Barfi pink, bright blue, deep ochre, violet and saturated orange; etchings and paintings of gods and goddesses; green parrots flying on a wall; home of the Odissi dance; lush greenery — welcome to Raghurajpur in Puri district, home to over…
Inspiring Story : Son of Daily Wage Labourer from Jagatsinghpur cracks IIT JEE Advanced
Bikash Das, son of a farm labourer, has clinched 582 rank in the SC category and is now eligible for a seat in the IIT. A student of the village’s Manapur Upper Primary School, Bikash passed the HSC exam from the…
In a first, Odisha develops bank mapping portal for financial inclusion
In the first initiative of its kind in the country, Odisha Space Applications Centre (ORSAC), the apex body for space technology applications in the state, has developed an exclusive portal to map the banking system in the state.The portal was…
Odisha Government decides to have a Public Health Officer in each block, 578 posts of doctors for same has been marked
Giving priority to preventive healthcare, the state government on Thursday changed the cadres of doctors to have block public health officer in each of the 314 blocks. The total number of doctor posts in the government rose by 1330 from…
Industrial Energy Ltd (Tata Steel & Tata Power JV) launches solar micro grid project in Odisha
Industrial Energy Limited (IEL), a joint venture of Tata Power and Tata Steel, today inaugurated a solar micro grid project at Baliapal village in Kalinganagar in Odisha. The project will benefit 255 people at Baliapal village with uninterrupted power. The…
Milk Mantra now partners with National Skill Development Corporation to continue to build rural ecosystem in Odisha
Milk Mantra along with LabourNet, an NSDC (National Skill Development Corporation) partner has recently organised a three day Prior Learning Program under Prime Minister Kaushal Vikash Yojana (PMKVY) for its network farmers. This was organised at Tinitiara village of Gop…
Odisha working towards 8 more Cashless Villages after the first one of Nuagaon
As per this article from Business Standard as the country gradually switches over to a more formal, cashless economy, villages in Odisha are catching up with other states. Having officially declared Nuagaon in Puri district as her first cashless village…
How 60,000 small borrowers from 6 villages in Odisha leading the way towards cashless transactions
In a first-of-its-kind initiative in micro-finance post-demonetisation, 60,000 small borrowers from six small villages in Odisha are leading the way towards cashless transactions. This was made possible thanks to a pilot done by Bharat Financial Inclusion (formerly SKS Microfinance) for…
Journey from MTech in IIT to Jobs in European countries to now Elections in Gram panchayat in Odisha
In the politically sensitive Kendrapara district of Odisha, an IIT alumni has quit his job and lucrative career to fight the rural body polls in Dumuka gram panchayat. Nihar Ranjan Beura (50), an alumni of IIT Kharagpur has set his…
Meet Arati Devi : From MBA, Banker to Sarpanch in a Odisha village, to represent India in USA in
Last five years were quite eventful for Arati Devi. Elected as country’s youngest sarpanch five years ago from Dhunkapada gram panchayat in Ganjam district, the 31-year-old MBA graduate has become a role model for many women in grass root level…