Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Bibhu Dash & Others Vs Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation & Others dated 05/02/2024. The affidavit of the Odisha State Pollution Control Board stated that the STP cannot be constructed because the sewage outflow of Manorama Estates Welfare Society to their …
Bhubaneswar: India and Germany on Thursday signed agreements for a Rs 365 crore loan to develop urban infrastructure in Odisha. A new chapter has opened in urban infrastructure financing in the state with the execution of agreements between Government of India and KfW, Germany on the one hand and Government …
The Bubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has launched sanitation programme aimed at making the city clean before August 31, the Local Self-Governance Day. Mayor Ananta Narayan Jena in the presence of Municipal Commissioner Sanjib Misra, Deputy Mayor Bharti Singh and BMC’s Public Health Standing Committee Chairman Sheikh Nizamuddin kicked off the …
The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to bring 21 Gram Panchayat Offices (GPOs) and two revenue villages under its jurisdiction to enable the capital city get a metropolitan status. In a major decision at the BMC meeting on Monday, it was decided that the GPOs on the outskirts of …
The State Government, which is finalising its first ever parking policy for urban centres, is contemplating to tax multiple vehicle ownership as part of a host of enforcement and interventions it has planned. As the number of vehicles has witnessed a sharp rise in the last one decade after the …
The flagship programme undertaken by the BMC along with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) received a green signal as 21 proposed public toilets received location and land clearance. However the capital city with over eight lakh population, is yet to have a decent number of operational public or …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has decided to launch emergency medical ambulance service. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday approved the scheme to be implemented by the Health and Family Welfare Department. The Chief Minister has directed the Department to ensure proper implementation of the scheme in inaccessible tribal pockets of …
To give a boost to electronic hardware production, the state government will soon sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Taiwan based Hsinchu Science Park, one of the world’s renowned hubs for semiconductor manufacturing, for exchange of information and technology. “We may sign a MoU with Hsinchu Science Park within …
The State-level committee on Rashtriya Krishi Vikash Yojana (RKVY) sanctioned nine new projects under the second green revolution programme on Wednesday. The Ministry of Agriculture has sanctioned Rs 217 crore to the State under the Centrally-sponsored Bringing Green Revolution to Eastern India (BGREI) to bridge the yield gap in the …
Bhubaneswar: A year after the CBI probed into the irregularities across six districts of Orissa, a special performance audit of the implementation of the NREGS programme by the Comptroller and Auditor General has found misappropriation of funds through ghost workers, uneconomic execution of the works, delay in payment, and irregular …
Two years ago, Orissa was a power-surplus state with Energy department officials boasting that they could in fact sell power to other states. Not any longer. A pioneer in power sector reforms, Orissa was the first state to privatise its power distribution network. But thanks to zero investment by private …
Wild boar meat is being sold in Nagpur for Rs80 a kilo. Sambhar meat is available in Bhubaneswar for Rs100 a kilo. Meat of rare birds, including egrets, moor hen and a variety of wild water birds, is being sold openly in the streets of Puducherry while the meat of …
Ending the long wait, rains lashed large parts of the State prompting the weather office to announce the onset of southwest monsoon in Odisha. Late by more than a week, the showers brought the mercury level down and relief to a State tortured by an unrelenting heatwave. The downpour, which …
The multi-crore Odisha Integrated Sanitation Improvement Project will see the State Government create low-cost toilets and physical infrastructure in slums of the Twin Cities in the first phase. Under the Rs 945-crore project, which has already got underway, the Government has constituted a sanitation improvement team (SIT) and the first …
Bhubaneswar: The National Sample Survey (NSS) set up in 1950 by the Centre to collect socio-economic data employing scientific sampling methods, will start its 69th round from July 1. The survey will continue up to December 31 covering 9, 428 villages and 7, 684 urban blocks in the country. In …
Absence of a sewerage treatment plant in Bhubaneswar has led to release of urban and industrial effluents into the rivers untreated, in turn polluting the rivers from which Capital sources its drinking water, a latest study on sewage management has revealed. ‘Excreta Matters’ by Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment …
A fire in the dumping yard behind Sainik School on Thursday morning triggered a series of protests from the slum-dwellers adjacent to it, to get their long standing demands fulfilled. A fire broke out in the temporary dumping yard that the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) uses to dump garbage. The …
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Wednesday approved Rs 184.60-crore Annual Plan of Operations for Compensatory Afforestation Fund Managament and Planning Authority (CAMPA) for the financial year 2012-13. The approval came at a high-level review meeting presided over by chief secretary Bijay Kumar Patnaik at the State Secretariat here. A target …
Biomedical waste disposal in the SCB Medical College and Hospital has almost come to a standstill over the last week due to the breakdown in the incinerator since the hailstorm of May 28. The chimney of the incineration unit in the biomedical waste disposal facility was blown away in the …
Bhubaneswar:In a strong rebuttal to charges by Team Anna, coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal on Friday said that there was no scam in allocation of coal blocks and his department was not aware of any CAG report on the issue. There is no CAG (Comptroller and Auditor General) report with me. …
Jaiswal: Govt Inked Power Pacts Bhubaneswar: Union coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal on Friday denied any corruption in allocation of coal blocks, but said whether the allocated companies misused the coal can only be ascertained after an inquiry. “Successive governments pursued a policy of allocating coal blocks to private companies to …
