Puri offering new water sports activities for tourists in 2016

Tourists who plan to visit Puri will soon be able to enjoy a range of water sports activities that will be introduced in the holy town from next month. This will be done by entrepreneur Kamal Dey. He will throw open his water sports center along Puri and Chandrabhaga beach by the end of January.
The center will offer adventure sports like jet skiing, snorkeling and parasailing and tourists will also be able to take a hovercraft ride along the 33-Km coastline from Ramachandi to Puri.
This has been reported in telegraphindia.com dated 21 December 2015.

The center is the Sai Sagar Adventures and it would run the hovercraft service with highest-quality of maritime and water sports equipment namely. Pacific Explorer hovercraft. It will be an air-conditioned cruise experience with only eight passengers, including the driver. They can travel from Puri up to Ramachandi and return in 90 minutes - the hovercraft will run at a speed of about 60-Km per hour.
Entrepreneur Kamal Dey has been operating similar activities in Goa and Jammu for the past six years.

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After yoga, central government promotes outdoor sports like jungle safari, rafting

After yoga, the central government is keen to inculcate the habit of healthy living among its employees. Therefore, it is now promoting outdoor activities among its employees. These outdoor activities include trekking, mountaineering, rock-climbing, cycling in a difficult terrain, skiing, surfing, boat sailing, snorkeling, rafting, parasailing ballooning, paragliding, jungle safari, desert safari, beach trekking and environmental awareness camps.
This has been reported in ibnlive.com date 4 October 2015.

There are about 50 lakh central government employees and the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) will be making available financial assistance of up to Rs 20,000 and special casual leave to the employees so that they can participate in such activities.
Six institutes have been approved for this purpose by the government. These are – 1 Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports, Manali, Himachal Pradesh. 2 Indian Institute of Skiing and Mountaineering, Gulmarg, Jammu and Kashmir 3 National Institute of Water Sports, Vasco da Gama, Goa 4 Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand 5 Swami Vivekanand Institute of Mountaineering, Mount Abu, Rajasthan 6 Garhwal Mandal Vikas Nigam Ltd, Dehradun, Uttarakhand

Moreover, a decision has also been taken to open gyms at workplaces – these would help the employees increase their productivity and lead to "decreased absenteeism and reduced usage of sick leave".
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