Within a short span of time, it activated three Covid Care Centres with combined bed strength of 1,078 including 117 with oxygen support and 12 with oxygen concentrators.
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SAMBALPUR/ROURKELA/BALANGIR: Shops, offices and business establishments remained closed while vehicular movement came to a grinding halt on the first day of the weekend shutdown imposed to break the chain of Covid cases across towns in 10 districts near Chhattisgarh on Saturday.
Two major cities of Sambalpur and Rourkela were among those shut as only people associated with essential and emergency services were allowed to move on the roads in Sundargarh, Jharsuguda, Sambalpur, Bargarh, Balangir, Nuapada, Kalahandi, Nabarangpur, Koraput and Malkangiri districts.
Massive police force was deployed in Sambalpur and Rourkela to enforce the shutdown. Police personnel were seen checking the pass and identity cards of people on the roads. Fearful of the rising infections, people voluntarily complied with the shutdown by staying indoors. “This was sorely needed,” said Sanjeeb Mishra, a doctor at VSS Institute of Medical Sciences, Sambalpur.
Sundargarh’s body count spikes as second wave of COVID hits Odisha, 14 die in three days
They belonged to Civil Township, Balughat, Panposh, Chhend Colony and Naya Bazar of Rourkela besides Khatkurbahal of Kutra block.
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ROURKELA: Body count is spiking in Sundargarh which is one of the epicenters of the second wave of Covid in Odisha. As many as 14 Covid patients, who succumbed in the last three days, were cremated and buried on the day.
Though the administration maintained a stoic silence, cremation grounds are now seeing a rush. While 11 bodies were cremated at Vedvyas, three were buried at Khatkurbahal and elsewhere in Sundargarh district.
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NIT Rourkela Observes 72nd Republic Day & Inaugurates Its Diamond Jubilee Year
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January 26th, 2021 NIT Rourkela celebrated the occasion of
Republic Day with great pride and fervour. The institute also celebrated the inaugural ceremony of its Diamond Jubilee year on the same day. The event was bestowed by the presence of some esteemed personalities who joined through
virtual platforms due to the impediments posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
It has been 72 years since the day on which India s constitution came into being making it a
democratic, sovereign and republic nation. The world viewed the prospect of independent India as improbable. At the stroke of the midnight hour, columnists were penning down India’s uncertain future that a country so poor, so uneducated, so unprepared and so startlingly diverse would not sustain. Still, it did, and it would be an understatement to say that our country has made immense progress, overcoming various hurdles.