Today on 21.07.2023, 62nd “Cabinet Meeting’ was held in the 3rd Floor Conference Hall of Lok Seva Bhawan, Bhubaneswar under the Chairmanship of Sri Naveen Patnaik, Chief Minister, Odisa. Hon’ble Ministers of the State Cabinet attended the meeting. The following total no of 17 proposals from 11 Departments were presented in the Cabinet Meeting and all have been approved .
Mission Shakti Department
1. Mission Shakti Scooter Yojana
Panchayatiraj & Drinking Water Department
2. Construction of Buildings for Vana Surakshya Samitis
Co-operation Department
3. Provision of 5700 Crore for "Interest Subsidy-Subvention to the Cooperative Banks / PACS for five years to ensure adequate credit flow in agriculture at an affordable interest to farmers"
4. Provision of funds for corpus funds for Procurement of oilseeds & pulses by SLS (MARKFED-Odisha) under Price Support Scheme (PSS)
Skill Development & Technical Education Department
5. Restructuring of Odisha Employment Service Cadre
General Administration & Public Grievances Department
6. Amendment of Combined Technical Services Recruitment Rules, 2022
7. Amendment of Combined Graduate Level Recruitment Examination for group-B and Group-C Specialists Posts or Service Rules 2022
8. Appointment of Prof Choudhury Suryakant Mishra and Sri Gauranga Charan Sahu as Members in Odisha Public Service Commission
9. Amendment of Combined graduate level Recruitment Examination for Group-B and Group-C of different State Cadre posts Service Rules, 2022
10. Approval of the Annual report of the Hon'ble Lokayukta, 2022
Tourism Department
11. Approval of Odisha Tourism Service Rules, 2023
Food Supply and Consumer Welfare Department
12. Framing of Odisha Civil Supplies Market Intelligence Service (Method of recruitment and Conditions of Service) Amendment Rules, 2023
Health & Family Welfare Department
13. Approval of Rs.1001.14 Crore for expanding Comprehensive Cancer Service across state. Eleven cancer care units will be built up
Works Department
14. Widening & strengthening of Marshaghai-Jamboo Road in Kendrapara
Water Resources Department
15.Mukhyamantri Canal Lininig Yojana
16. Proposal for extension of One Time Settlement Scheme of arrear water rates dues of Central/State PSUs, Central/State Government units, / organizations and Private Industrial, Commercial and other establishments.
Electronics & IT Department
17. Proposal for introduction of Odisha Semiconductor manufacturing and fabless policy to facilitate investors to enter into the manufacturing of semiconductor / electronics chips in the State of Odisha
After the meeting over, Hon’ble Minister, Smt. Tukuni Sahu, Hon’ble Minister Sri Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak briefed the press about 2 Nos and 1 no of decisions taken in the cabinet related to Mission Shakti Scooter Yojana, Approval of implementation of new scheme i.e Construction of building for Vana Surakshya Samiti(VSS) and interest subsidy/ Subvention to the Co-operative Banks/ PAACS relates to crop loan respectively.
There after Chief Secretary, Odisha Sri Pradeep Kumar Jena, IAS, briefed the Press about other 14 agenda items on which the decision taken in the Cabinet meeting.