Bhubaneswar: A meeting with regional heads of various banks was held at State Urban Development Agency (SUDA) conference hall here on Sunday to provide livelihood opportunity to urban street vendors through financial inclusion. The meeting was chaired by Sarada Prasad Panda, director SUDA and also joint secretary to Odisha government. Goutam Patra, GM and convener…
Bhubaneswar: In order to have a better understanding of the Jaga Mission programme, 16 IAS officers from Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, Gujarat and Maharashtra were on a visit to Odisha recently as part of Bharat Darshan programme. Jaga Mission,“world’s largest slum titling programme” focuses on empowerment of urban poor by providing land rights and upgrading slums…
Bhubaneswar: A group of 21 elected representatives and functionaries from Kozhikode and Palakkad Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) of Kerala were on a three-day exposure visit to Odisha recently. Centre for Environment and Development (CED), as a national training entity empanelled by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India, is organising this exposure…
Bhubaneswar: Odisha won three awards at the prestigious Annual India Sanitation Coalition (ISC)-FICCI Sanitation Awards 2022, held at New Delhi. Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) was awarded with the “Best Faecal Sludge and Septage Management (FSSM) Model – Urban,” and Sasmita Barik, a Swachha Sathi from Bhadrak Municipality was awarded with the “Women Changemaker in Sanitation”…
Bhubaneswar: A two-day training programme on mapping and developing urban water bodies was organised here on May 12 and 13. The Housing and Urban Development Department in collaboration with National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) conducted the training programme for corporators, ward officers, municipal engineers, city mission managers and community organisers and trained them about…
Bhubaneswar: Vendors on Thursday staged protest near Bhubaneswar railway station after an eviction drive was carried out in the area. Twenty-three polythene and bamboo-shed shops, 28 fast-food counters on trolleys and 32 mobile-vending shops selling fruits and other items were demolished despite heavy opposition by their owners, reported PTI. Also read: Kalinga Rail Heritage Museum…
