Tag: Special Category State

Bhubaneswar: Despite Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s reiteration that the Odisha government will continue to demand Special Category State (SCS) status, Planning and Convergence Minister Usha Devi today said Odisha does not meet two parameters required for special state status. Replying to a query from Congress legislator Kailash Chandra Kulesika, the minister informed the State Assembly […]

Bhubaneswar: Chief Miinister Naveen Patnaik today reiterated Odisha’s demands for special category status and criticised the Centre for not listening to its pleas. When the BJD and BJP were in alliance from 2000 to 2009 we had combinedly fought for the special category status to the state. But after splitting the alliance in 2009 we had […]