Governance

Bhubaneswar: The State Budget for 2024-25 fiscal is likely to touch Rs 3 lakh crore, around Rs 50,000 crore more than that projected by the previous BJD government. The budget was finalised at a meeting of the Council of Ministers chaired…
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Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Thursday appointed senior IAS officer Roopa Roshan Sahoo as Commissioner-cum-secretary of ST & SC Development, Minorities & Backward Classes Welfare Department full-time. A notification has…
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Bhubaneswar: Odisha may soon witness ‘bulldozer action’ as adopted in states like Uttar Pradesh with the government on Wednesday warning that illegal constructions made on government land in will be demolished. Speaking on the state…
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Bhubaneswar: Odisha is among the 10 top gainer states in SDG India Index 2023 released by NITI Aayog recently. It has improved sustainable development goal (SDG) score by 15 points during 2018 to 2023-24 period. “Top Gainer States…
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Bhubaneswar: Chief Secretary Manoj Ahuja has been given additional charge of Chairman, Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB). “Manoj Ahuja, IAS (RR-1990), Chief Secretary, Odisha and Secretary to Government, General…
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Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Monday transferred and posted Assistant Section Officer, Parliamentary Affairs Department, Baikuntha Pradhan to Home Department. He was deployed at Governor’s Secretariat. Pradhan had recently…
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Bhubaneswar: Senior IPS officer D S Kutey, who was suspended by Election Commission of India (ECI) and later reinstated, was on Monday posted as Officer on Special Duty (OSD), Home Department. On May 28, Kutey, who was serving as…
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Bhubaneswar: Plans are afoot to decentralise Chief Minister’s grievance cell and hold public hearing outside Bhubaneswar also to ensure speedy redressal of people’s problems. This was stated by Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi during his…
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Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi will resume the public hearing at the designated venue in Bhubaneswar from July 15. A notification, issued by the General Administration and Public Grievance (GA&PG) department on…
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Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Thursday transferred IPS officer Ashish Kumar Singh and posted him as OSD in the Home Department. A notification issued by the department stated that Singh, a 2004-batch IPS officer is transferred and…
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