Historic Win for BJD in Civic polls; CM Naveen Patnaik thanks voters

Date: 20 Sept, 2013

Biju Janata Dal (BJD) has reaffirmed its hegemony in the urban local body (ULB) elections in the state by winning a clear majority in 41 municipalities and Notified Area Councils (NAC). BJD also won majority in Berhampur Municipal Corporation (BMC) with its candidates securing 24 of the 40 wards.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik congratulated all the winning candidates of the party and thanked the voters for reposing faith in his party. The credit for the good show goes to the good governance of the BJD Govt. and the clean image of our beloved and visionary CM Sri Naveen Patnaik. People are happy with the development and welfare activities carried out by the government led by him, and hence their blessings to BJD. The poll results definitely will have an impact in the assembly and Lok Sabha elections due next year. Voters have justly punished the corrupt Congress and its culture of nepotism, hypocrisy and above all its anti-Odisha mind-set.

Odisha top investment destination in India

Date: 14 Sept, 2013
As per the latest data released by RBI, Odisha has emerged as the top-most investment destination in the country for new projects, managing to garner about Rs. 53,000 crore, a 27% share of all-India investments.

This has been possible due to the various investment friendly policies, transparent and clean governance, and profuse improvement in the infrastructure in the state in the last decade, under the able leadership of the CM of the state Sri Naveen Patnaik. The BJD government of Odisha has initiated several steps in the recent past to improve investment climate, and has put Odisha on the fast-track trajectory of development.

The results are visible to all in the form of large-scale jobs creation, improvement in the living standard of the people of Odisha, reduction in poverty and migration to others states and overall improvement in all socio-economic indicators. Our visionary Chief Minister is constantly striving so that the benefits of these investments percolates down to the common man.

Union Tribal Affairs Minister Kishore Deo hatches conspiracy to shift ECoR Hq to Vishakapatnam

Date: 11 Sept, 2013
In yet another instance of the step-motherly attitude of Congress-led UPA government towards Odisha, Union Tribal Affairs Minister Kishore Chandra Deo has brazenly demanded shifting of the East Coast
Railways (ECoR) headquarters from Bhubaneswar to Vishakapatnam.

After 5 decades of struggle, a zonal Railways headquarters had been justly housed in the Odisha capital. However, the Minister, who hails from Andhra, has displayed a very parochial and petty mind-set in placing this demand, in order to deflect attention from internal Andhra politics and squabbling within the Congress party.

BJD youth wing President Sri Sanjay Das Burma has strongly condemned this consistent anti-Odia and anti-Odisha mindset of the Congress led Central Government, and its ministers. He has appealed to the people of Odisha to give a befitting reply to the anti-Odia Congress party in the forthcoming Urban body elections.

KBK Schemes affected by delay in release of funds by Centre

Date: 10 Sept, 2013
Implementation of a large number of development programs in the KBK districts have been affected because of the delay in the release of funds by the Central Government. Of the Rs. 250 crore sanctioned by Centre for KBK during 2011-12, only Rs. 130 crore was released, due to which major programs had to be curtailed. The Centre is also yet to approve the special package of Rs. 4550 crore submitted by KBK districts for the last so many years.

The State Government has, however, made a provision of Rs. 120 crore in its budget of 2013-14 for continuation of Biju KBK Yojana for the development of the backward KBK region. The State Government had launched KBK Yojana with finance from its own resources after the Centre curtailed funding under the KBK program.

With the Centre yet to approve several KBK development programs, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has taken up the matter of with PM Manmohan Singh & Dy Chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia several times.