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Former IPS officer Prakash Mishra has been appointed as the advisor to Odisha Chief Minister

Bhubaneswar:27/1/25:Former IPS officer Prakash Mishra has been appointed as the advisor to Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi in the rank of Cabinet minister. The General Administration and Public Grievance Department issued a notification regarding this.

A 1977-batch IPS officer, Mishra was the DGP of Odisha from 2012 to 14. Before his retirement, the Odisha cadre IPS officer had served as the Director General (DG) of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) from 2014 to 2016.

He had joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in Odisha in 2019. The former IPS officer had unsuccessfully contested the 2019 Lok Sabha polls from Cuttack constituency on a BJP ticket.

 

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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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