huge changes to odisha tourism interlinking of women shg workers into tourism fold initiative of starting reality shows like ama ghara ama handishala to promote odia cuisine pithaon wheel to promote authentic odia dishes and avail popular odia pithas to urban people arranging statelevel nuakhai bhetghat to promote culture of odisha and introducing destination wedding at panthanivas across the state are some of her innovative steps aimed to bring back tourism at its trackanshu pragyan dasanshu pragyan das the present dfo of hirakud wildlife division has worked extensively in the field of forest wildlife conservation for the last 14 years her contributions towards transforming the lives of people in and around satkosia tiger reserve by fulfilling their basic requirements brought her wide acclaim as a forest officer and social reformer in the landscape from community ecotourism to wildlife conservation her journey has created many success stories benefitting the forest dependent communities in wildlife areas she is a writer wildlife photographer birder and a sports person she is also recipient of the prestigious earth heroes award 2020 by natwest india devi awards in 2020 ficci womens award 2021 for her commitment towards nature sarah sharmawhen you love the job you are doing you enjoy every moment of your work ips officer sarah sharma is one among them who takes her job seriously as a public officer and leaves no stones unturned to reach out to the masses for the better enforcement of law her initiative of starting she team that aims at ensuring safety and security of women and children in the district has been hailed by one and all she team has been assigned tasks to conduct patrolling in schools colleges and other institutions frequently visited by girls and women a woman officer of multiple talents she even sings awareness songs for this campaign she is an inspiration for thousands of young girls and womendr gayatribala pandadr gayatribala panda is a well known odia poet fiction writer literary critic journalist and editor she was awarded with kendra sahitya akademi yuva puraskar in odia for her poetry collection gaanthe village in 2011 in 2012 she was named as one of the ten best young writers in the country by a leading english daily she was the first odia to get selected for the writers inresidence programme at the rashtrapati bhavan for 2015 she started writing at an early age of six and her work was published in many leading odia journals starting her career as a journalist in a leading odia daily dr panda is now an editor cum publisher of a widely acclaimed literary quarterly anyaa and also working as a freelance journalistbaijayanti sahoobaijayanti sahoo is one of the most successful business women in odisha with her charismatic leadership she has been managing six different companies as a director and more importantly all these firms are wellestablished in sectors such as it real estate education and consultancy to add to her business acumen she has successfully