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In order to ensure timely payment of wages, whenever there is a delay in receipt of funds from the central government towards the payment of -wage liabilities, the state government has created a Revolving Fund' for payment of wages to the Job card holders within the stipulated time as a contingent measure, Patnaik pointed out.

Briefing about the implementation of various central schemes in Odisha, he said the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, through Ambedkar Foundation, is providing Rs 2.5 lakh for inter-caste marriages while the Odisha government too has a similar scheme but there is a need to promote it on a higher scale.

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today conducted an aerial survey of the flood-hit areas in Khordha, Puri, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur and Kendrapara. Following the survey, CM Naveen Patnaik announced 15-day relief to flood-affected people; and also directed for damage assessment within 7 days of floodwaters receding, and extension of assistance within 15 days.

In these 75 years, Odisha has shown the way how to rise to the challenges and achieved several milestones, says Odisha CM

The Chief Minister is leading a high-level delegation of senior officials of the Odisha government to Rome and Dubai.

The CM should have taken ministers in charge of Industries, Food Supplies or Revenue and Disaster Management departments along with him, the leaders opined. 

The Chief Minister also expressed gratitude towards the servitors who assisted the administration and pulled the chariots during the Covid-19 pandemic situation.

Patnaik left for New Delhi on Saturday, from where he will lead the delegation to Rome on June 20.

Reiterating that 'every life is precious', Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik asked the state admin to be prepared for all possible disasters.

The helpline with a toll free number 1962 will function round-the-clock and is expected to come to the rescue of stray animals in distress.

At the event, the CM is expected to urge investors to invest in bulk in Odisha.

The recent Srimandir heritage corridor row has landed the Odisha government in soup and has raised the eyebrows of many. 

Industries Minister Dibya Shankar Mishra said since 2020, the government "ensured grounding/inauguration of projects worth over Rs 30,000 crore, generating a potential employment of nearly 40,000 in the state".

Further, he said, the process for recruitment of over 1000 professors, associate professors and assistant professors in various disciplines in all the state universities has already started.

Stating that this has now become the BJD's new benchmark of political strength in the entire state, the BJD president urged his party leaders to utilise this strength strategically everywhere, so that they can fare much better than the last time in cooperative elections.