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Following is from a report in Odisha.in.

1st Day – 23.11.2007 (Friday)
Ø       Lighting the lamp at the lotus feet of “Sri Sri Jagannath Mahaprabhu” & declare the festival open – 5.30 p.m.

Ø       Veda Patha – by Students of Veda Karmakanda Vidyalaya,Puri

Ø       Sankh Dhwani – Subhashree Sankha Dhwani Kalakendra, Ganjam

Ø       Odissi Group Dance by Guru Naba Kishore Mishra & Troupe, Abartta, Bhubaneswar

Ø       Chadeiya Folk Dance – Subhashree Sankha Dhwani Kalakendra, Ganjam

Ø       Sambalpuri Dance – by Kala Vikas Kendra, Cuttack

Ø       Ranappa Folk Dance – Subhashree Sankha Dhwani Kalakendra, Ganjam

Ø       Chhow Dance by Mayur Art Centre, BBSR

Ø       Tribal Dance by Dist. Council , Boudh

Ø       Creative Dance Ballet by – Shri Krishna Cultural Academy, Puri

Ø       Inauguration by Shri Muralidhar Chandrakant Bhandare, His Excellency Governor of Orissa

Ø       Shri Maheswar Mohanty, Hon’ble Speaker OLA (Chief Guest)

Ø       Shri Deviprasad Mishra, Hon’ble Minister – Excise & Tourism (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri Debasis Nayak, Hon’ble Minister – I&PR & Sports & Y.S (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri Asit Tripathy, IAS, Commissioner-cum-Secy. Tourism (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri Gourahari Pradhan, Chairman Puri Municipality (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Dr. Mrs. Vaijanitmala Bali, Noted Actress (Guest of Honour)

2nd Day – 24.11.2007 (Saturday)
Dignitaries & Guests for the Evening
Ø       Odissi Dance Ballet – Kabita Dwibedi & Troupe, New Delhi

Ø       Kathak Dance Ballet – Keya Chand & Troupe, Kolkata

Ø       Folk & Creative Dances by Song & Drama Division, Kolkata

Ø       Sambalpuri Dance – Sanskrutika, Padmapur, Bargarh

Ø       Gotipua Dance by Konark Natya Manda

Ø       Danda Dance by Khedu Sahu & Troupe, Athamallik sponsored by Sankarcharya Pradhan, Angul

Ø       Creative Dances by Keya Chand & Group, Kolkata

Ø       Creative Dance Ballet – Swagatika Sanskrutika Sansad, BBSR
Ø       Sports Activities sponsored by Dept. of Sports & Youth Services, Govt. of Orissa

Ø       Country Boat Race among local Nolias(3.30pm), Flag off by Sri Pyari Mohan Mohapatra, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) & Sri Debashish Nayak, Minister, Sports & I&PR, Govt. of Orissa

Ø       Beach Volley ball -(Women) – 4pm & Beach Cricket (Girl) – 3.45pm

Special Attraction Para-Sailing (11.00 am to 5.00 pm).

MEGA NITE:
(Mrs. Hema Malini with Daughters Eesha & Ahana Deol)

Ø       Shri Pyari Mohan Mohapatra, Hon’ble Member Rajayasabha (Chief Guest)

Ø       Shri Prafulla Chandra Ghadei, Hon’ble Minister Finance (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Dr. Prasanna Patsani, Hon’ble MP- Loksabha (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri Tathagat Satpathy Hon’ble MP Loksabha (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri C R Pradhan, Chairman (NALCO) (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri Srimay Kar, Chief of Bureau – Indian Express (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri S C Patnaik, Secy, Sports – 3.30 pm & 6.00 pm (Guest of Honour)

3rd Day – 25.11.2007 (Sunday)

Ø       Odissi Dance Ballet  &  Braja Leela by Kunja Lata & Troupe, Venunad Kalakendra,Brundaban (U.P.)

Ø       Bharat Natyam group dance by – Kashmira Samanta & Group, Kolkata

Ø       Purulia Chhow, of West Bengal by EZCC, Kolkata,

Ø       Siddi Dhamal of Gujrat by WZCC, Udaipur

Ø       Bhangra Dance of Punjab by NZCC, Patiala

Ø       Folk & Creative Dances by – Song & Drama Division, Kolkata

Ø       Contemporary Dances by Kashmira Samanta & Group, Kolkata

Ø       Creative Dances by – Ritz & Amit Dance Academy, Angul

Ø       Sports Activities sponsored by Dept. of Sports & Youth Services, Govt. of Orissa

Ø       Women Beach Kabadi – 4pm. , Banati (Hoola) – 6pm.

Special Attraction Para-Sailing (11.00 am to 5.00 pm).
Ø       Shri Chandrasekhar Sahu, Hon’ble Union Minister of State – RD (Chief Guest)

Ø       Shri Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo, Hon’ble Minister UD&PE (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri Baijant Panda, Hon’ble MP – Rajyasabha (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri Gopal Chandra Nanda, IPS, DG Police (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri Padmanabha Behera, Hon’ble Minister, Steel & Mines (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri Ravi Narayan Nanda, Director, Tourism (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri L N Pattnaik, Chairman Pollution Control Board (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Head of ETV – Oriya, (Guest of Honour)

4th Day – 26.11.2007 (Monday)

Dignitaries & Guests for the Evening

Ø       Orissa Dance Ballet  – by Guru Gajendra Panda & Troupe, Tridhara, Bhubaneswar

Ø       “Breath of life” in Odissi Style by Guru Chita Ranjan Acharya & Troupe, Bhubaneswar

Ø       Purulia Chhow of West Bengal by EZCC, Kolkata,

Ø       Siddi Dhamal of Gujarat by WZCC, Udaipur

Ø       Bhangra Dance of Punjab by NZCC, Patiala
Ø       Sports Activities sponsored by Dept. of Sports & Youth Services, Govt. of Orissa

Ø       Wrestling – 4pm., Body Building – 6pm.

Special Attraction Para-Sailing (11.00 am to 5.00 pm).

MEGA MUMBAI NITE
Amit Paul & Ankita Mishra – Indian Idol (3)

Ø       Shri Surya Narayan Patra, Hon’ble Minister, Energy, IT & Culture (Chief Guest)

Ø       Shri Manmohan Samal, Hon’ble Minister, Revenue (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri Suresh Chandra Mohapatra, IAS, RDC Central Zone (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri Sanjay Pattnaik, Chief Resident Executive, TISCO (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Director – Door Darshan, Orissa (Guest of Honour)

CLOSING CEREMONY
5th Day – 27.11.2007 (Tuesday) Dignitaries & Guests for the Evening

Ø       Odissi Dance Ballet “Sarad Rasa” by – Leena Mohanty & Group, Banshi Bilasha , Bhubaneswar

Ø       Purulia Chhow, West Bengal by EZCC, Kolkata,

Ø       Siddi Dhamal of Gujarat by WZCC, Udaipur

Ø       Bhangra Dance of Punjab by NZCC, Patiala

Ø       Nritya Vahar – A Dhiman Sankar Ballet Presentation, Kolkata

Ø       Creative Dances – by Habiba Dance Group, BBSR, Direction by Sarat Malia

Ø       Sports Activities sponsored by Dept. of Sports & Youth Services, Govt. of Orissa

Ø       Mal Khamb – 5pm., Rugby (KIITS – 4pm.

Special Attraction Para-Sailing (11.00 am to 5.00 pm).

Ø       Shri Maheswar Mohanty, Hon’ble Speaker OLA (Chief Guest)

Ø       Shri Biswa Bhusan Harichandan, Hon’ble Minister RD, Law, Industries (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri Ajit Tripathy, IAS, Chief Secretary, Govt. of Orissa

Ø       Shri Rashmi Ranjan Pattnaik, Collector, Puri (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri Asit Panigrahi, SP, Puri (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri S R Upadhya, Chairman-cum-MD, MCL (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri Indrajeet Mohanty, Hon’ble Justice-Orissa High Court (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Smt. Jagi Mangat Panda, MD- Ortel Communication (Guest of Honour)

Ø       Shri Sanak Mishra, Chief of Mittal Steel India Chaptger, New Delhi (Guest of Honour)

N. B.

||  Exhibition timing from 11.00 am to 10.00 pm  ||

||  Cultural Programmes daily starts at 6.00 pm  ||

||  Sports items as per timing mentioned each day  ||

Following are excerpts from an Odisha.in report on this.

• Existing channels: OTV and ETV
• Manoj Dash group had issued notice in the newspapers announcing that they have purchased all the stakes of MD TV.
  According to sources, Dash would soon go ahead with completing the necessary formalities with different ministries to launch his channel.

  It is likely to be a news-cum-entertainment channel in Oriya. However the promoters have so far not finalized the shape of channel. However, it would have its studio and office at Alaka Buildings in Unit-II of Bhubaneswar, from where the programmes would be up linked to the satellite from the tele-port already installed over the building.

• Pravat Kumar Mallick, promoter of Bhubaneswar College of Engineering, and Kaustav group of technical institutes has also made some progress towards launching an Oriya satelite channel named as Naxatra TV.

  According to sources close to the promoter, the channel will be basically a news channel and would also promote awareness about technical education. As a prelude to launching of the channel, the group have already launched  English and Oriya news portal Naxatranews.com, with eminent scribe Ashok Mohapatra as its editor.

• …, the only media house which has made some progress in planning for launching an Oriya news channel is Soumya Ranjan Patnaik’s ” Sambad ” group.
  

  After unexpected success of  ” Radio Chocolate ” FM Channel,  dreamer Patnaik seems to  be determined to  launch ” Sambad TV ” an Oriya satellite news channel.

  Since Sambad group is a professional group in production of newspapers , the news regarding preparations for launching of Sambad TV is likely to inspire many young journalists in the State.

Following is an excerpt from a report in Pioneer.

Eleven writers will be conferred with the Rajdhani Book Fair Award-2007 at the eighth edition of the fair to begin at the Exhibition Ground here on December 1. The award will be presented to Oriya litterateurs in the field of novel, poetry, essay, short story, translation, play, religion, science, travelogue, satire and children’s literature, said organisers of the fair on Thursday. The book fair committee will also publish a 700-page catalogue on Oriya publications from 1804 to 2007, titled Oriya Pustak Prakashan Soochi, which will be sold at Rs 50. Like previous years, all informative books on Lord Jagannath will be available at the entrance. A host of publishers, distributors and booksellers from the State and outside are expected to participate in the 12-day event.

Following is an excerpt from a report in Pioneer.

The modernisation works of the Biju Patnaik Airport at Bhubaneswar will soon be completed. A new terminal will be set up to accommodate the rising air traffic. At one time, eight A-320 Airbuses can be parked in the airstrips. The terminal building is in the planning stage and will be given a formal shape soon, sources said. Rs 20 crore has been invested to give a new look to the airport.

Meanwhile, the runway of the Airport has been increased from 7,500 feet to 9,000 feet. The parking system of the airport will be increased two times of the existing capacity. It may be noted that the inflow of air passengers have been increased a number of times.