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Odisha Accelerates Irrigation Projects have been earmarked for accelerated implementation

in State News September 2, 2025 Comments Off on Odisha Accelerates Irrigation Projects have been earmarked for accelerated implementation 908 Views

Bhubaneswar: 2/9/25:In a significant move to enhance irrigation capacity and modernise water management, the Department of Water Resources is intensifying efforts across Odisha. Development Commissioner-cum-Additional Chief Secretary Anu Garg chaired a high-level review meeting with senior officials on Tuesday to evaluate departmental spending and chart out the roadmap for upcoming initiatives.

The meeting underscored the importance of completing ongoing projects within stipulated timelines to achieve the goals set under the state’s 5-Year Irrigation Plan. To this end, five major, 15 medium, and 100 minor irrigation projects have been earmarked for accelerated implementation.

The Engineer-in-Chief, Water Resources, has been assigned the responsibility of monitoring progress on both existing and new projects.

Additionally, the Engineer-in-Chief (Procurement) was instructed to expedite the tendering process to ensure early execution of projects. The meeting also directed the Odisha Construction Corporation (OCC) and the Chief Engineer, Minor Irrigation, to advance tank development projects under the Odisha Integrated Irrigated Agriculture and Water Management Project (OIIPCRA).

For financial sustainability, the Engineer-in-Chief (Planning & Design) was tasked with enhancing water rate collection from industries. The meeting also stressed the importance of visible progress in critical areas, including the installation of gates on ungated projects, automation of existing gates, and river interlinking. The department further set a target to complete 50 minor irrigation projects using underground pressurized pipeline (UGPL) systems.

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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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