Bhubaneswar: (Ont Bureau)5/3/17:Gracing the Biju Patnaik birth centenary celebration at BJD State office here today, party Supremo and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik alleged the Central Government of closing many public welfare programmes and schemes. The State Government is financing the schemes from its own pockets, he added.Counting the achievements of his party, Patnaik said, “Visible improvement has been seen in various sectors in the State. A vast change has been seen in between the Odisha of the year 2000 and now including development in infrastructure, increase in employment, production and investment in various sectors.”Targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Education Minister Debi Prasad Mishra said, “Some people are unable to see us overtake the national increment rate. A Prime Minister of India is ridiculing the poverty of Odisha and his followers are giving false statements regularly, similar to the propaganda minister of Adolf Hitler.” He questioned
