30-12-22 Daily-Odisha-OPSC Current Affairs

The has reduced land acquisition contingency from 20 per cent to seven per cent of cost of acquisition for facilitating smooth transfer of land for industrial projects under Make-in-Odisha initiative.

As per the new provision, five per cent of the estimated cost of land acquired directly will go to government account while two per cent will be retained in the bank account of the district collector or special land acquisition officer. Of the two per cent, 0.10 per cent will be transferred to Revenue and Disaster Management department and 0.20 per cent to the revenue divisional commissioner (RDC) concerned.

In case of land acquired through IDCO, 3.5 per cent of the cost will be retained by the state Psu while two per cent will be transferred to the account of collector and 1.5 per cent to government treasury.

1,920 unstarred questions were answered in the 13 sittings, while 82 starred questions were resolved.

After 28 hours of debate in which 160 members participated, nine bills were ultimately passed or returned during the session.

Although the term House of Elders is not listed in the official lexicon, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar had noted in my opening address on December 7 that it adequately captured the significance of this institution.

The law also abolishes a restriction that banned lesbian couples from registering their children under both parents names and forbids the use of so-called conversion therapies to repress sexual orientation or gender identity.

Up until recently, transgender individuals required the diagnosis of gender dysphoria, a psychological disorder in which the patient does not feel that their biological sex matches their gender identity.