India jumped 14 places to the 63rd position on the World Bank’s ease of doing business ranking released on Thursday, riding high on the government’s flagship ”Make in India” scheme and other reforms attracting foreign investment. The country also figured…
A crack of lightning can illuminate the sky for an instant, but it often has a deadly impact here on earth. In Odisha, for example, lightning claims about 400 lives every year — more than that by any other natural…
From Monday, people need not run around the regional transport offices (RTOs) across Odisha to get learner’s licence (LL), vehicle fitness certificate and goods carriage permit. They can download the three kinds of original documents from www.parivahan.gov.in, a website of…
Odisha becomes India’s first state to issue land records in DigiLocker. The state Revenue Dept issued 1.8 crore digitized Record of Rights (RoR) & Registered Sale/Gift deeds (since 2010) in DigiLocker. DigiLocker users from Odisha can start using this!
Odisha will get three Passport Seva Kendras (PSK) within a fortnight and 20 such facilities by the end of 2018. The secretary for Consular, Passport, Visa and Overseas Indian Affairs of External Affairs Ministry, Dnyaneshwar Mulay said that the three…
In another effort of improving delivery of public services by using social media, the state government in association with Facebook organized a workshop here on Tuesday for the bureaucrats and senior officers. As all government departments, collectorates and SP offices…
Odisha vigilance department has launched a war against corruption at the grassroots level, apparently inspired by chief minister Naveen Patnaik’s call to end percentage business at the collector’s conference in Bhubaneswar last month. Targeting housing schemes meant for the poor…
Technology solution providers Dell, IBM, HP have evinced interest to develop a world-class data centre to be established in Odisha by Software Technology Parks of India (STPI). Apart from these technology firms, engineering company Sterling and Wilson and infrastructure development…
Chief secretary AP Padhi on Tuesday directed district collectors to open official Facebook and Twitter accounts at the district level to receive complaints and get feedback from people. Reviewing implementation of different schemes as part of the workshop on improving…
Come July, Odisha can warn the vast population residing along its 480 km-long coast by pressing a single button from a control room in the State capital in the event of the occurrence of natural disasters like a tsunami or…