Aiming to Boost Employment opportunity and Livelihood, Odisha Cabinet Approves 22 Major Proposals

Highlights:

IDCO to provide land for Tourism Projects like Hotels and Restaurants

Under Graduate Courses under OUAT to be recognized as Professional Courses

Anganwadi Students to get Shoes, Sucks and Sweaters

Rs 15 cr Guarantee Provided to Aska Cooperative Sugar Industries Limited to benefit Sugarcane farmers

Big boost to farming as contract farming legalised in state

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today approved as many as 22 vital proposals aiming at generation of employment opportunities and provide livelihood support to the people.

Addressing the media after the Cabinet and Council of Ministers meeting, Chief Secretary Asit Tripathy said, the Cabinet has approved the amendment proposal of Odisha Tourism Policy -2016. With the new proposal, the Odisha Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation or IDCO will provide the land for the tourism projects like hotel and restaurants.

Earlier both IDCO and the district collectors were providing lands for such projects. If no infrastructure development has done by the IDCO, the land will be provided at IPR rate.

The second important proposal that got the nod of the Cabinet is the under graduate courses in agriculture and allied activities under OUAT will be recognized as the professional courses, so that the employment opportunity of the undergraduates will go up, Tripathy added.

A pair of shoes and socks will be provided for 2019-20 and additional a sweater from 2020-21 will be provided to the 3-6 year old anganwadi students. The cost in the connection will be borne by the State fund.

To provide the support the sugarcane farmers, the Odisha cabinet has decided to provide Rs 15 crore guarantee to the Aska Cooperative Sugar Industries Limited for taking cash credit loan. Aska Central Cooperative bank has already drawn the said amount, Tripathy said.
The payment will be made to the sugarcane grower from this amount, he added.

The Agricultural produce and livestock contact farming and services promotion and facilitation Act 2020 got the cabinet nod as well. This is a very progressive ordinance which is going to be act, Tripathy added. In this, contract farming has been legalised and will be encouraged. This will be win-win situation for both farmers and land owners, he added.

Similarly, the Government will set up a medical park in Dhenkanal and a textile park at Dhamara in Bhadrak district.

OREDA has been comes under energy department. The Cabinet also approved a proposal for setting up a NDRF permanent company headquarters on 3.50 acres land at Hidigaon in Balasore district.

Tripathy further said that the COVID-19 surveillance will be done at ward level in both rural and urban areas and eligible migrant workers returning to the state will be covered under State Food Security Act (SFSA).

Over time limit for workers has been increased from 72 hours to 115 hours for three months