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Business standard reports that Kingfisher airlines (schedule) will now fly twice daily between Bhubaneswar and Kolkata. Until recently Kingfisher only flew BBSR-Hyderabad direct and BBSR-Delhi with a stop in Hyderabad. With this addition there will be five daily flights between BBSR and Kolkata (1 Indian, 2 Air Deccan and 2 Kingfisher). Both Air Deccan and Kingfisher flights are scheduled such that one can go from BBSR to Kolkata or Kolkata to BBSR and do business and return the same day.

[Thanks to Deba Nayak in ornet for the tip on the above.]

As per the May 2007 schedule Air Sahara, which has been bought by Jet Airways, ceases to fly between Bhubaneswar and Hyderabad. It will now only fly between Bhubaneswar and Delhi. Thus the number of daily flight connections between BBSR and Hyderabad reduces to 2 (Kingfisher and Air Deccan).

Telegraph reports that the Orissa government under the able guidance of the Veternary director Bishnupada Sethi has introduced several schemes for the growth of poultry farming. Following are some snippets from that article.

“… Value added tax (VAT) charged on maize and broken rice used for preparation of poultry feed would be reimbursed by the finance department. Similarly, the cooperation department has been asked to waive a per cent of the market tax levied on eggs, chicks and birds, brought to the regulated market committee yards,” said the Orissa veterinary director, Bishnupada Sethi, while talking to The Telegraph today.

Insurance premium for each poultry farm has, in the meanwhile, been revised from Rs 4 per layer bird to a meagre 30 paisa, the veterinary director added. Also, the Orissa electricity regulatory commission has been asked to reduce the tariff for poultry.

… The state’s production has increased from 12 lakh per day in 2005-06 to 32 lakh during 2006-07.

But still there seems to be a lacuna as the state’s present demand stands at 64 lakh eggs per day.”

Samaja reports that the government will help establish one chicken hatchery in each district and its aim will be to produce 1 crore eggs per day.

Following is a dated compilation of the infrastructure of the Balasore-Chandipur area.

Following is a dated compilation of the infrastructure of the Sambalpur-Burla-Baragarh-Chipilima cluster

Following is a dated compilation of the infrastructure of the Berhampur-Gopalpur-Chhatrapur cluster.

Following is a dated compilation of the infrastructure of the Rourkela metropolitan area.

Following is a dated compilation of infrastructure links about the Bhubaneswar metropolitan area.

Following is a collection of links about Orissa on-line media.

# Dharitri
# Sambada
# Pragativadi
# The Samaja (epaper)

Following is a collection of links on Oriya language resources.

Following is somewhat of a dated collection on investments and investment plans in Orissa.

Following is a collection of links on Ports and waterways in Orissa.

* Port locations: 13 new ones identified by IIT Madras

Following is a collection of links that I earlier compiled under the heading “Orissa mining and industries.”

Following are some links that I collected in my site “Fun/Culture/Shopping/Tourism in Orissa”.

In recent years there has been a big jump in the number of kilometers of national highways in Orissa. Following is copied from my page “Roads and Highways infrastructure in Orissa.”

As of today, Orissa has only one airport with commercial flights. That airport is in Bhubaneswar. Following is copied from my site “Orissalinks: Airports and air connectivity in Orissa.”

Most of Orissa’s rail network ( full-orissa-map, map-east-n- north-orissa, map-south-n-west-orissa) is part of the East Coast railway( map1, map2, time-table), and a small portion is part of the South eastern railway( map, plans) of Indian Railways. For trains across India see the Indian Railways Schedule, and for trains across Orissa see the ECOR schedule. Maps from IRFCA are here. India9.com has a list of stations and trains related to Orissa.

Rail network description:

* Howrah(0)… Kharagpur (116) … Lakshannath Rd (178)-Jaleswar (184)-Rajghat halt

Welcome to oDishA (or Orissa) infrastructure and Resource Development Blog. This blog will focus on issues and news related to Orissa’s infrastructure. In particular, it will focus on issues such as Railways, Roads, Airports, Ports, Waterways, Industries, Agriculture and Education. For the education aspects, we will often link to the companion blog orissawatch.org.