itda park

A 38-year-old police constable, who went missing a week ago, was found dead on Saturday under suspicious circumstances near the itda park at Thotapalle under Garugubilli mandal in Vizianagaram district.

Cleaning operations at Lammasingi commenced on Monday following a report by TOI on November 29 citing the lack of a proper garbage disposal mechanism. TOI had also spoken to the project officer of Paderu Integrated Tribal Development Authority (ITDA) Dr Venkateswar Salijamala who had assured an immediate response.

Internet-beaming balloons will soon provide free Wi-Fi to remote villages in Uttarakhand. To provide internet access to rural areas, the hill state will use tethered aerostats.

In peak winter, tourists throng Daringibadi, the picturesque hill town of Kandhamal district, to witness snow flakes as the place is aptly called the Kashmir of Odisha.

The hill town of Daringbadi will add another destination to its list of tourist interests.It will throw open for public a tribal museum, built on 1100 sq ft area, at the end of August.

The Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA) and local administration have decided to impose a ban on plastic in ecologically sensitive Lammasingi and gradually work towards making it a plastic-free zone in the district.

The tribal freedom fighters museum set to come up in Tajangi near Lambasingi is yet to take shape. After a tedious process of land identification for the proposed park-museum, 22 acres of suitable land has finally been identified.

A tribal food park will be set up in north-coastal Andhra Pradesh this financial year under Trifood Projects of Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation. Initially, the food park will focus on setting up a cashew processing unit at Rampachodavaram in East Godavari district and a coffee curing centre at Narsipatnam in Visakhapatnam.

The Andhra Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation will soon announce special packages for tourists visiting Visakhapatnam district, said collector Dr N Yuvaraj.

The Visakhapatnam Urban Development Authority (Vuda) has been selected for the state annual Tourism Excellence Awards for 2015-16 in the best civic management of a tourist destination category.

Even as AP Tourism Development Corporation is busy hatching big plans of transforming Paderu and Lambasingi into major tourism hubs, it seems to have forgotten that the tourist attractions at Araku Valley, one of the state’s most sought-after travel destinations, are languishing in a state of utter neglect.