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Odisha Chief Minister directed the DGP to keep a strict eye on domestic violence

Bhubaneswar: 14/4/20: Considering possibility of rise in domestic violence in the state during the lockdown, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today directed the DGP to keep a strict eye on the habitual offenders.

At a COVID-19 review meeting held here today, CM Naveen said as domestic violence is also a major cause of concern during the lockdown, the Odisha police should begin the process of identifying the habitual offenders and extend help to the complainants through phone calls.

He also directed the police to ensure that works of farmers and movement of their agricultural produces are not disrupted due to enforcement of the lockdown. Besides, he ordered for setting up of COVID-19 hospital in each district in next one week. The Government has planned to keep total 6000 beds ready at 36 places in the state to treat the patients by the end of this month .

” I am pleased to see that the coronavirus statistics are leveling in the State and going down. That’s a very good sign. And those who are responsible for this including doctors, health workers, police and administrative officials,  very well done!,” Patnaik said.

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Ashok Palit has completed his graduation from Upendranath College Soro, Balasore and post graduation from Utkal University in Odia Language and literture.. He has also carved out a niche for himself as a scribe of eminence after joining the profession in 1988. He is also an independent media production professional. He brings loads of experience to Advanced Media, Ashok Palit as a cineaste has been active in film criticism for over three decades. As a film society activist, he soared to eminence for his profound commitment to the art film appreciation and aesthetics of cinema. His mode of discourse is often erudite but always lucid and comprehensible marked by a perfect acumen so rare in the field. A film aesthete with an immense fond of critical sensibilities, he wrote about growth and development of odia cinema in New Indian Express, The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, The Asian Age and Screen. He has been working as an Editor for Cine Samaya from 2002-2004.. He had made solid contribution on cinema in many odia Dailies and weekly such as Samaj, Prajatantra, Dharatri, Samaya, Satabadi, and weekly Samaya.
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