{"id":1029,"date":"2007-11-28T18:44:12","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T22:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2007-12-09T00:27:59","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T04:27:59","slug":"plans-for-an-aquarium-in-puri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/1029","title":{"rendered":"Plans for an aquarium in Puri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Update: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dharitri.com\/091207\/story23.asp\" target=\"_self\">As per Dharitri,<\/a> the current largest aquarium in the country is in Paradeep which is built in an area of 1.5 acres.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Following is an excerpt from a news item on this in the Statesman.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"story_text\">The holy city of Puri&nbsp;will soon have a modern sea-aquarium, with an approximate investment of Rs&nbsp;2 crore. <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"story_text\"><br \/>\nComplying with the request of the Speaker Mr Maheswar&nbsp;Mohanty,&nbsp;who happens to be the local MLA, chief minister Mr Naveen&nbsp;Patnaik&nbsp;has asked the tourism department to take necessary steps. It is said that the sea-aquarium is going to be the largest in the country. <br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"story_text\">Presiding over in a high-level meeting, which was attended by tourism minister Debi&nbsp;Prasad&nbsp;Mishra,&nbsp;tourism secretary Asit&nbsp;Tripathy,&nbsp;culture secretary Gopinath&nbsp;Mohanty,&nbsp;Paradip&nbsp;Port Trust (PPT)&nbsp;vice-chairman Subrat Tripathy&nbsp;and Puri&nbsp;collector Rashmi&nbsp;Ranjan&nbsp;Patnaik,&nbsp;Speaker Mr. Mohanty informed that the technical support for the project will be provided by PPT. This will be a major tourist attraction, he hoped.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: As per Dharitri, the current largest aquarium in the country is in Paradeep which is built in an area of 1.5 acres. &nbsp; Following is an excerpt from a news item on this in the Statesman. The holy city of Puri&nbsp;will soon have a modern sea-aquarium, with an approximate investment of Rs&nbsp;2 crore. Complying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[587,48,318],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aquarium","category-bhubaneswar-cuttack-puri","category-puri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}