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The Indian Forest Service ( IFS) is the premier forest service of India. [1] [2] [3] It was constituted in the year 1966 under the All India Services Act, 1951 . The service implements the National Forest Policy [4] in order to ensure the ecological stability of the country through the protection and participatory sustainable management of ...
Some of the trees which grow in abundance in Odisha are bamboo, teak, rosewood, sal, piasal, sanghvan and haldi. There are 479 species of birds, 86 species of mammals, 19 species of amphibians and 110 species of reptiles present in Odisha. The state is also an important habitat for the endangered olive ridley turtles and Irrawaddy dolphins.
Odisha (English: / ə ˈ d ɪ s ə /, Odia: ⓘ), formerly Orissa (/ ɒ ˈ r ɪ s ə, ɔː-, oʊ-/ the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India. It is the eighth-largest state by area , and the eleventh-largest by population , with over 41 million inhabitants.
The Orissa Tributary States, also known as the Garhjats [1] and as the Orissa Feudatory States, [2] were a group of princely states of British India now part of the present-day Indian state of Odisha . The Orissa Tributary States were located in the Garhjat Hills, the hilly and former heavily forested region of eastern Orissa, on the border ...
Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Sarang. / 20.93505; 85.26331. Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology (IGIT), Sarang was established in the year of 1982 and was managed directly by the Govt. of Odisha in the name of Odisha College of Engineering (OCE). Prior to this, since 1981, the institute in the name of Modern Polytechnic (MPT) was ...
Cyclone Fani. Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Fani ( / ˈfɒniː /) [a] was the worst tropical cyclone to strike the Indian state of Odisha since the 1999 Odisha cyclone. The second named storm and the first severe cyclonic storm of the 2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Fani originated from a tropical depression that formed west of ...
After the 1971 Odisha elections, UC won 33 seats and 23 percent of the vote. It was a partner in the Bishwanath Das-led coalition government. In 1974, the UC merged into Bharatiya Lok Dal. Odisha Gana Parishad (OGP)- A splinter group of the Biju Janata Dal, the party was founded on October 29, 2000, and led by Bijoy Mohapatra. In the 2004 ...
History of South Asia. The history of Odisha begins in the Lower Paleolithic era, as Acheulian tools dating to the period have been discovered in various places in the region. [1] The early history of Odisha can be traced back to writings found in ancient texts like the Mahabharata, Maha Govinda Sutta and some Puranas.