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Chief Minister !"!#$#%&'() ! #$ % $ &'(&)*+ /0!& ! ## "# "$ $) ( ' > 1<=/ $ !$"#!$ # a gap of nine years. It will further from the SPF is less than market increase in coming years as the borrowing. he Rajendra College here ! $: State Government is forced to go The National Small Savings Twould be soon upgraded for more loans from market. At Fund (NSSF) is another source ( (@ /<2 to a university, announced ( '@' 1? / least 75 per cent of loan is raised for the State Government to raise Chief Minister Naveen from open markets by the State loans, but these loans are high hief Minister Naveen Patnaik while addressing a ith grants and loans from Government. cost loans. So, the State CPatnaik on Thursday laid conclave of Biju Yuva Vahini Wthe Union Government Loans from the Centre are Government has opted out of ( '@' 1? / second draft beneficiary list will foundation-stone for a cancer at the college ground here on getting squeezed continuously, hardly less than Rs 8,000 crore, NSSF as high cost borrowing is be released at all panchayat care hospital here besides Thursday. the State Government is forced while market borrowing is four not good for fiscal health of the total of 12,45,490 benefi- offices from January 25 to launching a slew of projects Patnaik said “The State to depend more on open market times of the debt from the State. Now, the NSSF loan is Aciaries of the KALIA December 3 (this year),” said worth 618.66 crore in the dis- Government is seriously con- borrowings. An analysis of the Centre. Reduction in Central about Rs 10,000 crore; and slow- scheme would get monetary the Cooperation Secretary. trict. sidering on upgradation of debt profile of the State borrowing is going down as ly these loans are repaid. The assistance in first phase at a Besides, the farmers can The hospital would be con- Rajendra College.” Government reveals that loans programme expenditure by the State Government is also going special function in Puri on also submit their grievances or structed at a cost of 145 crore, Sources said students of and advances from the Central Union Government is coming for negotiated loans as more Friday. suggestions, if any, at the pan- official sources said. the college were since long Government are going down, down except the Externally number of infrastructure pro- Chief Minister Naveen chayat offices through specif- The CM inaugurated six demanding for university tag whereas share of open market Aided Project (EAP). jects is taken up through the Patnaik would launch a direct ic forms, he added. lift irrigation projects in cost of 35.62 crore; Nidan for the institution. At the borrowings is on the rise. As on Loan from the State Rural Infrastructure benefit transfer (DBT) process Notably, the Government Jharsuguda and Lakhanpur Kendra at Jharsuguda worth Rs conclave, the youth activists March 31, 2018, the market Provident Fund (SPF) is now Rs Development Fund of Nabard. for distribution of the money at will provide financial assis- blocks built at a cost of 32 15 crore and irrigation project also put forth the long-pend- borrowing was highest among 21,700 crore and with less con- The negotiated loan amount a farmers’ conclave in Puri. tance of 25,000 to each ben- lakh. He also inaugurated two at Amati to be built at a cost of ing demand of college stu- other loans and were on the rise, tribution from the employees, it is more than Rs11,000 crore and Speaking to media here, eficiary in five phases. grid stations in Jharsuguda 18.22 crore. dents before the Chief which, have touched Rs 23, 530 is also going down. Decline in it is also on the rise as the State Cooperation Secretary Krishan Meanwhile, the and Kirimira blocks worth Rs He also distributed one- Minister. crore and it was only Rs 2,380 SPF contribution is because of is going for more number of Kumar said a list of the farm- Cooperative Department has 13 crore. crore digital empowerment The Chief Minister urged crore in 1995-96, sources gradual reduction in number of roads, bridges and other project ers to receive the monetary asked district officials to Patnaik laid foundation- incentive among 3,489 women the youths to work hard self- revealed. contributors to General for irrigation. In the meantime, assistance was prepared on ensure that names of large- stones for four mega water sup- Self-Help Groups (SHGs), lessly for the development of With slowing down of grants Provident Fund (GPF) as newly- the Government of India has Wednesday. scale farmers, retired ply projects in Jharsuguda social security benefits to 30 society. “Let your selfless ser- from the Government of India recruited employees are not con- passed on Accelerated Irrigation “Around 65 lakh farmers, Government employees and Sadar, Kolabira, Kirmira and beneficiaries, assistance to vice to society be your iden- since 2014-15, share of market tributing to GPF. These employ- Benefit Programme (AIBP) as including landless and small Government and PSU employ- Laikera blocks costing 388 1,422 Nirman Shramiks and tity, which would go a long borrowing in the debt profile of ees are governed under National loan to the State, which was a and marginal farmers, had ees are not enrolled in bene- crore; railway over bridge at land pattas to 1,002 landless way progress of the area and the State has been going up after Pension Scheme (NPS). So, loan grant altogether. applied in the green forms. The ficiary list. Choukipada at an estimated persons. State. N&!3#&O$ !& 3 # #&$!" *") + $# $#!$ ( '@' 1? / o educate students about Tdisciplines and sense of !"# responsibility towards the soci- ety, a State-wide Student Police Cadet (SPC) scheme was ( '@' 1? / launched by the State Government here on Thursday. s expected, former two- Development Atime Jharsuguda Congress Commissioner and Home MLA Naba Kishore Das for- Secretary Asit Kumar Tripathy mally joined the Biju Janata Dal inaugurating the programme at (BJD) at a public meeting at the Capital High School Jharsuguda in the presence of premises said the scheme would Chief Minister and BJD supre- , . !"! !#$ &'$ certainly help students inculcate mo Naveen Patnaik on (!&'&& )# O$+,&!! $ !&& discipline, social behaviour and nance of safe environment, he dents of Class VIII and X with State in a phased manner. Thursday. # $$$! #!#)$ #! many more other good habits. said. strength of 44 students in each Odisha is one among the A vast number of Das’ $&- !! ! $&!'$!. DGP Dr RP Sharma said Commissioner of Police school, including 50 per cent of very few leading States along supporters, including Zilla $&&# # -$/!0!)$ "01"2 the SPC scheme would help stu- Satyajit Mohanty spoke in detail girl students. with Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Parishad President and other '! 3 &"3 #.$!/"(.$# 1"' dents understand the role, con- about the SPC scheme and its The School and Mass Nadu and Telangana in imple- Panchayati Raj functionaries, "3 &(!")&!)#!(!".!&!!&# $$# straints and arduous nature of functioning. School Education Department has menting the SPC scheme. also joined the BJD on the & $#!& &# - police work and educate them Headmistress Sonamika Roy identified 40 schools for imple- The SPC programme is occasion. about disciplines and sense of also spoke. IGP and State Nodal mentation of the scheme, out of being contemplated as a long- Das had on January 16 Das also resigned from the /0 0/ /0!00+ * responsibility. It would also Officer of SPC Asheet Panigrahi which 33 are State-run schools term and constructive solution resigned from the primary post of MLA on the day. He , . $ help teaching them about team presided over the programme. and seven are Central schools. to major internal security chal- membership of the Congress sent his resignation letter to #!$!& #! spirit, increased respect for law, This SPC scheme is a two- The same scheme would be lenges recognised by the police party and announced his deci- State Assembly Speaker ! $ gender equality and mainte- year programme meant for stu- extended to other schools in the organisation. sion to join the BJD. Pradeep Amat. #!&#!& # & 1!&!!! 5###3 - #!N3!O7 8 $! ##&##! $ $ !##- ,.&#$# that Guru 1 #!$# #!# !##&# # - Nanak had ##O$ ! &## $ !#!:&##&!& 0#!1!O$, come to Puri a !$-! $$ ! # ; &!$$-3!& Q number of ! !$;#& # (! !<0 #1!&!!!- N3 $(!O times and rest- 3 $!" #!$!&!:! ##!$$$ ed in the mutt ##- $& for darhsan of /"*11 3/= Jaganath in the *0 ) +/0 )+ temple. , .. $=!&!#$!: !3 ( '@' 1? / issue of thousands of bogus he Sikh community would Jagadeep > & &?# &! & ,+# # # names in the list prepared for this Tpractise its limited rites Singh also !&# !:>2 ! !-. $>2#!& !& ll the schemes announced by scheme. Then in scrutiny, many and rituals in the Bauli Mutt informed that & # 3 $!. )#! & & # '###& Athe BJD Government have names were deleted for having situated near the sea beach of the trust is $ $ <#!&!$ # # !$&!<#- lost their tracks. While the real given false data. But many gen- Puri. going to orga- beneficiaries are deprived, false uine families are still not getting The Endowment nize the 550th ones are availing all the benefits. ration cards. Commissioner passed an Prakash The Government is giving this Patnaik said around 2 lakh order on January 1 allowing Jayanti (birth scope for promoting corruption. people who were included in the the Sikhs to accomplish their zation of Langur (mass feed- shrine,” said Bhai Jagadeep anniversary) of Guru Nanak This was alleged by PCC food security schemes have Seva Puja (rites and rituals) of ings) in the shrine. Besides Singh Ji, spokesperson of Dev from April 5 to 7 in a president Niranjan Patnaik in a died. But their names have not Sri Gurugranth Sahibiji inside these three, the trust enjoys no Gurudwara Arati Sahib of grand manner in Puri, where statement on Thursday. He said been deleted from the list and the shrine of the mutt. other right in the mutt. Puri in a Press meet told here.
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