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Gopabandhu Sambadika Swasthya Bima Yojana has been extended up to 31 August 2025

Bhubaneswar31/8/24:: With the approval of Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, the duration of Gopabandhu Sambadika Swasthya Bima Yojana, the health insurance scheme for the working journalists has been extended from 1 September 2024 to 31 August 2025, Information and Public Relations Department informed.

In this context, the scheme has been renewed. An annual premium of 8 crore 55 lakh 76 thousand 314 has been paid to the Oriental Insurance Company and a bilateral agreement has been signed between the insurance company and the Information and Public Relations Department.

Initially, 7041 working journalists have been included in this insurance scheme for the next year. The portal of the Information and Public Relations Department will open in the first week of September for journalists applying to register under the scheme. The process of application will be valid for one month, stated a release issued by the Information and Public Relations Department.

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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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