The Odisha Government has decided to launch a scheme for the conservation, renovation, reconstruction and management of temples and mutts for preserving these places of cultural significance for posterity.
The apex Court has mandated award of compensation to the families of those who die while performing such hazardous tasks, irrespective of whether the employment was in the private or public sector.
Bishnupada Sethi, Principal Secretary of the Odia Language, Literature, and Culture Department, participated in the meeting and discussed with Google India representatives how Odia could be accurately presented online.
The Odisha Government has extended maternity and paternity leave to State Government employees opting for surrogacy parenthood, an official of the Finance department said.
Buckling to mounting pressure amid nationwide outrage, the Odisha Government has ordered a judicial probe into the alleged custodial abuse of a serving Army officer and his fiancée in a Bhubaneswar police station on 15 September.
State’s Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak, in a letter to Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Piyush Goyal, sought his intervention in this regard.
ArcelorMittal Group had earlier decided to set up a mega steel project in Keonjhar district in 2014 but backed out following protests from local people.
Officials of the Health and Family Welfare Department said two separate notifications have been issued in this regard to extending mental healthcare to prison inmates. Filling up the backlog of vacancies for the posts of psychiatric specialists and clinical psychologists is being carried out on a regular basis, they said.
The State Government Odisha in September, announced a hike in Dearness Allowance (DA) for favour of State Government employees under the Revised Scales of Pay Rules (OSRP), 2017.
The move to establish NCDC has been initiated to strengthen the surveillance and public health infrastructure in the State, senior health department officials said on Thursday.
