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[edit] Edits by 221.134.26.35

This person had added to the section on education:

"The New Life Education Trust with its headquarters located at Matrubhaban[1], Sri Aurobindo Marg, Cuttack, oversees a chain of 429 Sri Aurobindo Integral Education Centres in the state. Most of these secondary schools are in rural areas set up with local initiative. Babaji Sri Ramakrishna Das and Prapatti, Kangali Charan Pati were the dominant inspiration. "

We are not talking about religious jumbo-mumbo but genuine centers of higher learning such as universities. To go to the extent of adding an entire paragraph on some obscure "New Life Education Trust" is beyond ridiculous!

SDas 17:02, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notable Schools

Ths list is getting ridiculous. What makes one school "notable" and another not? The absence of any criteria will cause the list to grow and grow. I suggest that that section be deleted.

SDas 07:31, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edits by Visnu

I had to modify Visnu's edits. The word "scheduled tribes" has been replaced with an internationally recognizable word "indigenous people", as well as the local/historical word for it ("Adivasi") which has the same meaning. Please refrain from using words that are intelligible to those aware of Indian constitutional jargon only. Besides, the word "tribe" has a negative connotation in international circles.

Furthermore, the laments about environmental degradation have been toned down a little bit. While environmental concerns are good, it is good to present both sides of the state's industrialization and to follow a manner similar to what the mainstream media usually reports!

68.102.214.231 05:34, 28 July 2006 (UTC)SD

[edit] Previous edits

The "Hi-Tec" medical school was highlighted for advertisement only. I removed that. Please refrain from highlighting some items just for promoting your own institution.

I did some major changes. There were numerous typographic errors and portions of the article were written in terrible English. The reference to "Lord" Jagganatha obviously written by a devotee was inappropriate for a non-religious encyclopedia.

I'm doing a little cleaning up in this article. I've removed some random links to various corporations; they don't tell much about the state. I also removed this section:

Maa Charchika's Mandir is situated on Ruchika parbat near the Renuka river.

It is considered as one of the most beautiful places of Orissa, where religion and nature intermix with each. It is situated in a place called Banki which is 52KMs away from Orissa's business capital Cuttack and 60 km from political capital Bhubaneswar. Another important picnic spot is Sunadei temple on the bank of river Mahanadi. During winter season many migratory birds visit mahanadi - which is in its largest width near the Sunadei Temple.

I can't find any mention of this online except in Wikipedia mirrors; a couple of detailed travel guidebooks don't mention it either. If it is indeed notable, maybe it's better in a separate article. CDC (talk) 04:08, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

There are so many important people in a state like Orissa - living or dead. The list should be commensurate and proportionate. Who can sit Ramchandra Rath in the class with others listed. Though Mr Rath was known during his youth days. Similarly in the class of colleges SCS college was added. sum

[edit] Edits by 61.246.47.201 (talk) (contributions)

His/her only edits (other than some clear vandalism of Open Directory Project) are to this category and cities therein (Puri and Bhubaneswar)), adding references to a specific web site. I don't know enough about the area to tell if they're also vandalism. Arthur Rubin | (talk) 15:22, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] orrisa in native script

can someone add the state name in the oriya script?

Pizzadeliveryboy 14:42, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Orissadiary and other linkfarmage

Please do not use wikipedia as a linkfarm, e.g. to orissadiary.com. --Improv 21:17, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I would hate to need to do so, but I am considering semi-protecting this page for a time to see if I can get the linkfarmers to go away. Does anyone have thoughts on this? They seem completely unwilling/unable to leave comments or discuss their edits. --Improv 18:00, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

I have semiprotected the page for 48 hours. --Improv 06:36, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Lifted. --Improv 14:51, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rourkela Steel Plant

Can somebody add information about Rourkela Steel Plant to this article? It is quite famous in India, so the state in which it is in should have some information about it. —vedant (talk • contribs) 09:30, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Implications of "still spoken" (re indigenous languages)

I'm wondering what the implications (intended or not) are of saying that languages are "still spoken" by a people. This turn of phrase seems either to carry an expectation that the state of affairs described is or should be impermanent, or to describe a situation where one might have expected otherwise (e.g., when an effort is made to wipe out a language but it is still spoken anyway). This is only to suggest that in most general contexts it is not necessary to say "still" spoken. So, in the Culture section a sentence where this was used might be revised thus: "A few tribal languages belonging to the Dravidian and Munda language families are ~~still~~ spoken by the Adivasis (original inhabitants) of the state." Or else the context could be explained more fully (such as popular culture, government and education emphasizing majority languages, etc.?) --A12n 00:24, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

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