The Odisha Cabinet has approved as many as 33 proposals in various sectors on 22 September 2022.
The cabinet meeting chaired by the CM Naveen Patnaik had cleared these proposals pertaining to departments like Water Resources, Law, Electronic and IT, Sports and Youth Services, Tourism, Industry, Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare, Health and Family Welfare, Cooperation, Revenue and Disaster Management, Excise, Home, Steel and Mines, and Works.
Of the approved proposals include, financial bids for construction of 40 Lift Irrigation Schemes with intake points on different rivers in the districts of Keonjhar, Kalahandi, Bolangir, Bargarh, Gajpati, Jajpur, Kendrapara, Angul and Cuttack.
The financial bids for execution of pressurized underground pipeline (UGPL) irrigation network system for left command of lower Suktel irrigation project with the distribution network was also approved.
Among the other proposals include, the sanction of lease of 5 acres of Government land free of premium for the establishment of Central Research Institute in Homeopathy (CIRH), 50 acres of land in favour of Rajendra University for infrastructure development, and 3.125 acres of land for the establishment of National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
The cabinet also approved the proposal for 15 per cent reservation of seats in Government Physical Education Colleges for the students staying in Government sports hostels along with revised funding for the state level Sports Infrastructure Development scheme.
