To honourMahatma Gandhis visit to the state in 1934, the site where the freedom fighter had taken a bath during hispadayatrain Kendrapada district then will be turned into a museum.
A khadi cloth sales counter, a photo gallery, a library and a conference hall will be part of the proposed museum.
The padayatra by Gandhi was one of the most important events in the countrys freedom struggle. He allowed dalits to enter temples in some villages during his long walk inOdishain 1934.
Nippon Steel Corporation (NSC) plans to build the world’s largest steel plant inOdisha, its president Eiji Hashimoto told chief ministerNaveen Patnaikin Tokyo.
AMNS India, a joint venture of Arcelor Mittal and Nippon Steel, is planning to invest Rs 1.02 lakh crore to establish a 24 million tonnes per annum state-of-the-art steel plant with sustainable technologies in Kendrapada, which will be bigger than Posco’s 23 MTPA steel mill in Gwangyang, South Korea, the world’s largest.
With increasing use of agricultural machinery especially tractors, demand for bullocks for agricultural purposes has gone down over the years. Official data shows the number of bullocks has decreased by 31 per cent in the last seven years in the state.
and animal Resources development (FARD) ministerRanendra Pratap Swaintold the assembly on Wednesday that requirement of bullocks has declined due to reduction in usage of the animals in ploughing and bullock carts.
Official sources in the FARD department said there were 43 lakh bullocks in 2012, but the total number has drastically fallen to 29.85 lakh in 2019.
Eminent financial analyst Rajib Sekhar Sahoo has advised the to go for a futuristic revenue generation approach.
While the State Government has been able to receive wide appreciation for its Prudent Financial Management, it needs to revisit its revenue generation policy, Sahoo has opined.
Sahoo said Odisha is among the handful of States that have posted revenue surplus for several years. The State continuously strives to enhance its fiscal sustainability and improve budget performance by strengthening a medium-term fiscal framework and improving budgetary transparency.
The major source of Own Non Tax Revenue is from the mining sector, which is volatile. With market fluctuation and imposition of stringent export duty, there was contraction in mining revenue for last few months. Now, it has increased of late thanks to the decision of Government of India to withdraw iron Ore export duty and the ease in market.
Most importantly, the mining sector is not a renewable one; so, more dependence on this sector for revenue generation is not advisable. Going for new sectors for generation of revenue and futuristic planning is needed for the State Government, which is pumping more and more Resources for development programmes
With an aim to facilitate air-connectivity to the northern parts of Odisha, the has sought early nod of DEFENCE Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for operation of the Amarda Roadairstripnear Rasagobindapur in Mayurbhanj district.
Chief secretarySuresh Chandra Mohapatrahas written toUniondefence secretary Ajay Kumar, requesting him to give necessary instruction to DRDO over issuance of no objection certificate (NOC) for the airstrip to be used by the state government. Flight operation from the airstrip is being proposed under the Centres Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS-UDAN).
The state government has requested DRDO several times to provide the NOC for the airstrip so that it could be used by commercial flights. However, there has been no response from DRDO so far for which the flight operation faces a stalemate, said Mohapatra in his letter.
The Union ministry of civil aviation has included the Bhubaneswar-Amarda road as a special RCS route under UDAN 4.1 on request of the state government. Gsec Monarch has been selected as the airline operator for the route where seven flights would ply per week.
For the first time, the higher Education department will provide access to e-Resources to universities and selected autonomous colleges in the state. The e-resources include research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, e-books and discovery service to libraries.
The department has signed agreements with aggregators likeEbscoand Elsevier to provide these Services for the benefit of students, scholars, researchers and faculty members of 32 autonomous colleges and 12 state public universities.
The institutions will get the access through theOdisha State Higher Education Council.
According to the plan, the council will give access toScienceDirectto universities only. ScienceDirect is a website, which provides access to a large bibliographic Database of scientific and medical publications of the publisher Elsevier.
Days after the Centre announced the distribution of free rice under the National Act (NFSA) for a year, the BJP asked the State Government to ensure that the ration reached the actual beneficiaries.
Expressing his gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for taking care of the food security need of 80 per cent of the countrys Population during the Covid-19 pandemic and thereafter, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday said around 3.25 lakh people of the state will be benefited.
The state government has the responsibility for proper distribution of this free rice to the beneficiaries. My expectation from the state government is that none of the beneficiaries will be deprived of the free food grain, Pradhan told reporters during the launch of 5G service in the city.
Earlier, food grains distributed under NFSA had some cost out of which 90 to 95 per cent was taken care of by the Centre while a minuscule amount was borne by the state government. As the Centre will now bear the entire cost of the ration, the state has the only responsibility for its proper distribution, he added.
A three-feet tall stone sculpture of goddess Marichi, a broken Buddha idol, a stone pillar and other objects were unearthed from the riverbed of the Baitarani nearKunjabiharipur villageinJajpur districtduring sand mining.
Some workers found the objects while digging sand from the dry riverbed. “We found stonesculptures, broken stone idols, old bricks and other objects during sand mining in the river. After the objects were discovered, villagers stopped the mining work and helped remove the artefacts from the riverbed,” said Manomohan Das, a local resident.
The development, according to researchers, indicates that the village and its nearby areas were part of Buddhist sites. “The size of the stone sculpture of goddess Marichi, discovered here, is similar to the Marichi sculptures of Lalitgiri, Ratnagiri and Udayagiri. We believe all the objects are the remnants of a Buddha stupa of the eighth century. Since third century BC till the medieval period, flourished in Odisha. But it is difficult to ascertain exactly which period these artefacts belong to until archaeological department officials examine them,” said Nrusingh Sahoo, a noted researcher.
People of tinyMaradavillage in Ganjam districts Polasara block have urged the to declare it a tourist spot as it has connections with the Puri Jagannath Temple.
A 300-year-old Jagannath Temple stands in Marada, underMathura panchayat, sans the sibling deities. The temple, a marvellous example of Kalinga architecture, served as the hiding place for the deities of the Puri temple during 1733-1735, when temples were being targeted by invaders for destruction.
Sevayats and researchers of the Jagannath cult, who visited the place to study connection of Marada with the Puri temple about 15 years ago, had suggested to spread awareness about the significance of the village, known asSarana Srikhetra.
The Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) has directed all higher secondary schools – which also double up as examination management hubs (EMHs) – to install CCTVs ahead of the annual HS examination-2023.The schools have been directed to put up CCTvs in their examination halls, rooms, labs and strong rooms of the EMHs by January 13 this year.
Despite a directive by the School and Mass Education department in 2018 which made CCTVs mandatory in all Plus II exam centre to check malpractice, around 461 higher secondary schools in the state do not have CCTVs in them. Such schools had been asked to install CCTV cameras of 2 megapixel in the examination hall by end of 2018 failing which the CHSE would cancel the examination centre of the college and shift it to other colleges where the CCTV cameras are installed. However, not all colleges followed the directive.