Bhubaneswar, Sept. 15 -- https://images.odishatv.in/uploadimage/library/16_9/16_9_0/Image_1757938003.webp
For five years, I travelled to/ from on the Cuttack- Paradip highway with the Taladanda canal on one side. The road felt no different from a canal embankment road, and I always felt that a moment of unmindful driving would take the car into the canal, as there was no physical barrier between the road and the canal. The road was never in sync with an international gateway at Paradip. Some years after I left Paradip in 1991, the highway was upgraded at considerable cost, but its vulnerability to the canal remained.
The other access to/from Paradip was through the Daitari- Paradip Expressway that the visionary Biju Patnaik built, and exp...