OPSC Prelims and Mains Notes-OPSC Test Series
ODISHA Odisha to be nerve centre of Purvodaya in steel’ Minister of petroleum and natural gas and steel Dharmendra Pradhan has said that with Japan as the partner country, he is looking forward to making Odisha, the nerve centre of Purvodaya in steel sector. It has participated in the workshop on “Enabling Procedures for Increase of … Read more
ODISHA Odisha govt approves two investment projects worth Rs 563 crore The state government on Friday approved two investment proposals in plastics and aluminium downstream sectors worth Rs 563 crore, which will create employment opportunities for as many as 1,273 people. The state-level single window clearance authority headed by chief secretary Asit Tripathy cleared the proposals in its … Read more
ODISHA Over 34,000 Odisha schools lack toilet, drinking water As many as 90 schools in Odisha do not have blackboards and 34,394 schools have no toilet and drinking water facilities till March last year. Besides, 35,769 schools have no electricity till 2018 -19 financial year, School and Mass Education Minister Samir Ranjan … Read more
ODISHA 3 varsities to come up next year The State Government has proposals for establishing Kalahandi University’ at Bhawanipatna, Rajendra University at Balangir and Madhusudan Law University at Cuttack during 2020-21 academic year. Higher Education Minister Arun Kumar Sahoo informed this in the State Assembly in response to a question of BJD member Bhupinder … Read more
ODISHA Naveen Patnaik announces special department for women SHGs in Odisha The state government will have a separate Mission Shakti department that would exclusively work for around 70 lakh rural women associated with nearly six lakh women self-help groups (SHGs) created under the Mission Shakti movement. Creation of a separate administrative department is aimed to work with more focus … Read more
ODISHA Establish fire stations on distance criteria Inclusion of all police stations under the 5T initiative to provide citizen-centric service under the Mo Sarkar scheme is quite effective. There is a need of provision of adequate amount of funds under the “Other Contingency” unit for 587 PSs. A Standing Committee report on … Read more