The Union Minister of State for Health Ashwini Kumar Choubey has announced setting up of a medical college in the Dhenkanal parliamentary constituency. It's noteworthy to mention that Dhenkanal Lok Sabha constituency consists of 7 legislative assembly segments, namely, Dhenkanal, Parjanga, Kamakhyanagar, Hindlo, Angul, Talcher, and Pallahara. The minister has asked the state government to identify land for the purpose. This will be really a boost for the people of the area as their nearest Medical colleges are at ~ 200 KMs away in Sambalapur and Cuttack. Hope the proposal gets going before both, State and Central, governments demit office in May 2019.
Dhenkanal is about 100 KMs from state capital, Bhubaneswar. The cities are connected through 4-lane National Highways and all-weather road. There are 2 primary routes to reach Dhenkanal town from Bhubaneswar. The first one takes National Highway 16 (NH 16) from Bhubaneswar- Cuttack-Jagatpur-Manguli Chowk for a distance of ~ 60 KM. The stretch usually sees heavy truck traffic because of its prominence of NH 16 which connects two metropolitan cities Kolkata, Bengal with Chennai, Tamilnadu. At Manguli, it takes a left to NH 55 through Choudwar- Khuntuni to Dhenkanal. This passage with filled picturesque scene of trees, forests and mountains. Bus: Buses run between both cities round the clock. People traveling farther can take direct buses from Bhubaneswar to Angul, Talcher, Sambalpur, Rourkela, etc. The long distance buses (to Sambalpur, Rourkela, Jharsuguda) typically run in night time and start from 7:00 PM up to 10:00 PM. One traveling to Dhenkanal can get on the buses and ali...
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