Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday said that the low conviction rate continues to be an area of concern and asked police personnel to take all possible steps to enhance conviction rate by factoring in modern technology into the investigation.
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Express News Service reported that expressing concern over the delay in commissioning production of the auctioned coal blocks, the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry has urged the State government to set up a dedicated cell to monitor the progress and sort out issues relating to land acquisition and expeditious approval of statutory clearances. FICCI Secretary General Mr Dilip Chenoy wrote to Odisha’s Chief Secretary Mr Suresh Mahapatra “I would take this opportunity to bring to your kind notice that 12 coal mines have been allocated and auctioned in Odisha since 2015 having production capacity of 97 million tonne per annum which will generate revenue of over INR 7,000 crore every year for the State exchequer, creating over 1 lakh direct and indirect local jobs.”
Women Self Help groups get Rs 3,500 crore government business amid Covid pandemic
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BHUBANESWAR: Even as a large number of informal workers lost their livelihoods due to the pandemic, the State government provided business worth Rs 3,583.34 crore to women self help groups (WSHGs) in the last two years.
Rising to the extraordinary challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic, around nine lakh members of 83,000 SHGs did business with different departments of the State government. “The total government business through 20,449 WSHGs touched Rs 1,411.82 crore in 2019-20 thereby recording an achievement of around 141 per cent in the first year. In 2020-21, the business volume increased to Rs 2,172.02 crore and the achievement was 217 per cent. The number of WSHGs involved are 62,514,
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