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Bhubaneswar, Oct 29 (LocalWire): Odisha Legislative Assembly Speaker Surjya Narayan Patro now claimed that the Winter Session of the Odisha Assembly would be conducted before December 31 this year.

He told reporters that as per the norms, the Assembly is bound to seat 60 days a year.

The Speaker is now planning how to conduct the remaining 40 days of the Assembly sessions.

He also said that due to the existing Coronavirus crisis, the same preventive measures taken in the Monsoon Session would be replicated in the Winter Session too.

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Bhubaneswar, Oct 28 (LocalWire): The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) today lauded the fiscal management of the Odisha government in its study named-State Finances-A Study of Budgets 2020-21’.

“Given the lack of transparency with regard to states in reporting of some of these risks, efforts by Odisha in acknowledging, assessing and preparing in advance for such unforeseen risks could be worthy of emulation,” RBI said in a statement.

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Tirtol, Oct 28 (LocalWire): Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today held a virtual rally in poll bound Tirtol and interacted with the people of the assembly constituency.

In his virtual speech, the CM promised to visit the region and boasted about the development works carried out in the area like bridges on Mahanadi and priority given to education related works in the area.

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Bhubaneswar, Oct 27 (LocalWire): Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has now planned to virtually address the people of Balasore, ahead of the bypolls there.

BJD leader Pratap Jena today said that the CM would address the people there on October 29 at 4:30pm. The speech would be broadcast from TV screens installed in some areas and through mobile phones.

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Bhubaneswar, Oct 27 (LocalWire) : Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today launched a single portal to facilitate the students in applying for different types of scholarships from one source.

The website www.scholarship.odisha.gov.in is expected to be used to apply for 21 types of scholarships offered from six different departments of the state government.

This was claimed to be an initiative under the 5T governance of the government.

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