He is scheduled to stay there for three days. He is likely to take up issue of repair of the Jagannath Temple at Puri with the ASI authorities and will meet Union Food Supplies Minister Shanta Kumar to discuss distress sale and procurement of rice by the Food Corporation of India.
Litterateurs are like family members.
They may have differences, but going to court and publishing discouraging articles over a small issue is very unfortunate,'' said noted writer Satakadi Hota, at a function here on Sunday. He was referring to the recent controversy over remarks by Jnanpith Award winner poet Sachi Routray on eminent writer Surendra Mohanty, in an interview recently. Noted social worker and entrepreneur Kshetramohan Biswal, father of former deputy chief minister of Orissa Basant Biswal, breathed his last here on Friday. He was 89. Born at Tirtol in 1912, Biswal was dedicated to the cause of the poor.