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Odisha government launched a unitary portal to provide 21 different scholarships

in State News October 27, 2020 Comments Off on Odisha government launched a unitary portal to provide 21 different scholarships 550 Views

Bhubaneswar27/10/20: In order to ensure students in Odisha avail of scholarships in a hassle-free manner, the State government today launched a unitary portal to provide 21 different scholarships offered by six departments. The move is expected to benefit more than 11 lakh students of the State.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched the scholarship portal, www.scholarship.odisha.gov.in under the State government’s 5T initiative.

Patnaik said students can apply for different scholarships through the website while being at their home within the stipulated time period. This will also bring different departments and scholarship aspirants closer.

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The ST & SC Development, Higher Education, School and Mass Education, Labour and ESI, Skill Development, and Technical Education and Agriculture departments will offer their scholarships on the portal. As the State Treasury is linked to the portal, scholarship amount will be transferred directly to the bank accounts of eligible students who have applied through the portal, said an official.

While launching another portal, www.sumangal.odisha.gov.in to provide a Rs 2.5 lakh incentive for inter-caste marriages, Patnaik stated social harmony will prevail with this kind of marriage., to grant incentive to inter-caste married couples under Odisha Right to Public Services Act, 2012. Applicants need to apply through sumangal.odisha.gov.in

Among others, Minister Jagannath Saraka, the Chief Secretary, Development Commissioner, Chief Advisor at the CMO, the 5T Secretary, and other senior officials were present during the program.

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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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