{"id":1042,"date":"2007-12-01T11:10:01","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T15:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2007-12-01T11:10:01","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T15:10:01","slug":"infrastructure-improvement-planned-at-konark-sun-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/1042","title":{"rendered":"Infrastructure improvement planned at Konark Sun Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following is an excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newindpress.com\/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEQ20071201001831&amp;Page=Q&amp;Headline=Sun+Temple+to+sport+a+new+look+soon&amp;Title=ORISSA&amp;Topic=0\">a report in New Indian Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe Tourism Department plans to make the place more vibrant and lively.<\/p>\n<p>\nTo begin with, it has already handed over a patch of land \ufffd measuring about 22 acres \ufffd adjoining the temple to Archaeological Survey of India for landscaping.<\/p>\n<p>\nWork has already begun on the project. The Indian Cultural Trust Fund under Indian Oil Corporation has already committed Rs 22 crore for peripheral development.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Department is also planning to shift the approach road and widen it. Plans are afoot to redo several landmarks in the town.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8230; ASI has also been requested to reopen its museum during the Konark Dance Festival starting Saturday and keep it open during the night.<\/p>\n<p>\nSimilarly, the Chandrabhaga beach is being made more attractive with the establishment of an eco camp.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt would house 20 luxury camps. The State Government would fund Rs 5 crore for the venture and development of the beach.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe four-day festival, would see a number of eminent artistes from Orissa and outside perform. They include Madhavi Mudgal and her troupe from New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8230; over the years there has been a steady rise in the number of tourists visiting Konark to exclusively witness the festival.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn 2006, as many as 8,090 domestic and 473 foreign tourists attended it. In 2005, about 7,860 domestic and 452 foreign tourists had witnessed the festival.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following is an excerpt from a report in New Indian Express. The Tourism Department plans to make the place more vibrant and lively. To begin with, it has already handed over a patch of land \ufffd measuring about 22 acres \ufffd adjoining the temple to Archaeological Survey of India for landscaping. Work has already begun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-konark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","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=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}