Navaratra Puja at famous Bhairavi Temple near Berhampur city

Delayed Barracks stadium at Berhampur may finally see the light of the day

The Berhampur Stadium, hanging fire for 25 years, is likely to overcome land constraints and get completed soon, official sources said on Wednesday, following a meeting in this regard.

When the stadium is completed, it would be fit to host national and international sports competitions. According to the blueprint, the stadium will house a swimming pool, a gymnasium, hostels and two galleries. At present, the stadium has an athletics track, a cricket field, a football ground and a basketball court besides a sports hostel. In 1989, then chief minister J B Patnaik inaugurated the 'incomplete' stadium.

To make its infrastructure ready, the state government has to take over land, earmarked for the stadium, but under the possession of ministry of defence (MoD). Around 17.68 acre near Old Bus Stand identified for the stadium, 9.18 acre is with MoD, official sources said.

At least four quarters of NCC officers are located in the defence area. "We have decided to construct NCC officers' quarters at a distance with all infrastructure facilities. It will facilitate completion of the stadium," said MLA (Berhampur) R C Chyaupatnaik. The state government would bear all expenses, he said.

Sports secretary Saswat Mishra, collector (Ganjam) Prem Chand Chaudhary, district sports officer A K Patnaik, NCC group commander S Bhattacharya and engineers of public works department (PWD) attended the meeting. The sports secretary asked the PWD engineers to prepare a detailed project report for construction of NCC officers' quarters and completion of the stadium.

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Historic Civil & Sessions Court, Berhampur

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Vaishno Devi Temple near Berhampur city

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Center agrees to a second market terminal in Ganjam (Odisha)

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3 alternative locations for proposed Odisha IIM in Berhampur selected by Dist administration

Three alternative locations for proposed Odisha IIM in Berhampur city selected by the Dist administration. The sites are located near Gopalpur-on-Sea and Chilika lake by the side of NH-5 and Kolkata-Chennai railway line. Sitalapalli is the location where the proposed airport (Laxmipur) of Berhampur city has been planned under the new CDP. Korapalli is near Berhampur University while Khallikote is about 60 kms from Berhampur and 100 kms from BBSR by the side of Chilika lake.

Last huddle for the establishment of IIM at Berhampur cleared; LOW-COST AIRPORT WILL COME UP SOON IN BRAHMAPUR

POLICY SOON ON BUILDING LOW-COST AIRPORTS IN 50 NON-METRO CITIES

New Delhi | Having identified 50 non-metro cities and remote locations across the country for building low-cost airports, the Centre is shortly coming up with a policy on the matter in which state governments would have a major role to play.

The Civil Aviation Ministry would soon finalise names of the first five of these 50 no-frill airports to be taken up first, official sources said here on Friday.The policy, which is being given final shape by the Ministry, is likely to put the onus of providing land, water and electricity free of charge to these airports on State Governments, which would also have to grant tax concessions or exemptions for these projects.

It comes in the wake of the BJP-led Government’s announcements that these airports would be built on a private -public partnership (PPP) model to provide air connectivity to non-metro cities and those in remote areas.

Apart from the facilities to be granted by State Governments to these airports, the Government would grant concessions to airlines operating there, such as exemption from paying landing, parking, navigation, night parking and fuel throughput charges, among other things.In June last year, the UPA-II Government, while finalising infrastructure projects for 2013-14, had also decided to build low-cost airports at 51 cities and towns across the country.

Under the decision taken by the Manmohan Singh government, State-owned Airports Authority of India (AAI) was to have set up these airports at towns and cities spread across Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan and Maharashtra.

There are over 125 functional airports and another 400 airstrips, of which many can be developed as full-fledged airports, the sources said.However, official data shows that of these 125-odd functional airports, 93 were loss-making and only ten profitable. The loss-making airports are mostly located in Tier-II cities, apart from some state capitals. Connectivity by low-cost airlines to the smaller towns and cities could beef up the financial fortunes of these small airports, the sources said.

Observing that growth in traffic was concentrated on certain major routes and not all across the country, they said though air tickets were now available at competitive rates due to fierce competition among airlines and air traffic was growing at a rapid pace, almost 70 per cent of the population does not have air connectivity and many cannot afford to fly.

The policy would aim at making air connectivity available at a cheaper rate, the officials said.On the names of the 50 proposed no-frill airports, they said the list was likely to remain the same as decided by the previous Government, barring a few changes in some states.

As per the UPA-II Government’s decision last year, the 51 low-cost airports were to have come up at Vijayawada, Nellore, Kurnool, Kadapa, Nizamabad, Tirupati, Anantapur and Karimnagar in Andhra Pradesh, Dhanbad, Bokaro and Hazaribagh in Jharkhand, at Muzaffarpur, Chapra and Sasaram in Bihar, at Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Firozpur in Punjab, at Agra, Allahabad, Moradabad, Saharanpur, Meerut, Aligarh, Bijnor, Muzaffarnagar and Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh.

Tezu, Bomdila and Along in Arunachal Pradesh, at Silchar, Jorhat and Tezpur in Assam, at Gwalior, Singrauli, Burhanpur, Khandwa, Jabalpur, Sidhi and Shahdol in Madhya Pradesh, Brahmapur (Odisha), Rourkela and Kendujhar in Odisha, at Ajmer, Kota, Bhilwada and Alwar in Rajasthan and at Kolhapur, Nasik, Jalgaon, Solapur and Amarawati in Maharashtra were also to have low-cost airports.

Source: The Pioneer| Saturday, 06 September 2014

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Policy on building low-cost airports expected soon

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IIM likely to come up near Berhampur city in Odisha

Ganjam collector asked to locate 200 acres of land for establishment of proposed IIM near Berhampur city in Odisha

It seems the State Government is considering the proposal to set up Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Berhampur city of Ganjam. So as a prelude to it, the State Government’s Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (IDCO) asked today the Ganjam district Collector to identify 200 acre of land in the district. “You are requested to identify a patch of land measuring 200 acre and submit the details of such land with land schedule and map to IDCO for taking further action,” IDCO CMD Vishal Kumar Dev wrote to Ganjam Collector Prem Chandra Chaudhary. Notably, people from cross sections of society in Ganjam district have been continuously agitating in the district demanding establishment of the proposed IIM in the area. A team led by Berhampur MLA Ramesh Chandra Chyau Patnaik had also met Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik regarding the issue. SOSA was also demanding for IIM at Berhampur, which has the all facilities for setting up of an IIM. While various leading educational institutions like IIT, NIFT, NISER and others have come up in Bhubaneswar, other parts of the state has not been considered for setting up of such institutions. Now the State Government will pose at least two or three places suitable for IIM and Central Team will decide the place for IIM.

Source: Tathya.in, Business Standard & Pragativadi

IIM at Berhampur is a historic necessity

Lord Ganesh made using different vegetables in Paralakhemundi

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Development projects for Berhampur city only on pen and paper

Blackbucks of Ganjam; the harbinger of prosperity

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