Tag: Rural Development Department

The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) is flagship project in India to provide good all-weather road connectivity to unconnected villages. The project has failed to serve its purpose at Jeypore in Koraput with OTV exposing chinks in the yojana thanks to Rural Department.

A viral photo of some students reportedly of Ravenshaw University in Cuttack taking classes on floor sparked a row.

Bargarh: Already being suspended by the Rural Development department, Assistant Executive Engineer Kamalakanta Taria and Junior Engineer Manoranjan Mohapatra were arrested today in connection with the collapse of under-construction bridge near Bheden in Bargarh district that left five injured on Sunday. Hours after the mishap, Rural Development Department placed Executive Engineer Amulya Mohapatra along with […]

Bolangir: The vigilance sleuths on Friday arrested the executive engineer of Rural development department on his way to Angul with hefty sums allegedly acquired illegally. RD engineer Debendra Patnaik was going to his house in Angul in a scorpio vehicle with Rs 4.58 lakh cash. The anti graft sleuths seized the money after the accused […]

Malkangiri: Vigilance sleuths arrested the executive engineer of the Rural Development (RD) department in Malkangiri today. The officials conducted a raid at Mathili and seized Rs 7.5 lakh in cash from the car. The officials detained executive engineer Ranesh Chandra Jaal and a contractor from the car. Vigilance is investigating the source of the huge […]

Koraput: A controversy erupted after two government officials were assigned the same post at the office of Superintending Engineer of Roads and Buildings Department in Koraput. The controversy has reportedly led to a dispute between the two officials. On July 29, Executive Engineer of Roads and Buildings Department, Arun Sahoo, had come to take charge […]

Bhubaneswar: The State’s Rural Development department will come under the purview of ‘Mo Sarkar’ from February 2020, RD department secretary Pradeep kumar Jena informed Wednesday. As per Jena, as many as 4300 villages lack road connectivity in Odisha and after the inclusion of the department in Mo Sarkar, many new roads will be built while […]