Tag: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik

Bhubaneswar: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday laid the foundation stones of various projects and inaugurated a number of development projects in the Odisha capital.

New Delhi: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday expressed grave concern over the inordinate delay in the release of Central assistance and sanction of key projects in the Maoist prone and remote districts of Odisha.

Keonjhar: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday announced that the state government will set up a new government medical college in the district.

Paradip: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today gave credit to former chief minister Biju Patnaik for the setting up of IOCL refinery at Paradip.

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Wednesday asked the Centre to release the pending quota of food-grains under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) for the period from November 2015 to January 2016. In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said the Centre released less food grains than the requirements of […]

Odisha government has decided to bring in a special policy to encourage and facilitate investments in start-ups in the State, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik told a delagtion from US-based TiE Silicon Valley during a meeting at the State Secretariat today

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik might have launched the free medicine distribution scheme ‘Niramaya’ with much fanfare, but the government hospitals in the State are not yet ready to don the mantle of distributing the medicine to the needy

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched the Odisha Girls’ Incentive Programme (OGIP) here on Monday which according to officials will benefit around 2.5 lakh SC and ST girl students in the State. The scheme has been designed to encourage more and more SC and ST girl students to pursue Class IX and X by reducing

Following the order of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, a three-member team led by the Chief Conservator of Forest reached Kotpad in the Koraput district on Monday to investigate the bear attack case in which eight people were killed in the last two days.

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday launched a common city payment card system “Odyssey City Card” for Bhubaneswar. As a joint initiative of the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, Bhubaneswar Smart City Ltd and the ICICI Bank, the card will facilitate payment transactions for citizen services across the city. The services include shopping, city bus, recreation, […]

Bhubaneswar: A French business delegation led by Alexandre Ziegler, Ambassador of France to India, on Saturday met Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to explore investment opportunities in the state. The Chief Minister requested the French companies to invest in the state and participate in the second ‘Make in Odisha conclave’ scheduled to be held in […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday launched the Startup India-Odisha Yatra. The Chief Minister said the Yatra van would travel to 60 educational institutions across the 16 districts of the state. He said selected ideas would be put to three days intensive acceleration programme and the best 50 innovators would be provided incubation and […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today inaugurated a new programme for the rural people on the occasion of ‘Panchayati Raj Divas’ in the state and sanctioned development projects worth Rs 2 crore. As part of the “Ama Gaon, Ama Vikas’ (our village, our development) programme, Patnaik will be interacting with the panchayat representatives and […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has asked officials to pay cost of paddy to farmers within 24 hours through cooperative banks and within 72 hours through other banks. Issuing directions during a review meeting of the ongoing paddy procurement programme, Patnaik directed the officials to ensure that all mandis remain open during paddy procurement. […]

Bhubaneswar: On the eve of the Biju Janata Dal’s 20th foundation day, party president and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today said regional parties should have better coordination to strengthen cooperative federalism. “It is important to have coordination among regional parties for strengthening cooperative federalism,” Patnaik told PTI in an interview here. Asked whether the […]