{"id":3418,"date":"2010-03-26T22:20:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T02:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=3418"},"modified":"2010-03-26T22:21:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T02:21:50","slug":"tourism-initiatives-developing-digha-talsari-international-convention-center-in-bhubaneswar-and-hotel-management-institutes-in-balangir-and-rourkela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/3418","title":{"rendered":"Tourism initiatives: Developing Digha-Talsari, International Convention center in Bhubaneswar, and Hotel management institutes in Balangir and Rourkela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following are excerpts from <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/india\/news\/state-urges-centre-to-develop-digha-talsari-tourism-circuit\/389855\/\">a report in Business Standard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Orissa government has urged the Centre to develop Digha-Talsari  tourism circuit to attract more tourists to these locations. It is  proposed to be developed in public-private-partnership (PPP) mode.<\/p>\n<p>Since the state government has already identified 700 acres of land  for the project, the state has urged the Union ministry of tourism to  initiate measure for the development of this circuit.<\/p>\n<p>It figured in the discussion of the chief minister Naveen Patnaik  with the visiting Union minister of state for tourism, Sultan Ahmad in  the state secretariat today.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmad is reported to have agreed to provide Central support for the  international convention centre being planned in Bhubaneswar.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The chief minister has proposed the setting up an international  convention centre to attract tourists to Orissa. We will consider the  proposal&rdquo;, Ahmad told the media after meeting Patnaik.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; On the extension of the &lsquo;Maharaja Express Classical India&rsquo; train to  Bhubaneswar, the minister said, the ministry would consider and hold  discussion on it after the state government sends its proposal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&nbsp; Since  the existing packaging of the train is for 12 days and 11 nights, it  can come from Delhi via Bodhgaya-Kolkata to Bhubaneswar by extending the  package to 12 days and 12 nights.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the state government has sought the conversion of the  status of Food Craft Institute at Bolangir into an Indian Institute of <strike> Health<\/strike> Hotel Management (IIHM). The state government would provide additional  land for it. Besides, the government has also urged the Centre to set up  a IIHM at Rourkela, Mishra added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following are excerpts from a report in Business Standard. The Orissa government has urged the Centre to develop Digha-Talsari tourism circuit to attract more tourists to these locations. It is proposed to be developed in public-private-partnership (PPP) mode. Since the state government has already identified 700 acres of land for the project, the state has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12,48,609,218,7,105,388,364,21,642,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-district-balangir","category-district-balasore","category-bhubaneswar-cuttack-puri","category-business-standard","category-center-orissa","category-district-khordha","category-orissa-and-center","category-orissa-govt-action","category-ministers","category-district-sundergarh","category-talasari","category-vocational-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418","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=3418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}