The Regional Transport Office here has been directed to begin new LL applications from 20.11.2020 following COVID guidelines.
The decision was taken after the demand for slots came down in the RTO.
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People of Odisha my family and BJD’s high command: Naveen Patnaik
Sundargarh, April 10 (LocalWire): BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik today said the people of Odisha were his family and his party’s ‘high command’ while campaigning at Hemagiri in Sundargarh district.
Targeting the local MP Jual Oram, Patnaik said ‘a Union minister from the area doesn’t discuss the issues of the region with his high command. But for BJD, the people of Odisha are our high command.’
He also accused the BJP for trying to conspire and stop the state government’s KALIA scheme. ‘No one can stop the KALIA yojana till I am alive,’ the CM asserted.
He promised that if the BJD was voted to power, then on the first day of government formation, he would provide the farmers the second instalment of financial aid of Rs 10,000.
While criticising the Central leaders, Patnaik said they flock to the state only during the time of election. ‘They need to answer what happened to the promise of a second bridge on the Brahmani river and the super speciality hospital in Rourkela and why the scholarships to SC and ST students stopped?’ he asked.
By taunting the BJP’s ‘double engine’ mission, the CM reiterated that development of women issues was the actual ‘double engine’.
Later, while urging the people to vote for BJD candidates in the twin polls, Patnaik said he will serve them till his last breath.
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Sundergarh awaits a second multi-specialty hospital for seven years
Sundargarh, March 5 (LocalWire): The people residing in Sundergarh, the second-largest district in the state are at a loss when it comes to medical emergency as they are at the mercy of only one hospital.
In 2012, the Union power minister Sushil Kumar Shinde had promised a medical college and hospital for an estimated cost of Rs 400 crores to the people, who mostly live in the rural areas and consist of tribals.
The 500-seater residential college would consist of a 600-room hostel and a multi-speciality hospital with 500 beds.
It took five years for Shinde’s promise to show signs of fulfilment as the construction work of the said project began in a 21-acre land on August 15, 2017.
In this fiscal year’s budget, the Centre declared the upgradation of 24 district hospitals into Medical Colleges and Hospitals, which also included the IGH hospital in Rourkela and the under-construction NTPC project here.
Both these key medical projects lie in the dominion of Union tribal minister Jual Oram and are running way behind schedule though it has already been declared that the Medical College here, which is also awaiting a proper name, will be ready to admit students from the coming academic session.
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