Politician Promise

A milestone: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik with Damodar Acharya, Director IIT Kharagpur, at the fist anniversary of IIT in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday. — BHUBANESWAR: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday said the State government would extend all help for the establishment of the campus of Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar at Arugul on the [...]

It seems that Chief Minister Naveen Pattnaik has forgotten the promises  made by him to the 17 martyr’s police  families who lost their  earning members in a tragic landmine blast triggered by the Maoists at M.P.V-126 on July 16 last year. It was said to be the state’s biggest Maoist attack.A year has been passed [...]

Daringbadi Block (DB) of Kandhamal district has become highly infamous for innumerable cases of malnutrition, starvation and infectious diseases, at the onset of each monsoon. The government and the local administration tend to furnish make-believe estimates of amounts spent on the development of these poor people, running into lakhs. The government’s Food Security Report (FSR), on [...]

They demand compensation for brinjal plantations damaged by forest officials BERHAMPUR: Armed tribals and dalits gheraoed the forest office at Asurabandha under Surada forest range in Ganjam district on Friday. They were demanding compensation for their brinjal plantation that the forest officials had destroyed on Tuesday. The forest officials posted at this forest office on Sorada-Daringbadi road [...]

PHULBANI (Orissa): Promising alleviation of poverty among tribal communities within next five years, Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday dubbed both BJP and the Congress as hurdles before Orissa’s progress. Addressing a series of election meetings in communally sensitive Kandhamal district, the ruling BJD supremo said ratio of poverty had come down among tribals and dalits [...]

BHUBANESWAR: It’s raining freebies in the State in the run up to the polls and salt and dal were the latest additions to the list. The Baratiya Janata Party on Monday said that if voted to power in the State it would provide rice at Rs. 1 per kg to all below poverty line families [...]

BHUBANESWAR, FEB. 12. The BJD-BJP alliance in Orissa has promised to provide a clean and efficient administration if voted to power in the coming Assembly polls. The alliance would strive to make the State self-reliant and ensure all-round development. In its common-minimum programme released here today, the combine [...]