Develepment Commissioner cum Additional Chief Secy reviews Odisha State Capability & Resilient Growth Policy Programme

Bhubaneswar 11.09.2025:The progress under the three components of the Odisha State Capability & Resilient Growth Policy Programme funded by the World Bank has been reviewed by the High Level Steering Committee (HLSC), chaired by the Development Commissioner-cum-Additional Chief Secretary, Anu Garg, IAS today on 11.09.2025 in the conference hall of Planning & Convergence department, Odisha.

The meeting was attended by the Principal Secretary, E⁢ Special Secretary, P&C Department; CEO, OCAC; Executive Director, OSDMA; Director, DA&FE; Director, DE&S; Joint Secretary-cum- Nodal Officer, Finance Department, Deputy Director General, NSO, Bhubaneswar, representatives from PR&DW Department, DA&FE Department, officers from DE&S and CEFT, XIM, Bhubaneswar -the Independent Verification Agency for the project.

Director, E&S, Odisha gave a detailed presentation on the achievements and the works in progress for the year 2025-26 under the strengthening of State statistical system component of the project. The major achievements are the publication of Data Dissemination Policy and the Implementation Guidelines for Official Statistics, the introduction of CAPI technology for the collection of price statistics, adoption of Generic Statistical Business Process Model (GSBPM) for codifying all statistical activities, etc. Further, the DE&S is currently working on publishing a data catalogue for core datasets and the release of a new statistical product as envisioned for the year 2025-26. DC-cum-ACS instructed the DE&S team to complete the task by March 2025.
The Joint Secretary and the Nodal officer for the EAP from the Finance Department apprised the Committee of the status of the three core result areas, including Increasing Social Protection Coverage through Adaptive Delivery Systems, which is being implemented by the OCAC, E&IT Department, and Reducing Losses by Strengthening Disaster Management Systems-OSDMA, R&DM Dept. CEO, OCAC, intimated that the development of the Social Protection Delivery platform (SPDP) has been completed, and the training & socialization programme for government officials on using SPDP is in progress and will be achieved by the deadline.

The Development Commissioner-cum-Additional Chief Secretary has instructed both OCAC and OSDMA to work for the achievement of the DLIs earmarked up to 2025-26 by the end of this financial year.