# Bhubaneshwar

PPT installs Smart Meters

The smart meter project has been implemented at Paradip Port Trust by M/s. Gram Power.

Statesman News Service | Paradip | December 22, 2020 2:28 pm

In a first in Odisha, the Paradip Port Trust introduced a smart meter project installed at the BPCL outlet in the city.

Rinkesh Roy, chairman PPT inaugurated the project in the presence of senior officers of the port.

The smart meter project has been implemented at Paradip Port Trust by M/s. Gram Power.

The smart meters offer complete transparency to the electricity consumers of PPT along with advantages like monitoring of real time energy consumption data to an hourly resolution, recharge the smart meters by payment through a mobile phone, see the payment history, etc. through a 24 X 7 Consumer Mobile App.

# India

NHRC seeks report on lack of toilet facilities in Anganwadi Centres in Odisha

The apex human rights panel, monitoring the complaint filed by human rights lawyer Radhakanta Tripathy, sought for submission of compliance report before 30 December.

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Five from nomadic tribes of Maharashtra murdered in Odisha

At least five people, including three women, all nomadic tribes from Maharashtra, were killed and four others injured as a group of assailants brutally hacked them to death in Odisha’s Sundargarh district, police said on Wednesday.

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25 Years On: Survivors of Odisha’s killer cyclone rebuild lives, haunted by unforgettable losses

Twenty-five years after the devastating super-cyclone of October 29-30, 1999, which tore through coastal Odisha, most survivors have managed to rebuild their lives despite the challenges of official insensitivity and bureaucratic delays