Odisha has done extremely well in the 2023-24 Rail budget.

The Pink books can be accessed at: 
https://indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboa...6,539,2848
and 
https://indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboa...2023-02-03

The specific pink books relevant to Odisha are at:

https://indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboa...1_ECOR.pdf

https://indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboa...08_SER.pdf

and

https://indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboa...4_SECR.pdf

Vikram Dev College (https://www.vikramdebcollege.ac.in/) was declared a university on 2nd February 2023. See news item on this at http://www.uniindia.com/odisha-bikram-de...08995.html .

Following are some highlights that are relevant to Odisha:

Quote:27. One hundred and fifty-seven new nursing colleges will be
established in co-location with the existing 157 medical colleges established
since 2014.

33. A National Digital Library for children and adolescents will be set-up
for facilitating availability of quality books across geographies, languages,
genres and levels, and device agnostic accessibility. States will be
encouraged to set up physical libraries for them at panchayat and ward
levels and provide infrastructure for accessing the National Digital Library
resources.

Centres of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence
60. For realizing the vision of “Make AI in India and Make AI work for
India”, three centres of excellence for Artificial Intelligence will be set-up in
top educational institutions. Leading industry players will partner in
conducting interdisciplinary research, develop cutting-edge applications and
scalable problem solutions in the areas of agriculture, health, and
sustainable cities. This will galvanize an effective AI ecosystem and nurture
quality human resources in the field.

90. Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana 4.0 will be launched to skill
lakhs of youth within the next three years. On-job training, industry
partnership, and alignment of courses with needs of industry will be
emphasized. The scheme will also cover new age courses for Industry 4.0
like coding, AI, robotics, mechatronics, IOT, 3D printing, drones, and soft
skills. To skill youth for international opportunities, 30 Skill India
International Centres will be set up across different States.

Unity Mall
95. States will be encouraged to set up a Unity Mall in their state capital
or most prominent tourism centre or the financial capital for promotion and
sale of their own ODOPs (one district, one product), GI products and other
handicraft products, and for providing space for such products of all other
States.

Following is an excerpt from https://kalingatv.com/state/inauguration...s-academy/

Quote:Inauguration ceremony of KIIT – Alexander Waske – Altevol Tennis Academy

The Inauguration ceremony of the KIIT - Alexander Waske - Altevol Tennis Academy has been held at KIIT Tennis Stadium.

...
This new institute will build a bridge between KIIT University, Altevol Ahmedabad and Alexander Waske Tennis University in Germany in order to help tennis talents do well in national and international tournaments from Odisha.

As per https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city...337148.cms 
Institute of Odia Studies and Research (IOSR) is bringing out +2 science books in Odia. Subrat Prusty is the member secretary of IOSR.

Details at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100086777243847 .

These are conducted by Jitu Mishra a historian and archaeologist.

Details at https://www.ekamra-walks.com/ 

Currently they have: Nature Trails; Food Trails and Museum Trails

Yesterday two new routes (41 and 42) were announced to be operational from 24th Jan 2023: https://twitter.com/CRUT_BBSR/status/161...3090333698

See details of all routes at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...sp=sharing .

Route 41 is between Baramunda ISBT and DRIEMS Tangi. This is the first bus that connects DRIEMS Tangi (Kapilas Road). 
The bus from Baramunda end takes the NH all the way till Link Road then it goes to Badambadi, turns around and goes back to Link road and then proceeds to Tangi on the NH.

Route 41 is between Baramunda ISBT and Nandankanan. This is the first bus that takes the Chandaka - Khandagiri road btween Chandaka and Kalinga studio chhack. From the Nadankanan end it first goes towards Cuttack and then takes the Nandankanan backside road to Daruthenga then on to Chandaka and then to Mathematics Institute and then to Kalinga studio chhack. From there it goes East to Jagannath Vihar and then South to Fire station square on the NH and then to Baramunda ISBT via the NH.

Due to the addition of Route 41 and 42, the overall schedules is slightly revised and the revised scheduled from 24th January 2023 was posted in the social media, such as https://twitter.com/CRUT_BBSR/status/161...8064999424 .

Since the above link from Samaja may vanish, following is a summary:

Quote:The East Coast Dedicated Freight Corridor was approved in 2019. It is 1115 kms between Kharagpur and Vijaywada. There will be nine new stations for this in Odisha. They are: New Armada Rd, New Balasore, New Bhadrak North, New Bhadrak South, New Jakhapura, New Haridaspur, New Rajathagarh, New Kuhudi, New Berhampur/Dayapalli. There was arial survey in Ganjam for this corridor.

Following is an excerpt from https://www.thehindu.com/business/coal-i...424476.ece .

Quote:Coal India arm MCL is in the process of diversifying into power generation and will set up a coal-based plant entailing an investment of about ₹12,000 crore in Odisha, its chairman-cum-managing director O. P. Singh said.

Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd. (MCL) also has plans to diversify into aluminium business.