{"id":100,"date":"2007-06-14T06:53:10","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T10:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissawatch.org\/Infra\/?p=100"},"modified":"2007-06-14T12:37:47","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T16:37:47","slug":"orissa-planning-a-palace-on-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/100","title":{"rendered":"Orissa planning a palace on wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindu.com\/2007\/06\/13\/stories\/2007061309150200.htm\">The Hindu <\/a>reports that Orissa is planning a palace on wheels similar to the concept of the one in Rajasthan. It will be the 3rd such state after Rajasthan and Haryana. I&#8217;m sure that Orissa has higher potential than these two states in terms of tourism. Following is an excerpt.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In an attempt to attract more tourists to the state, Orissa tourism has mooted to introduce luxury trains for travellers following Rajashtan&#8217;s much hyped palace-on-wheels model. If implemented, Orissa would be the third state in the country after Rajashtan and Haryana to be the proud provider of this service. <\/em><em>Sources in the Department of Tourism said talks were on with the Ministry of Railways for earliest launch of the service following which the Indian Tourism Finance Corporation has undertaken a survey to find the feasibility of the project.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The project proposal has already been endorsed to the Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) that has evinced keen interest in it, the sources added.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Collaborative project<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>While the Ministry would provide the luxury train, the Orissa Tourism Development Corporation (OTDC) would look after the hospitality expenses of travellers, the proposal says. It would be a collaborative project of the IRCTC and the OTDC, it was learnt.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The travel plan would extend over a minimum period of one week and a maximum period of a fortnight.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The train would commence its journey from Kolkata and would be back to its originating point via Balasore, Cuttack, Bhubaneswar, Puri, Berhampur, Koraput, Sambalpur and Rourkela, it was learnt.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hindu reports that Orissa is planning a palace on wheels similar to the concept of the one in Rajasthan. It will be the 3rd such state after Rajasthan and Haryana. I&#8217;m sure that Orissa has higher potential than these two states in terms of tourism. Following is an excerpt. In an attempt to attract [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orissa-culture","category-tourist-promotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}