Orissa Travel Mart, to be held in August-September 2010

Orissa Tourism is planning to organize Orissa Travel Mart (OTM) this year. The proposed travel mart, according toorissa tourism maps 300x172 Orissa Travel Mart, to be held in August September 2010 Debi Prasad Mishra, Minister of Higher Education and Tourism, Government of Orissa, will be organised some time in August/September, this year.

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Olive Ridley Turtles at Rushikulya Beach in Orissa

For the 2010 nesting season, the first arribada took place in the Gahirmatha beach in the second week of February. This beach is a protected area under the Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary.

turtle Olive Ridley Turtles at Rushikulya Beach in Orissa
The second took place in Rushikulya between March 15 and the early hours of March 21.
This year there was a third mass nesting which began on the evening of March 20. It is estimated that around one lakh turtles nested along the Rushikulya coast between March 15 and 21. The Orissa Forest Department had made arrangements to ensure the safety of the nests, protecting them from predators by fencing the beach along the forest side of the beach and placing forest guards to deter predators during the night. The eggs are expected to hatch by the end of April, flooding the beach with baby turtles that will make their way to the sea.

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Importance of Eram in Basudevpur, in the tourism map of India

Eram also known as the `second Jalianawala Bagh’ where the British forces killed 28 persons on September 28, 1942 was also very important as the only woman martyr of the freedom movement in Orissa, Pari Bewa, also fell to the British bullets there.

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OTDC special tour package for Konark Festival 2009

Orissa Tourism Development Corporation (OTDC) has announced a special tour konark dance festival 300x225 OTDC special tour package for Konark Festival 2009package for those wish to visit the famous Konark Festival, which starts from December 1-5, 2009. Under the package, visitors will be taken from OTDC premises in Bhubaneswar/Puri every day to Konark by air-conditioned bus during the five-day long Festival.

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Aditya Birla Group to set up sea port at Chudamani in Bhadrak district

Orissa government has signed an MoU with Aditya Birla Group for setting upabg Aditya Birla Group to set up sea port at Chudamani in Bhadrak district of a 10 MTPA capacity sea port at an investment of Rs1500 crore.

The port to be established at Chudamani in Bhadrak district, would have 3 mtpa capacity in the phase-1, said ABG’s executive president Ravi Kastia.

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State Wetland Management Authority, Orissa

For sustainable management of all wetlands of Orissa, Orissa Government is Chilika 300x238 State Wetland Management Authority, Orissaconstituting a State Wetland Management Authority, a first of its kind in the country.

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