The difference was so stark as I took a train from Bhubaneswar and alighted at Balasore, from there on I chose to take the roadway to Baripada town, the only town and district headquarter of Mayurbhanj. This north eastern part of Orissa is starkly different from other parts of Orissa. As my association with Orissa is two decades old, mainly in coastal belt of Ganjam- Puri- Cuttack - Khurda, the western Orissa of Sambalpur- Bolangir.
Mayurbhanj being a land locked district shares the boundaries with Midnapore district of west Bengal in north, Singbhum district of Jharkhand in South, Balasore district in West and Keonjhar district in East.
I was surprised and also it struck me that development is yet to reach here in its full vigour. If Mayurbhanj district can boast of a town and a market place its only Baripada. Mayurbhanj has a tribal people dominated population with about 53 types of tribes.
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