Tag: Odisha Budget 2021

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha council of ministers on Tuesday approved the annual State budget for 2021-22 financial year which will be tabled in the State Assembly on February 22. The annual State budget having a total outlay of Rs 1.70 lakh crore has been approved by the cabinet. However, no official briefing was made on the […]

Bhubaneswar: Even as the State cabinet has finalised the contours of Odisha’s post-pandemic budget with a total expenditure plan of Rs 1.7 lakh crore, the state of finances as on January end indicates a deceleration of the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) in the current financial year ending on March 31, 2021. Highly placed sources […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha has not been a big spender when it comes to human development, despite the State figuring in the bottom -10 in the Oxford Human Development Initiative’s Multi-Dimensional Poverty Index 2020, where the indices of ranking are health, education, water and sanitation. As per an analysis by the Policy Research Studies (PRS), the average […]

Bhubaneswar: Opposition BJP and Congress staged walkout in the first day of Budget session of Odisha Assembly opposing Governor Prof Ganeshi Lal’s address. Soon after the House assembled for the day, Congress MLAs created ruckus by raising the border controversy with Andhra Pradesh over Kotia villages. Later, they staged walkout while the Governor appreciated the […]

Bhubaneswar: In his inaugural address at the beginning of the Odisha Assembly’s budget session on Thursday, Governor Ganeshi Lal patted the State Government for its ‘pro-active management’ of COVID-19 but the word ‘Covid Warriors’ finds a solitary mention in the long 1-hour speech. “The  State has done extremely well in every parameter of  Covid management […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari on Monday presented the annual budget in the State Assembly for 2021-22 financial year with an outlay of Rs 1.7 lakh crore, an increase of around 13 per cent compared to the previous fiscal. “We propose a larger budgetary outlay of Rs 1,70,000 crore for 2021-22 which includes an […]

Bhubaneswar: Soon after Odisha Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari presented the Rs 1,70,00 crore budget for the financial year 2021-22 in the Odisha Assembly on Monday, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik termed it as ‘pro-people, pro-growth and transformative.’ In a tweet, Patnaik wrote, “OdishaBudget2021 is a pro-people, pro-growth and transformative budget in our journey towards “New Odisha […]