Bhubaneswar, May 19 -- Soon, Palua Ladu, a sweet delicacy, will be served as a refreshment at various official meetings in Odisha's Bhadrak district.

Bhadrak Collector Dilip Routrai today asked the officials concerned, the Additional District Magistrate (ADM), Chief Development Officer (CDO), Sub-Collector and all Tahasildars and BDOs, to include Palua Ladu in refreshment packets being served among the participants at the district-level meetings.

"The district administration is in the process of obtaining GI tag for Palua Ladu, a sweet delicacy unique to Bhadrak. It would be in the fitness of things if you could include a piece of Palua Ladu in each refreshment packets being served to the participants in various district-level meetings ...