This White Paper proposes a structural transition in Odisha’s food-security architecture by converting what is currently a recurring fiscal liability into a self-financing public nutrition infrastructure. The proposed Mahābhārat–Taste Tourism Network can re-engineer tourism circulation into a sovereign food economy that can continuously generate livelihoods, finances dignity feeding and institutionalise disaster nutrition readiness as standing public capacity.

The present subsidy- and ration-centric welfare model has gradually transformed nutrition security into a permanent fiscal burden while weakening local food economies and work participation. The proposed framework, if implemented in full, has the potential to replace this dependency architecture with an entrepreneurial food sovereignty model where nutrition is produced through a community participatory living economic circulation rather than as government delivered static entitlement.

Under this framework, temple food corridors, tribal superfood belts, forest produce kitchens, coastal and highway food districts, inter-state heritage food corridors and mobile disaster kitchens can be formalised into regulated public food enterprises. These enterprises then can generate employment, stabilise rural and tribal livelihoods, preserve indigenous crop lineages and finance Antordaya nutrition provisioning through ASBS pooling embedded inside daily tourism movement.

This will enable nutrition security to become a measurable economic output rather than a budgetary expense. Disaster feeding then will gradually take a shift from reactive relief to institutional readiness. Welfare recipients progressively can become kitchen operators, logistics handlers, sanitation workers, storage managers, food processors, packaging units owners, heritage chefs and redistribution coordinators embedded inside the proposed Mahābhārat–Taste circulation grid.

This transition will drastically alter Odisha from a nutrition deficient State to evolve into India’s first Food Sovereignty Tourism State where civilisational food systems operate as living public infrastructure, tourism finances dignity nutrition, employment is decentralised and resilient, and disaster feeding capacity functions as standing State readiness rather than emergency charity.

2. Foundational Doctrine

The Mahābhārat–Taste Tourism Network is proposed to be constituted as a public food circulation infrastructure system and must not be interpreted or administered as a hospitality, catering or leisure commerce activity. The Network is to structurally integrate food, tourism movement, social obligation and disaster-ready nutrition into a single statewide circulation field. Tourism within this framework is defined as a regulated movement of people, goods and services through protected food corridors, heritage kitchens and nutrition continuity infrastructure, wherein food functions as the primary stabilising medium connecting economic activity with livelihood continuity, social redistribution and standing emergency preparedness.

The operational doctrine of the Network is then governed by Antordaya positioning, under which the weakest households, migrant labour populations, displaced families, dependent children and vulnerable persons are legally designated as the first beneficiaries within the food circulation chain. Access to nutrition for these groups is embedded directly into routine tourism movement. Every paid food transaction within the Network automatically activates a parallel nutrition stream that sustains free-meal sanctums, hospital feeding corridors, orphanage and old-age home supply lines and disaster reserve stock systems. Nutrition security within the Network is therefore institutionalised as a continuous public capacity rather than as an episodic welfare response.

Temple annadānam corridors, tribal seed and superfood ecologies, forest produce kitchens, coastal food lanes and urban heritage rasoi districts are formally constituted as permanent living food infrastructure assets. These units maintain indigenous crop circulation, sustain rural kitchen operations and preserve native food lineages as active economic systems. Then, visitors are routed through functioning civilisational supply fields rather than isolated commercial food outlets, thereby ensuring that heritage food systems remain operational, economically viable and socially productive.

Disaster-exposed districts maintain standing food strongrooms and nutrition vaults under continuous readiness protocols. National highway corridors host millet-based nutrition kitchens functioning simultaneously as transit food parks and ration continuity nodes. Coastal night districts operate surplus routing corridors designed to sustain food circulation during seasonal slowdowns and emergency disruptions. Hospitals, shelters and orphanages remain permanently linked to these circuits so that nutrition continuity remains uninterrupted across all climatic, market and disaster cycles.

Local families, Self-Help Groups and tribal collectives function as the primary operating entities of all kitchens and food parks under regulated empanelment frameworks. Public agencies create estates, corridors and statutory safety frameworks. Tourism institutions manage routing, visibility and visitor circulation. Health systems, disaster management authorities, energy utilities, export logistics networks and supply chain systems remain structurally integrated within a single circulation command field, thereby ensuring that livelihood generation, welfare provisioning and resilience readiness operate as a unified public infrastructure continuum.

3. Proposed Mahābhārat–Taste Tourism Network, Odisha

The Mahābhārat–Taste Tourism Network, Odisha is conceived as a statewide public food circulation and disaster-ready nutrition infrastructure capable of repositioning tourism as a continuity system rather than as a hospitality-led consumption industry. It is designed to operate as a unified circulation architecture in which heritage kitchens, temple annadānam corridors, tribal superfood belts, forest produce kitchens, coastal night food districts, highway millet nutrition parks, urban heritage rasoi zones, export food gateways and disaster nutrition vaults can be integrated inside a single regulated operating field. This circulation field is structured to carry nutrition continuity, livelihood security, surplus redistribution and emergency feeding readiness as embedded functions of routine tourism movement across the State.

Within this architecture, every tourism corridor, destination zone and transit cluster can be structurally aligned with Antardaya-positioned nutrition provisioning. Visitor movement can function as a permanent public resource stream that will progressively sustain free-meal sanctums, hospital attendant feeding grids, orphanage and old-age home supply corridors and disaster reserve kitchens through the Antardaya Seva Bhojan Sangrahalaya pooling system. Hunger reduction, dignity nutrition and disaster feeding readiness can thereby operate as standing public capacities rather than as episodic welfare responses.

The Network is intended to function through permanent working food infrastructure spaces notified across temple towns, coastal belts, forest and tribal districts, hill zones, riverfront settlements, highway corridors and urban heritage districts. These spaces can be operated primarily by trained local families, Self-Help Groups and tribal collectives, allowing indigenous food lineages to remain active economic systems while stabilising decentralised livelihood structures. SIDCO can undertake estate creation and MSME incubation. OTDC can administer zoning, routing and tourism safety frameworks. ITDC can integrate national and international tourism circuits into the unified circulation field.

Through structural integration with ORMAS, OSIC, OSDMA, NHM, APICOL, OCCL, OFDC, ICDS, logistics and cold-chain networks, renewable energy utilities and public supply systems, the Network can convert tourism corridors into nutrition continuity grids, disaster feeding command spaces and export-linked heritage food corridors. Daily tourism movement can thereby carry embedded functions of livelihood security, nutrition provisioning, supply chain resilience and disaster readiness as standing public infrastructure within the territorial governance field of Odisha.

4. Strategic Positioning and Territorial Tourism Architecture

Under the proposed Mahābhārat–Taste Tourism Network, Odisha can function as a Food Sovereignty Tourism State by structurally integrating nutrition continuity, livelihood stabilisation and disaster-feeding readiness into daily tourism circulation through deployable infrastructure, regulated zoning and institutional command frameworks. Odisha already carries the physical, ecological and administrative feasibility to operationalise this model due to its high pilgrimage density, highway freight spines, forest and coastal food belts, district-level disaster command systems, ICDS and PDS networks, extensive Self-Help Group coverage and state-owned tourism land banks. These existing systems can be reorganised into a unified territorial food circulation architecture that converts routine visitor movement into standing nutrition infrastructure rather than treating feeding as episodic welfare intervention.

Temple and pilgrimage corridors across Puri, Konark, Bhubaneswar, Jajpur, Baripada and Taratarini can be operationally aligned with existing annadānam kitchens, hospital clusters, district relief stockyards and OTDC land assets to form permanent nutrition corridors capable of supporting daily free-meal sanctums, pilgrim feeding lines and disaster fallback food vaults. Satvik and Jain-compatible pure vegetarian tourism parks in temple hinterlands can function as regulated high-integrity kitchen zones serving verified vegetarian circuits, religious tour groups and long-stay pilgrim populations while preserving indigenous kitchen lineages under certified hygiene and traceability protocols.

Highway stopover parks along NH-16, NH-57 and NH-326 can be operationalised as millet-based transit nutrition hubs integrated with toll plaza logistics, state highway maintenance depots, cold-chain points and district emergency stockpiles, enabling them to simultaneously serve tourist traffic, freight drivers and first 48-hour disaster ration response needs. Tribal and Vanavasi heritage circuits across Koraput, Rayagada, Kandhamal, Malkangiri and Mayurbhanj can be structured as protected forest superfood circulation corridors that route millets, tubers, honey, sal seed, tamarind and herbal produce directly into tourism kitchens under minimum return procurement floors, stabilising tribal nutrition economies while supplying continuous heritage food volumes.

Coastal nightlife and family leisure districts in Puri, Gopalpur, Chandipur and Paradeep can function as surplus routing food zones aligned with fisheries harbours, coastal cold rooms, ice plants and marine police infrastructure, ensuring that these districts remain operational during seasonal downturns and cyclone recovery phases. The Balasore to Ganjam coastal belt can operate as a maritime food circulation corridor integrating rice belts, seafood landing centres and export-linked heritage kitchens under traceable supply protocols.

Hill and eco forest zones such as Daringbadi, Mahendragiri, Deomali and Satkosia can be organised as herbal, honey and millet nutrition belts linked to ICDS, NHM and district relief stock systems, thereby serving both wellness tourism and fallback disaster nutrition needs. Riverfront and ghat heritage towns including Cuttack, Sambalpur, Baleswar and Talcher can function as ritual-linked feeding hubs and redistribution nodes connected to PDS godowns, municipal kitchens and hospital clusters. Urban heritage districts can stabilise living rasoi economies within walkable heritage cores integrated with municipal sanitation and waste to energy systems.

Handloom, craft and GI villages can integrate craft tourism with food corridors to stabilise artisan livelihoods while supplying indigenous ingredient lines to nearby kitchens. Wetland, island and mangrove zones can operate as eco nutrition circuits aligned with forest department zoning, bird sanctuary tourism flows and eco restoration programmes. Adventure, wellness, festival and night bazaar zones can operate as seasonal circulation amplifiers feeding into the same unified nutrition continuity grid.

Through this territorially zoned, institutionally anchored and logistics-integrated architecture, Odisha can be positioned as India’s first Food Sovereignty Tourism State where daily tourism movement can function as deployable nutrition infrastructure, livelihood stabilisation machinery and disaster-ready feeding command systems embedded inside routine public circulation rather than as parallel welfare operations.

5. Antardaya Seva Bhojan Sangrahalaya (ASBS) – Universal Food Contribution and Redistribution Architecture

Within the Mahābhārat–Taste Tourism Network, the Antardaya Seva Bhojan Sangrahalaya (ASBS) is designed to function as the central fiscal–nutrition command architecture through which tourism movement can be converted into standing dignity feeding and disaster readiness capacity. Every beneficiary who consumes food within any notified Mahābhārat–Taste tourism corridor, park, district or transit hub can contribute a small dignified seva amount into a unified sacred nutrition pool administered through ASBS. This pooled seva flow is intended to operate as a continuous public nutrition financing stream rather than as a donation-based welfare mechanism. It is proposed that:

• ASBS is structured to integrate with all territorial food circulation domains and is designed to manage four permanent redistribution and readiness grids.

• Surplus Redistribution Corridors can route verified safe surplus food from tourism kitchens, highway hubs, coastal night districts and urban rasoi zones into slum feeding points, night shelters, pilgrim rest houses, orphanages and old age homes through geo tagged, cold chain supported routing lines.

• Hospital Nutrition Contribution Grids can provide daily free meals for patient attendants, long stay treatment families and government hospital wards through continuous routing from nearby Mahābhārat–Taste kitchens and transit hubs.

• Disaster Rescue Nutrition Facilities can maintain permanent cyclone, flood and heatwave food vaults, mobile kitchen fleets and first 48-hour survival ration stockpiles integrated with district disaster command centres and emergency transport corridors.

• Orphan and Old Age Home Nutrition Networks can ensure weekly ration provisioning and cooked meal financing for orphanages, widow ashrams, old age homes and special child care institutions through standing ASBS supply lines.

• Through ASBS, daily tourism consumption can be structurally converted into a permanent nutrition continuity engine that finances invisible household feeding, institutional care provisioning and disaster survival readiness, thereby embedding Antardaya as a measurable, auditable and deployable public infrastructure function inside routine tourism circulation.

6.Inter-State Heritage Food Corridors: Formalisation, Commercialisation, Employment Continuity and Socialisation of India’s Culinary Nutrition Traditions

Within the Mahābhārat–Taste Tourism Network, the Inter-State Heritage Food Corridors can function as a national civilisational interface through which India’s diverse culinary lineages and nutrition traditions can be formalised into regulated public food economies, commercialised through protected circulation systems and socialised into everyday public life. These corridors are not limited to presenting regional cuisines as tourism attractions. They are designed to institutionalise them as working nutrition cultures, allowing diverse food habits, ritual diets, medicinal food systems, fasting traditions, forest and millet nutrition ecologies and pilgrimage-linked feeding practices to circulate continuously within a unified Antardaya-aligned food grid.

Each corridor can be notified as a heritage food estate or food village and can be integrated into OTDC zoning, SIDCO estate development and ITDC tourism routing frameworks. These estates can host heritage rasois, GI product galleries, live culinary museums, ingredient aggregation yards, cold chain rooms, drying courts, packaging units and ASBS surplus routing nodes. Through this architecture, diverse culinary traditions from across India can be preserved as active living systems, embedded inside formal hygiene, traceability and food safety regimes while remaining anchored to their source communities through protected procurement corridors and minimum return pricing floors.

These corridors can socialise diverse nutrition cultures into everyday public circulation. Satvik temple diets, tribal forest superfoods, Himalayan herbal nutrition, coastal rice and seafood ecologies, fermented food traditions, millet-based resilience diets, ayurvedic therapeutic foods and pilgrimage feeding practices can become part of routine food exposure for residents, travellers, patients, migrant workers and disaster affected populations. This socialisation process can progressively restore dietary diversity, can improve micro nutrient access, can stabilise indigenous crop demand and can revive disappearing food lineages.

Layered employment ecosystems can emerge across heritage chefs, forest produce and farm aggregators, cold chain technicians, packaging and branding workers, digital sales managers, logistics handlers, sanitation and water integrity staff, culinary trainers and apprenticeship cadres drawn from Self-Help Groups, tribal cooperatives and youth skilling programmes. Formal certification and entrepreneurship pipelines can institutionalise long cycle livelihoods rather than seasonal tourism employment.

Embedded inside ASBS redistribution grids, hospital feeding networks and disaster nutrition vaults, these inter-state corridors can transform tourism circulation into a continuous nutrition socialisation and employment generation engine, repositioning Odisha as the only Indian state where daily public movement can structurally carry civilisational dietary diversity, livelihood continuity and standing disaster ready feeding capacity as embedded public infrastructure rather than episodic welfare activity.

7.Management Verticals Through Single Window Control Design: Generation of Professionalism, Sectoral Development, Employment Expansion and 360 Degree Transformation of Odisha’s Culinary Heritage and Tourism Potential

The Mahābhārat–Taste Tourism Network requires a sovereign, unified and legally empowered command structure capable of converting Odisha’s dispersed culinary traditions, informal food economies and fragmented tourism assets into a regulated, professional and employment generating public infrastructure system. The Single Window Control Design is conceived as the institutional architecture through which Odisha’s culinary heritage can be formalised into modern regulated food economies, diversified sectoral growth can be activated, and tourism circulation can be shaped into a standing livelihood, nutrition and disaster readiness system rather than remaining a seasonal commercial activity.

7.1 Unified Operating Authority

The Mahābhārat–Taste Tourism Network can function under one Unified Operating Authority constituted either as a new statutory agency, a notified nodal government corporation or a licensed public private consortium operating under formal Government charter. Only one such authority can exercise statewide jurisdiction. All planning, zoning, approvals, routing, empanelment, pricing regulation, compliance supervision and enforcement functions can flow through this Authority. Parallel institutional structures can be progressively phased out so that fragmented governance, informal operations and unregulated commercialisation do not dilute territorial food security or disaster readiness capacity.

This Authority can function as the food tourism command of the State and can exercise comprehensive control over licensing and grading of kitchens and food estates, heritage conformity standards, real time data command and visitor movement analytics, meal volume accounting, ASBS seva pooling supervision, disaster nutrition stock governance, integrated banking gateways, vendor empanelment and performance guarantees, insurance coverage systems, unified transport routing grids, sanitation and water integrity controls, environmental compliance frameworks, marketing and branding governance and consolidated food safety and traceability enforcement.

Through this unified command field, Odisha can professionalise heritage kitchens, formalise decentralised food economies, integrate MSME, Self Help Group and tribal production belts into regulated tourism supply chains, and generate continuous employment across culinary, logistics, sanitation, cold chain, digital commerce, training and disaster response sectors. The Unified Operating Authority can operate as the institutional engine that converts Odisha’s civilisational food capital into a modern, accountable and nationally positionable Food Sovereignty Tourism Infrastructure System.

7.2. Single Regulation Point

The Mahābhārat–Taste Tourism Network is designed to operate through one consolidated State Regulatory Window that can function as the sole legally recognised authority for all licensing, registration, food safety compliance, heritage conformity certification, pricing band approvals, Antardaya seva contribution rules and disaster ration governance. This regulatory window can replace fragmented departmental permissions, local discretionary clearances and parallel licensing channels that presently govern food, tourism and welfare activities in isolation. By consolidating regulatory authority into a single institutional point, Odisha can reduce procedural ambiguity, remove field-level discretion and establish a predictable governance field capable of supporting large scale tourism movement, decentralised livelihood systems and disaster feeding readiness.

All empanelment of heritage kitchens, Self Help Group food enterprises, tribal collectives, highway food parks, night districts, food villages and export linked heritage food units can be routed exclusively through this single regulatory window. Permissions, certificates or approvals issued outside this window can carry no legal validity. Field-level discretionary exemptions can be progressively eliminated. This structure can professionalise heritage food operations, standardise hygiene and pricing behaviour, protect consumer trust and stabilise long-cycle employment creation across tourism, logistics, sanitation, cold chain and food processing sectors.

Through this regulatory vertical, Odisha can institutionalise uniform food safety, pricing integrity, heritage authenticity and Antardaya compliance across the Mahābhārat–Taste circulation grid, thereby converting dispersed informal kitchens into a regulated public food infrastructure economy.

7.3 Integrated Digital Governance System and Single Data Command Grid

The Mahābhārat–Taste Tourism Network can operate through a single Integrated Digital Governance System that functions as the authoritative public interface between visitors, operators and participating government agencies. This system can replace fragmented departmental portals, private booking platforms and unregulated food tourism applications that currently dilute routing control, compliance supervision and disaster coordination. It can serve as the digital command core of the Network and can centralise routing governance, Antardaya seva contribution routing, compliance supervision and disaster readiness interfaces within one verified public command architecture.

This system can host a statewide public website carrying verified destination listings, notified food villages, temple corridors, night districts, free meal sanctums, disaster nutrition points and hospital feeding locations. A unified mobile application can provide visitor mapping, menu and nutrition visibility, transparent pricing information, Antardaya seva contribution display, safety advisories and grievance reporting. Operator dashboards can manage supply intake, daily meal volumes, sanitation audits, stock positions, cold chain movements and disaster readiness indicators. A central command console can monitor surplus routing flows, hospital feeding volumes, disaster vault stock levels, mobile kitchen deployment status and night district safety in real time.

Digital seva pooling, QR based ingredient and meal traceability, emergency alert integration and automated audit trail generation for food safety, sanitation, insurance and environmental compliance can remain embedded functions of this system. Parallel digital platforms, private aggregation portals and unauthorised booking and listing systems can be progressively excluded, allowing command continuity, public trust and disaster time operability to remain institutionally protected.

A unified State Data Command Grid can function as the central nervous system of the Mahābhārat–Taste Tourism Network. This grid can operate through a real time digital dashboard that records visitor movement flows, meal production and consumption volumes, Antardaya seva contribution accruals, surplus redistribution routing, disaster reserve stock levels and hospital nutrition supply volumes across tourism zones, food parks, night districts and transit hubs.

All kitchens, food estates, mobile food fleets, storage vaults, hospital feeding corridors and ASBS redistribution nodes can remain digitally integrated with this grid through mandatory geo tagged reporting interfaces. Data feeds generated through this grid can serve as the primary control input for district and State level oversight, disaster readiness assessments, nutrition continuity audits, employment monitoring and policy recalibration. Through this digital command field, Odisha can embed transparency, real time oversight, corruption prevention and disaster readiness intelligence directly into everyday tourism circulation and public nutrition operations.

7.4 Single Banking and Seva Pool Gateway

The Mahābhārat–Taste Tourism Network can operate through one integrated State Banking and Seva Pool Gateway that functions as the authorised financial circulation channel for all commercial receipts and Antardaya seva contributions generated within the Network. This gateway can remain digitally linked with the Antardaya Seva Bhojan Sangrahalaya and can serve as the exclusive conduit through which tourism linked food transactions, seva pooling flows, institutional settlements and redistribution funding streams are processed. By centralising fiscal movement into a single monitored gateway, Odisha can prevent fragmentation of nutrition financing, preserve Antardaya integrity and maintain continuous visibility across all public feeding flows.

This gateway can replace informal pooling practices, parallel settlement routes and unverified cash handling that currently weaken auditability and increase fiscal leakage risks. All kitchens, food parks, night districts, transit hubs, mobile kitchen fleets, heritage food villages and export linked heritage food corridors can remain digitally integrated with this gateway through mandatory account linkage, transaction tagging and automated reporting interfaces. This integration can ensure that every tourism linked food transaction contributes to the nutrition continuity architecture without dilution.

All audits, settlements, redistribution releases, disaster stock financing and hospital feeding disbursements can be executed only through this unified gateway. Automated accounting trails can record source level transactions, Antardaya accruals, redistribution routing and beneficiary side releases across all districts and corridors. This structure can enable real time monitoring of nutrition financing flows, prevent diversion, and allow public agencies to maintain continuous fiscal situational awareness during both routine operations and disaster activation cycles.

Through this fiscal vertical, Odisha can convert tourism commerce into a traceable public nutrition financing infrastructure that supports institutional care provisioning, invisible household feeding and disaster survival readiness as permanent public capacities embedded within daily tourism circulation.

7.5 Single Vendor Selection Window

All Self-Help Groups, tribal collectives, family kitchens, food MSMEs and heritage food enterprises seeking participation within the Mahābhārat–Taste Tourism Network can be selected, graded, certified and empanelled exclusively through one State Level Vendor Selection Window constituted under the Unified Operating Authority. District level empanelment committees, private aggregators, franchise networks and informal licensing channels can remain outside the recognised selection field. This structure can allow the Network to preserve a unified quality threshold while preventing fragmented gatekeeping and unregulated entry into protected food corridors.

This window can evaluate applicants on hygiene compliance, heritage authenticity, Antardaya contribution adherence, disaster readiness capacity, green compliance and service quality benchmarks. Formal grading, performance guarantees and renewal eligibility can be issued only through this window. This architecture can allow decentralised kitchens and heritage food enterprises to enter formal tourism supply chains under predictable compliance expectations rather than informal negotiation.

Through this vertical, Odisha can professionalise heritage food entrepreneurship, formalise decentralised kitchen economies, standardise service quality, create predictable MSME growth pipelines and generate structured employment ecosystems across culinary, logistics, sanitation, training and disaster response sectors.

7.6 Beneficiary Performance Guarantee System

Every empanelled kitchen operator, Self Help Group unit, tribal collective, family rasoi and MSME enterprise functioning within the Mahābhārat–Taste Tourism Network can be required to submit formal digital undertakings constituting a Beneficiary Performance Guarantee. These undertakings can cover food continuity obligations, hygiene and sanitation compliance, disaster response readiness standards, Antardaya seva contribution adherence, green contribution responsibilities and declared hospitality service norms.

All undertakings can remain digitally recorded within the Unified Data Command Grid and can be treated as enforceable compliance instruments rather than voluntary declarations. Performance guarantees can form the basis for grading, renewal eligibility, incentive allocation and corrective enforcement actions. Through this vertical, Odisha can institutionalise accountability, stabilise service quality, secure nutrition continuity and embed disaster readiness as contractual public obligations inside routine tourism operations.

7.7 Single Insurance and Risk Coverage Window

A statewide insurance and risk coverage framework can be instituted through one approved insurance provider designated under the Unified Operating Authority. This framework can provide comprehensive coverage for visitors, kitchen staff, mobile kitchen fleets, surplus redistribution operations, disaster feeding deployments and food contamination liabilities across the Mahābhārat–Taste Tourism Network.

All kitchens, food estates, transit hubs, mobile fleets and storage vaults can remain mandatorily covered under this unified insurance architecture. Independent insurance arrangements, fragmented private coverage schemes and parallel risk frameworks can be progressively excluded. Through this vertical, Odisha can institutionalise risk protection, ensure rapid compensation, safeguard public trust and stabilise tourism linked employment ecosystems.

7.8 Single Transport and Mobility Network

The movement of raw materials, cooked food, mobile kitchen fleets, surplus redistribution cargo, disaster ration consignments and export linked heritage food shipments within the Mahābhārat–Taste Tourism Network can operate under one Unified Transport and Mobility Command Network. This network can define fixed routing corridors, emergency priority lanes, cold chain movement grids, GPS tracked vehicle fleets and disaster time rapid deployment lanes integrated with district disaster control rooms and highway authorities.

Untracked, unauthorised or informal logistics operators can remain outside the recognised mobility field. This structure can institutionalise predictable supply chains, enable rapid disaster response capability, protect food integrity, stabilise logistics sector employment and convert tourism circulation into a resilient food mobility infrastructure grid.

7.9 Single Sanitation, Water and Hygiene Control System

All kitchens, food parks, coastal night districts, highway food hubs, mobile kitchen fleets and storage vaults operating within the Mahābhārat–Taste Tourism Network can function under one unified Sanitation, Water and Hygiene Integrity Control Grid administered through the Unified Operating Authority. This grid can regulate water sourcing and purification standards, kitchen sanitation protocols, waste segregation and disposal practices, vector and pest control regimes, effluent treatment systems and drainage integrity across tourism food infrastructure zones.

Hygiene audits, laboratory testing, water quality certifications and sanitation compliance reporting can be conducted exclusively through this unified grid. Parallel sanitation frameworks, informal hygiene certifications and fragmented municipal compliance regimes can be progressively excluded. This architecture can institutionalise uniform public health protection, prevent contamination risks, standardise sanitation employment cadres and convert dispersed kitchens into a safe, auditable and disaster resilient public food infrastructure ecosystem.

7.10 Single Window Green Commitment Fund and Environmental Responsibility Grid

A State level Green Commitment Fund can be constituted under the Unified Operating Authority as the ecological finance engine of the Mahābhārat–Taste Tourism Network. All empanelled operators, food estates, night districts, transit hubs and mobile kitchen fleets can contribute mandatorily to this fund, ensuring that ecological responsibility remains embedded within daily tourism food circulation.

The Fund can finance biodegradable and leaf based packaging transitions, renewable energy kitchen installations, composting and biomass conversion systems, tree and wetland regeneration programmes near tourism corridors and carbon offset plantation belts linked to food circulation routes. Environmental compliance, green contribution adherence and waste reduction performance can remain embedded within operational audits and performance grading systems. Through this ecological vertical, Odisha can embed restoration, low carbon food systems and green employment generation into routine tourism circulation while protecting climate resilience and environmental integrity.

7.11 Single Window Marketing, Branding and Visitor Routing System

All communication, tourism promotion, festival calendars, travel trade partnerships, online platform listings and international marketing engagements associated with the Mahābhārat–Taste Tourism Network can operate through one Unified Marketing, Branding and Visitor Routing Command System administered by the Unified Operating Authority. This system can centralise naming rights governance, visual identity standards, heritage branding protocols, pricing transparency rules, digital booking frameworks, festival and event calendars and structured visitor routing plans across temple corridors, food villages, night districts, highway hubs and eco tourism zones.

Independent branding campaigns, parallel promotions, unregulated digital listings and unauthorised tour packaging can remain outside the recognised circulation field. Through this vertical, Odisha can establish a coherent global identity for its Food Sovereignty Tourism doctrine, prevent market fragmentation, protect heritage authenticity, ensure transparent pricing behaviour and channel visitor flows in a manner that stabilises employment, protects ecological zones and strengthens nutrition continuity circuits.

7.12 Single Window Food Safety, Supply and Compliance

All sourcing, procurement, cooking, storage, transport and serving activities within the Mahābhārat–Taste Tourism Network can function under one consolidated Food Safety, Supply and Compliance Window. This window can govern ingredient origin certification, organic and indigenous crop traceability, cold chain integrity, shelf life tracking, storage and handling standards, cooking process audits, laboratory testing regimes, contamination control measures, recall protocols and full traceability from farm, forest and fishery to plate.

Parallel food safety certification regimes and fragmented departmental compliance channels can be progressively excluded. Through this vertical, Odisha can institutionalise end to end food integrity, safeguard public health, protect indigenous crop economies, professionalise food handling employment and convert tourism kitchens into globally credible, audit ready public food infrastructure.

7.13 Integrated Digital Governance System

The Mahābhārat–Taste Tourism Network can operate through one Integrated Digital Governance Platform that functions as the authoritative interface between visitors, operators and participating government agencies. This platform can serve as the digital command core of the Network and can replace fragmented departmental portals, private booking platforms and unregulated food tourism applications.

The platform can host a statewide public website carrying verified destination listings, notified food villages, temple corridors, night districts, free meal sanctums, disaster nutrition points and hospital feeding locations. A unified mobile application can provide visitor mapping, menu and nutrition visibility, transparent pricing information, Antardaya seva contribution display, safety advisories and grievance reporting. Operator dashboards can manage supply intake, daily meal volumes, sanitation audits, stock positions, cold chain movements and disaster readiness indicators. A central command console can monitor surplus routing flows, hospital feeding volumes, disaster vault stock levels, mobile kitchen deployment status and night district safety in real time.

Digital seva pooling, QR based ingredient and meal traceability, emergency alert integration and automated audit trail generation for food safety, sanitation, insurance and environmental compliance can remain embedded functions of this platform. Parallel digital platforms, private aggregation portals and unauthorised booking and listing systems can be progressively excluded. Through this digital vertical, Odisha can institutionalise real time command, transparency, public trust, corruption prevention and disaster time operational continuity as built in features of its Food Sovereignty Tourism Infrastructure.

7.14 Single Window Tourist Parking, Refreshment and Transit Hub Grid

All tourism clusters, heritage food parks, night districts, pilgrimage corridors and highway food parks operating under the Mahābhārat–Taste Tourism Network can function within one Unified Tourist Parking, Refreshment and Transit Hub Grid administered through the Unified Operating Authority. This grid can constitute the physical mobility and visitor support backbone of the Network and can regulate the planning, construction and operation of parking bays, transit shelters, refreshment courts, water and sanitation points, electric vehicle charging stations, fuel safety corridors, rest zones for drivers and pilgrims and emergency assembly points. All hubs can remain geo tagged, digitally integrated with the State Data Command Grid and structurally linked with district disaster control rooms and hospital feeding corridors.

No informal, unregistered or parallel parking, refreshment or transit operations can remain inside notified Mahābhārat–Taste corridors and districts. This structure can allow Odisha to institutionalise predictable visitor mobility, crowd safety, sanitation integrity and rapid emergency response while generating structured employment across parking management, sanitation, security, transport coordination and visitor assistance services.

Design Standards and Operational Control: This Unified Tourist Parking, Refreshment and Transit Hub Grid can regulate design standards, location planning, capacity thresholds and operational protocols of all vehicle parking bays for private vehicles, buses and organised tourist fleets. It can structure resting and refreshment zones for drivers, pilgrims and transit visitors, drinking water supply and sanitation refresh points, electric vehicle charging bays and fuel safety corridors. Waiting shelters for elderly visitors, children and persons with reduced mobility can remain structurally linked with tourist help counters integrated into district control rooms.

All parking zones, refreshment hubs and transit shelters can remain geo tagged, digitally mapped and continuously monitored through the Integrated Digital Governance Platform and the State Data Command Grid. Parallel or unregistered parking, refreshment and transit operations can remain outside the recognised circulation field. Through this grid, Odisha can embed safe visitor mobility, emergency readiness, sanitation integrity and structured employment generation across transit operations, sanitation services, visitor assistance and safety coordination as permanent public infrastructure functions.

7.16. Local Organic Production and Supply Chain Procurement and Integration Grid

All Mahābhārat–Taste operating units can procure food, raw materials and kitchen inputs exclusively through the Local Organic Production and Supply Chain Procurement and Integration Grid, which can function as the authorised primary sourcing architecture of the Network. This grid can replace open market, anonymous and long haul procurement practices and can embed kitchens directly within Odisha’s native farm, forest and homestead production belts as a regulated public food supply system. By anchoring sourcing inside verified territorial production zones, the Network can retain food integrity, shorten supply chains and stabilise producer livelihoods.

This grid can integrate district wise certified organic farm clusters supplying cereals, millets, pulses, oilseeds, vegetables, fruits and medicinal herbs. It can integrate temple linked agriculture lines supplying annadānam corridors with ritual grade rice, pulses, vegetables, oils and ghee. It can integrate tribal forest produce aggregation zones sourcing honey, mahua, tamarind, sal seed, jackfruit, millets, roots, tubers and herbal ingredients. It can integrate registered indigenous seed and crop lineage farms preserving traditional rice and millet varieties. It can integrate village level backyard dairy and poultry units supplying milk, curd, ghee and eggs. It can integrate urban and peri urban community kitchen garden belts supplying leafy greens, vegetables and medicinal plants.

District Processing and Buffer Continuity System: Primary sorting, cleaning, grading, drying and dehusking yards can be authorised for pre delivery processing. District level cold rooms and grain vaults can hold buffer stocks and disaster fallback reserves. Minimum return procurement floors and guaranteed procurement volumes can protect registered producers, while dedicated disaster buffer procurement pools can secure uninterrupted kitchen operations during flood, cyclone and transport disruption periods.

The Grid can regulate district organic farmer clusters, millet belts, temple linked farm lines, tribal aggregation zones, backyard dairy and poultry networks, community seed banks, heritage crop corridors, chemical free input supply lines, on farm primary processing yards, local cold room clusters and direct farmer to kitchen routing corridors. All production clusters, aggregation yards and storage facilities can remain geo tagged, digitally audited and routed only through the Integrated Digital Governance Platform. Anonymous, unregistered or external bulk sourcing can remain outside the recognised procurement field.

Through this vertical, Odisha can institutionalise traceable local sourcing, stabilise rural and tribal livelihoods, protect indigenous crop diversity, ensure food integrity and secure disaster ready supply continuity as embedded public infrastructure functions of the Mahābhārat–Taste Tourism Network.

7.17 Human Resource Architecture and Employment Continuity System

The Mahābhārat–Taste Tourism Network can operate through a formally constituted State controlled Human Resource Architecture designed to professionalise heritage food systems, stabilise long cycle employment and embed governance, safety, science and disaster readiness functions within routine tourism circulation. All personnel can be empanelled, graded and deployed under a unified human resource command administered by the Unified Operating Authority. This architecture can replace informal hiring practices, ad hoc staffing and unverified labour sourcing with a regulated employment field anchored in training, accountability and continuity.

Strategic and Supervisory Cadres: The strategic and supervisory cadre can comprise Chief Food Systems Officers, Tourism Circuit Operations Managers, Agricultural and Indigenous Seed Resource Managers, Food Science and Quality Assurance Heads, Nutrition and Hospital Feeding Managers, Dairy and Gopalak System Managers, Disaster Nutrition Command Heads, Digital and Traceability Managers, Language and International Visitor Services Managers, Green Compliance and Environmental Managers and Supply Chain and Storage Command Heads. These cadres can carry responsibility for governance oversight, food integrity, Antardaya compliance, disaster readiness, digital traceability, visitor services, ecological compliance and end to end supply continuity across all corridors and districts.

Operational Cadres: The operational cadre can comprise trained heritage chefs, kitchen and service staff, mobile kitchen crews, parking and transit hub staff, visitor help desk operators, warehouse and cold room technicians, transport drivers and dispatch teams and sanitation and water integrity workers. These cadres can manage on ground kitchen operations, visitor handling, logistics movement, storage management, hygiene maintenance and emergency deployment functions under structured reporting and performance oversight.

Through this structured human resource architecture, Odisha can generate decentralised, dignified and long-term employment across culinary, logistics, sanitation, digital governance, disaster response and environmental management sectors while professionalising heritage food systems into a modern public infrastructure economy.

8. Comprehensive Critical Outcomes

8.1 Structural Recalibration of the Tourism Economy

The institutionalisation of the Mahābhārat–Taste Tourism Network can recalibrate Odisha’s tourism economy from a fragmented hospitality-led sector into a unified civilisational food circulation infrastructure capable of generating permanent livelihoods, stabilising nutrition security and embedding disaster readiness within daily public movement. Tourism can move away from functioning only as consumption traffic and can evolve into a regulated circulation system that continuously finances Antardaya nutrition provisioning, sustains decentralised rural and tribal kitchen economies and embeds surplus redistribution as standing public capacity inside routine mobility flows.

8.2 Professionalisation of Heritage Food Systems and Employment Expansion

Heritage kitchens, tribal superfood belts, temple annadānam corridors, coastal night food districts and highway millet nutrition hubs can transition from informal and seasonal operations into professionalised, digitally governed and legally protected public food estates. This transition can generate structured employment across culinary services, cold chain logistics, sanitation, digital operations, food science, disaster response, green compliance and visitor services. Indigenous crop lineages can remain active economic systems while minimum return procurement structures can stabilise income security for farmers, forest gatherers and gopalak households.

8.3 Nutrition Continuity and Disaster Readiness Transformation

The ASBS pooling architecture can convert routine tourism consumption into a continuous financing engine for hospital attendant feeding, orphanage and old age home nutrition networks, night shelter feeding and permanent disaster nutrition vaults. This shift can reposition Odisha’s feeding systems from episodic relief mechanisms to institutional readiness frameworks. Disaster exposed districts can acquire standing food vaults, mobile kitchen fleets and first 48 hour survival ration capacity integrated with tourism circulation and district disaster command systems.

8.4 Public Infrastructure Governance and Ecological Accountability

The unified digital governance, transport mobility, sanitation, food safety and green compliance grids can establish Odisha as a nationally auditable and globally credible food tourism infrastructure state. Traceable sourcing, standardised hygiene, ecological accountability and transparent fiscal flows can become embedded features of daily tourism circulation. Tourism movement can function as a measurable public infrastructure system that simultaneously carries livelihood generation, nutrition continuity, disaster readiness and ecological restoration as integrated operational functions.

8.5 Territorial Positioning and Civilisational Infrastructure Transition

Collectively, these transformations can position Odisha as India’s first Food Sovereignty Tourism State where civilisational food systems are preserved as living public infrastructure, tourism circulation finances dignity nutrition, employment is decentralised and resilient, and disaster feeding capacity operates as standing state readiness rather than emergency charity.

9. The Expected Outcome

The Mahābhārat–Taste Tourism Network can enable Odisha to execute a civilisational correction in its food security architecture by shifting the State away from a dependency driven ration and subsidy regime that has progressively converted large sections of the population into permanent recipients of free food transfers, weakened work participation, eroded local food economies and turned nutrition security into a fiscal liability.

Under this framework, welfare dependence can be structurally replaced by enterprise based nutrition production. The same households that presently exist as subsidy dependent ration consumers can be reorganised into kitchen operators, raw material producers, logistics handlers, sanitation workers, storage managers, food processors, packaging units, mobile kitchen crews, heritage chefs and redistribution coordinators operating inside the Mahābhārat–Taste circulation grid. In this system, beneficiaries can progressively move away from remaining passive recipients of State rations and can become contributors, service providers and entrepreneurs within the food economy itself.

Nutrition security can therefore be generated through continuous economic participation rather than permanent fiscal handouts. Antardaya protection can remain guaranteed, yet it can be financed through tourism linked enterprise circulation, ASBS pooling and decentralised food production rather than static subsidy dependence. Odisha can thereby transition from a subsidy consumption welfare state into an entrepreneurial food sovereignty state, where dignity, work, livelihood continuity and disaster readiness can be produced as living public infrastructure rather than delivered as perpetual charity.

10. Methodology

This White Paper has been developed through a structural–doctrinal policy design methodology rather than a programme evaluation or welfare modelling approach. The purpose of the methodology is not to optimise existing schemes but to re-engineer Odisha’s food security, tourism and disaster nutrition architecture into a unified public infrastructure system.

The methodology proceeds from territorial, institutional and circulation-based system design principles. Odisha has been treated as an integrated civilisational operating field in which food, movement, livelihoods, public welfare and disaster readiness are examined as interlinked infrastructure layers rather than isolated sectoral functions. Existing welfare programmes, tourism assets, disaster command systems, ICDS, PDS, SHG networks, temple annadānam corridors, forest produce belts, coastal fisheries infrastructure, highway mobility corridors and municipal kitchen ecosystems were conceptually mapped as living public assets capable of being reorganised into a single circulation architecture.

A doctrinal modelling approach was applied to define the Mahābhārat–Taste Tourism Network as public infrastructure rather than hospitality commerce. This involved constructing Antardaya as a legally embedded positioning doctrine, defining tourism as regulated circulation, and formalising food as a stabilising public medium. From this doctrinal base, the ASBS pooling architecture, disaster nutrition vault systems, surplus redistribution corridors, hospital feeding grids and inter-state heritage food corridors were designed as permanent public capacities rather than discretionary welfare schemes.

Territorial zoning logic was then applied to Odisha’s pilgrimage belts, coastal districts, forest and tribal regions, hill ecologies, riverfront cities, highway corridors and urban heritage cores to construct deployable nutrition, livelihood and disaster readiness grids embedded inside routine tourism movement. Institutional design methodology was used to develop the Single Window Control Architecture, unified digital governance systems, fiscal routing gateways, transport mobility grids, sanitation and food safety control fields, human resource cadres and ecological compliance systems as legally enforceable governance instruments rather than project frameworks.

The methodology is therefore prescriptive, architectural and civilisational in nature. It constructs a sovereign public infrastructure doctrine for food security and disaster readiness, and translates it into territorially deployable governance, financial, digital, mobility and institutional command architectures capable of statutory codification, pilot deployment and statewide scaling.

11. Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use and Authorship Statement

This White Paper is an original civilisational infrastructure and public policy architecture conceived, structured and authored by Dr. Padmalochan Dash.

Artificial intelligence tools, including language assistance systems, were utilised strictly as editorial and linguistic support instruments for grammar correction, sentence refinement and formatting standardisation. No generative systems were permitted to design, conceptualise, interpret, derive, alter or originate any doctrinal, architectural, legal, institutional, fiscal, territorial, disaster governance or food sovereignty frameworks contained in this document.

All conceptual frameworks, structural models, governance architectures, circulation doctrines, institutional mechanisms, fiscal designs, territorial zoning logics and public infrastructure formulations are entirely the intellectual creation of the author and constitute original policy architecture intended for statutory consideration, institutional adoption and pilot implementation by the Government of Odisha and allied public authorities.

This White Paper does not reproduce, adapt or algorithmically synthesise any external proprietary frameworks. It represents an original, sovereign public policy and infrastructure doctrine developed for long-cycle food security, disaster readiness and civilisational livelihood continuity of the State of Odisha.