The diarrhoeal outbreak in Odisha has shown a marked improvement following two weeks of intensive efforts by the government machinery, including field-level staff, senior health officials confirmed on Friday.
Earlier today, the Sixth State Finance Commission called on the Chief Minister and sought his valuable suggestions for empowering the local bodies of the State.
Senior BJD leader and former minister Pramila Mallick alleged that incidents of rape, kidnapping, murder, and sexual assault involving women are frequently making headlines in newspapers and electronic media.
The approved projects span a wide range of sectors including plastics, technical textiles, textiles and apparel, ESDM, food processing, power and Renewable Energy, Tourism, Logistics and Infrastructure, Chemicals, and Steel, reflecting the state’s commitment to broad-based and inclusive industrial development, said officials.
It is being planned to start the same on a pilot basis in the Lok Seva Bhavan or the secretariat. Later, the system shall be expanded to all Government Offices across the State, said an official of the General Administration and Public Grievance Department.
A year on, a pertinent question that has come under debate is whether the Majhi-led government has delivered the goods in general and in the employment sector in particular despite claims by the present dispensation.
Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Majhi on Monday announced a substantial increase in ex-gratia compensation for human fatalities arising out of conflict with wild animals, from Rs 6 lakh to Rs 10 lakh.
With monsoon season round the corner, the state’s Health and Family Welfare Department has geared up its machinery to contain vector and water-borne diseases.
The Odisha government on Wednesday signed MoUs with leading national and international institutions working in the urban development ecosystem to launch ANKUR (Atal Network for Knowledge, Urbanization & Reform) in a bid to redefine the future of urban development in the state.
Acting on a petition moved by the human rights lawyer, Radhakanta Tripathy, the Commission issued notice and sought for the ATR within four weeks.
