Bhubaneshwar (Odisha) [India], Mar 30 (ANI): Amid the countrywide lockdown, the Odisha Assembly on Monday passed the Appropriation Bill, 2020, allowing the State government to spend Rs 1.55 lakh crore from its consolidated fund for the fiscal year 2020-21.
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Mar 30 (ANI): Odisha government has set up 252 temporary camps in the state for 18,000 people stranded here and a 24x7 helpline number is functioning to facilitate these people in the view of coronavirus.
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Mar 30 (ANI): The Odisha Government has asked all the Collectors and Municipal Commissioners to stress on the surveillance of those returning to the state from abroad and other states, as a precautionary measure against the spread of the coronavirus.
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Mar 29 (ANI): Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to allow the State to use the MGNREGA fund and release the unemployment allowance to the accounts of MGNREGA active workers of the State.
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Mar 29 (ANI): As the lockdown imposes serious problems to the vulnerable sections of the society and also the stray animals and birds who are facing starvation, Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MP Achyuta Samanta has undertaken an initiative to feed the needy.
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Mar 29 (ANI): Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has announced that 100 to 200 destitute will be provided cooked food in every Gram Panchayat daily and Rs 3,000 as financial assistance to 65,000 registered street vendors in 114 urban areas of the state amid nation
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Mar 28 (ANI): Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday announced one-time relaxation in the promotion for the doctors under the Dynamic Assured Career Progression (DACP) scheme.
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Mar 28 (ANI): Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday announced cooked food for poor at Panchayat level and financial assistance of Rs 3,000 each for 65,000 registered street vendors in urban local bodies (ULBs) amid coronavirus lockdown.
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Mar 28 (ANI): The entire staff of the state Assembly have been quarantined and the Assembly building is being sanitized after an employee at Odisha Legislative Assembly was found to have contacted a COVID-19 positive person.
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Mar 27 (ANI): The Odisha government on Friday suspended Dr Lalit Behera, medical officer of state Assembly dispensary, after he came in contact with a COVID-19 patient.