Turning Fiscal Liability into Nutrition Security: Proposing the MAHĀBHĀRAT–TASTE TOURISM NETWORK-ODISHA:

A Statewide Antardaya-Integrated Food Sovereignty, Disaster Nutrition and Heritage Tourism Infrastructure Framework

Policy White Paper for Institutional Adoption,

Pilot Implementation and Statutory Structuring

This White Paper proposes a fundamental restructuring of Odisha’s food security and tourism architecture by transforming nutrition from a recurring fiscal liability into a self-financing public infrastructure system. It advances the Mahābhārat–Taste Tourism Network as a statewide civilisational food circulation framework that integrates tourism movement, decentralised livelihood generation, Antardaya-positioned welfare provisioning and standing disaster nutrition readiness into a single territorial governance field. The proposed architecture redefines tourism as regulated public circulation rather than hospitality commerce, and formalises food as a stabilising public medium through which dignity feeding, hospital nutrition continuity, surplus redistribution and emergency feeding capacity are institutionalised as permanent public functions.

Through the Antardaya Seva Bhojan Sangrahalaya pooling architecture, routine tourism consumption is converted into a continuous nutrition financing stream that sustains orphanages, old-age homes, hospital attendant feeding networks and disaster nutrition vaults. Temple annadānam corridors, tribal superfood belts, forest produce kitchens, highway millet parks, coastal night districts and urban heritage rasoi zones are structurally reorganised as living public food infrastructure estates operated by local families, Self-Help Groups and tribal collectives. Inter-state heritage food corridors are further proposed to formalise India’s diverse culinary traditions as regulated public nutrition economies embedded within Odisha’s territorial circulation field.

The White Paper introduces a unified Single Window Control Architecture, integrated digital governance grids, consolidated fiscal routing gateways, sanitation and food safety control systems, transport mobility command networks, ecological compliance frameworks and professional human resource cadres to institutionalise accountability, transparency, disaster readiness and employment continuity across the entire network. Collectively, the framework positions Odisha as India’s first Food Sovereignty Tourism State, where daily tourism movement functions as deployable nutrition infrastructure, decentralised livelihood machinery and permanent disaster feeding capacity embedded within routine public circulation rather than episodic welfare intervention.