Tag: Budget Session

Bhubaneswar: The first day of the Budget Session of the Odisha Assembly was adjourned after Congress MLAs staged a walkout protesting Governor SC Jamir’s address today. Congress MLAs created ruckus opposing the motion of thanks on Governor’s address. They stormed into the well and raised slogans protesting government’s ‘anti-farmer’ policies as well. Following the pandemonium, […]

Bhubaneswar: The Budget session of the Odisha Assembly starting tomorrow is likely to be a stormy one as the BJP and Congress are all set to corner the ruling BJD. The main Opposition party Congress and the BJP today held their legislature party meetings to chalk out strategies to target the Naveen government. While the […]

Bhubaneswar: A budget of Rs 1.20 lakh crores for the financial year 2018-19 was approved in a meeting of the State Council of Ministers on Wednesday with an emphasis given agriculture and infrastructure development sectors in rural pockets. Sources said the pro-poor budget has been made keeping in view the 2019 elections as government has […]

Bhubaneswar: The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) will raise Mahanadi tribunal, Polavaram, paddy MSP hike and other key issues in the upcoming second phase budget session in Parliament starting from March 5. This was decided at the parliamentary party meeting chaired by BJD president and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik at Naveen Nivas here on Saturday. […]

Bhubaneswar: The State is bearing Rs 7446.73 crore of revenue pending on various companies Finance Minister Pradip Amat said in a reply during question hour today while presenting the annual budget for the financial year 2017-18 here in the State Assembly. Specifying on the various dues, the minister said Rs 2085.96 crores of revenue is […]

Bhubaneswar: The State Cabinet has approved the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016, of the Central Government, informed Housing and Urban development minister Pushpendra Singh Deo in a Press Meet here today. Deo said that the Act will bring transparency in the sale and purchase of properties. He informed about formation of a Real […]

Bhubaneswar :  A debate on Governor SC Jamir’s opening speech delivered in the State Assembly during the Budget Session’s first day is likely to be held today. The Opposition has decided to corner the BJD alleging it had used the government machinery and money power in the recently held Panchayat Polls to benefit the ruling […]

Bhubaneswar: A three-tier security cover has been put on place in and around Odisha Assembly in view of the two phase budget session scheduled to begin today, Twin City Police Commissioner YB Khurania said. The commissioner along with Police DG KB Singh and State Intelligence Director took stock of elaborate arrangements here. Speaking to media […]

Bhubaneswar: The budget session of Odisha Assembly beginning tomorrow is most likely to be stormy. Though the Opposition Congress and BJP have formulated strategies to corner the government on a host of major issues, their common agenda will be the gross irregularities by the ruling BJD in the Panchayat polls which concluded today. “There has […]

Bhubaneswar: The Budget session of Odisha Assembly would begin from February 22. This was decided at the all-party meeting presided over by Speaker Niranjan Pujari here today. Talking to media persons after the meeting, Pujari said since the model code of conduct is in force for the ensuing Panchayat elections scheduled to kick off on […]

Bhubaneswar: The Federation of All Odisha Traders’ Associations (FAOTA) on Saturday agreed to call of its strike against the 5% ‘additional’ Value Addition Tax (VAT) being levied by the Odisha government on essential commodities. This was informed by Finance Minister Pradeep Amat after a meeting with the FAOTA members and other officials at the Secretariat […]

Bhubaneswar: Opposition BJP and Congress have termed governor SC Jamir’s address on the inaugural day of the budget session on Tuesday as ‘hopeless’. Alleging that the State government wanted to show only a ‘rosy picture’ about Odisha’s development and progress while the real picture is completely ‘negative’, the parities lambasted the ruling BJD for not […]

Bhubaneswar: The budget session of Odisha Assembly beginning on Tuesday is set to be a tumultuous affair, with the Opposition BJP and Congress ready to confront the Naveen Patnaik-government on issues including the ruling party leaders’ alleged links with criminal brothers Sushil and Sushant Dhalasamanta. The gangster siblings’ revelations to the police during interrogation about […]

New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha was on Friday adjourned sine die concluding the budget session, half of which was completely washed out in disruptions. The upper house worked for 45 hours in around 30 sittings and lost 120 hours in disruptions. In his valedictory remarks, Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu rued that he had little to say […]

New Delhi: The Lok Sabha was adjourned sine die on Friday morning bringing an end to the Budget session — half of which was completely washed out in disruptions. As the House met, AIADMK MPs protested near the Speaker Sumitra Mahajan’s podium demanding the setting up of the Cauvery Management board. Mahajan asked the MPs to […]