Members of all bar associations in Western Odisha under the central action committee will reportedly take out a rally from Master Canteen to Lok Seva Bhawan.
While the logic says that a development council formed for a particular geographical region should naturally have its office in the same zone, in the case of WODC, the sense seems to have flawed because, the headquarters of the WODC is located at Bhubaneswar, far away from Western Odisha.
People in western Odisha celebrated the most important agrarian and social festival Nuakhai, which began on Thursday. This year, the festival is being celebrated with pomp and grandeur.
Earlier, the State government had also announced that the banks will remain closed on September 1 on the occasion of Nuakhai festival.
In the Odisha government's holiday list, only the day of the festival is mentioned as the holiday.
Following traditional puja at the Brahmapura temple in Sambalpur city, priests finalised the lagna, a day after the Janmashtami yesterday. As per the tradition, the Nuakhai is celebrated on ‘Panchami tithi’ of the Odia month of Bhadraba.
In the newly-formed cabinet, as many as seven MLAs from the Western Odisha have been given important ministerial berths.
Asked about the newly formed Council of Ministers where Western Odisha had no less than seven ministers (5 Cabinet, 2 MoS), Pattanayak said this is nothing more than vote bank politics which is the forte of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD).
There will be no large change in maximum temperature during the next 24 hours.
The WODC was established with an objective for all round socio-economic upliftment, educational and cultural advancement of the people residing within the area.
At a time when guarding the paddy is a problem for them, the hailstorm lashing the area for last three days only made the situation worse.
Both the Ministers demanded the Center to take immediate steps to address the issue helping people of Western Odisha get PMAY benefits.
Sambalpur: The on-going lawyers’ strike over establishment of Orissa High Court bench in western Odisha has now started to adversely affect the banking services in several parts including Sambalpur. Several banks in the district are staring at losses owing to complete stoppage in the disbursal of fresh loans in the past couple of months. As […]
Bhubaneswar: Rail traffic was badly hit in many parts of western Odisha today due to the 48-hour ‘Maha bandh’ called by the bar associations of different districts over their long-term demands of a permanent High Court bench in the region. In view of Rail Roko agitation at Sambalpur, Hirakud, Sambalpur City several trains have been […]
Sambalpur: Augmenting the demand for establishment of a High Court bench in Western Odisha, the agitating lawyers today launched a cease-work strike in all courts in the western parts of the State. The strike will continue till September 26, informed Central Action Committee chief convenor Ashok Das. As per a decision taken by the Central […]
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