orissa

Link: Vision for the Future :: Wildlife of Orissa.

Wildlife Guide

Tigers : Orissa
Sunabeda Wildlife Sanctuary : Orissa
Chilika ( Nalaban) Wildlife Sanctuary : Orissa
Nandanakakan Wildlife Sanctuary: Orissa
Satkosia Gorge Wildlife Sanctuary : Orissa
Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary : Orissa
Wildlife Sanctuary : Orissa
Cormorants : Orissa
Egret : Orissa
Crocodile : Orissa

Nice resource from wildlife in orissa

Vision for the Future :: Wildlife of Orissa

Link: Vision for the Future :: Wildlife of Orissa.

The vision is to create a proper space for wildlife in the overall scheme of things within the civil society and governance of the State - a space that would be suffused by our traditional values of care, concern and compassion for wildlife.
The two basic objectives are to reverse the trend of habitat fragmentation and loss, and to generate stake-holding and participation of the local populace and various sections of society in the programmes of wildlife conservation.

The elements of vision are as follows:

1. 10% of the geographical area of the State brought under the Protected Area (PA) network comprising of sanctuaries, national parks, conservation reserves and community reserves, (in place of the present 4.2%). Representative and critical habitats, species and genetic biodiversity secured within the PA network. Each forest/wildlife division in the State has at least one PA.

2. 25% forest area of the State which qualifies as prime elephant habitat within the Eastern Indian Elephant Range managed as Elephant Reserves, and 10% forest area which is prime tiger habitat managed as Tiger Reserves. 3/4ths of the Tigers and 90% of the Elephants are within the Tiger Reserves/Elephant Reserves.

3. Each PA has a duly approved Management Plan which is faithfully implemented. A key element in any Management Plan is a strong incentive for participation of the people of the locality in protection of wildlife and its habitat. Enough livelihood opportunities created by PA management through enhancing eco-tourism and through eco-development measures.

4. Each PA has digitised geo-referenced maps in the GIS format, with capacity to continually update the maps to depict ground truth.

5. Biodiversity conservation taken up at landscape level in a mosaic of forests, agriculture fields, wetlands, coastal zones instead of being confined to PAs only. Long term ecological monitoring grounded for all areas of the State so that genetic variations are identified and conserved, known species thrive, no further species reach threatened list, and those in the list bounce back.

6. A vibrant and vigorous action research wing nurtured within the wildlife organisation. Adaptive management practice extensively informed by research carried out here and elsewhere.