Tag: Odisha Assembly

Bhubaneswar: The Winter Session of the Odisha Assembly today began on a stormy note when Congress Chief Whip Tara Prasad Bahinipati along with Opposition legislators rushed to the House well demanding discontinuance of the Question Hour following which Speaker Niranjan Pujari adjourned the proceedings till 3 pm. As soon as the Question Hour began, Opposition […]

Bhubaneswar: Rich tributes were paid today to departed leaders and defence personnel on the first day of the winter session of the State Assembly today. The House observed a one-minute silent prayer in remembrance of former members of the Assembly Binod Bihari Singh Bariha, Laltendu Bidhyadhara Mohapatra, Gorsanga Sabara and Kanpur train mishap victim Captain […]

Bhubaneswar: The winter session of the Odisha Assembly will begin today and continue till December 31. According to reports, the session will have 24 workdays while the supplementary budget would be placed in the House on the first day of the session on December 1. The Appropriation Bill on First Supplementary Statement of Expenditure for […]

Bhubaneswar: Security is tightened in the State capital especially in and around the Odisha Assembly for the Winter Session beginning from December 1 with deployment of 35 platoons of police force. Informing newsmen about the security arrangements here, Twin City Police Commissioner YB Khurania said, “For the Winter Session, six officers of deputy commandant and […]

Bhubaneswar: With the month-long winter session of the Odisha Assembly beginning from December 1, the opposition Congress and BJP are ready to take on the government on a number of issues. “We will target the state government on a number of issues notably the Japanese Encephalitis in Malkangiri and the failure of the state government […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government today approved the supplementary budget for the year 2016-17 at a council of ministers meeting chaired by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. The total size of the budget is Rs 5,983.08 crore. While Rs 5126.04 crore was allocated for State plan expenditure, Rs 795.98 crore was approved for non plan expenditures. Also […]

Bhubaneswar: The opposition today came down heavily on the ruling BJD government over the statement by the party spokesperson Pratap Deb, who, while briefing the media on the step the state government has taken on Mahanadi issue, had said that most departments are used to provide wrong information to the State Assembly. “It was the […]

Bhubaneswar: The winter session of the Odisha Assembly would begin from December 1. A notification to this effect was issued by the Assembly Secretariat today after the formal approval of Governor SC Jamir. Informing media persons, Parliamentary Affairs minister Bikram Keshari Arukh said the supplementary budget for 2016-17 fiscal will be placed in the House […]

Bhubaneswar: In a major embarrassment to the ruling BJD, two ministers of the party in their written replies in Assembly on Tuesday furnished two different figures of the total number of families in Odisha. While Rural Development minister Badri Narayan Patra put the number of families in rural Odisha at 81,20,619, Panchayati Raj minister Arun […]

Bhubaneswar: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on the General and Social sector for the year ended 2014-15 revealed irregularities in various departments of the State government. Noting that a robust system for paddy procurement was absent in Odisha, the CAG today said Paddy Procurement Centres (PPC) were not functioning properly due to delay […]

Bhubaneswar: The monsoon session of the Odisha Assembly scheduled to begin tomorrow is most likely to be stormy. While the Opposition Congress and BJP will try to corner the government over the issues like the Mahanadi, Polavaram, Kandhamal firing, Nagada deaths, the ruling BJD has also prepared itself to counter the opposition onslaught. “The Congress […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha BJP will rake up the issue of deterioration of law and order in state during the upcoming monsoon session of the Assembly. At its legislature party meet today, the saffron party decided to raise the issue of attacks on Union minister, BJP MLA and its party members holding the ruling BJD responsible. […]

Bhubaneswar: Teachers under the banner of Block Grant Teachers’ and Employees’ Association on Friday threatened to hold demonstration in front of the State Assembly on September 22 protesting the state government’s move to introduce ‘Teach on Call’ system. According to sources, as many as 32,000 teachers and employees of 2,208 schools across the state will […]

The monsoon session of the Odisha Assembly would begin from September 21, a notification to this effect was issued by the State Assembly Secretariat today after a formal approval by Governor SC Jamir

The State Assembly will have a special session tomorrow to ratify the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill