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Food Supplies & Consumer Welfare Department win ‘Global Planet Purpose Award’

Bhubaneswar:14/4/23: Odisha CM Congratulate  Food Supplies & Consumer Welfare Department, Government of Odisha on winning ‘Global Planet Purpose Award: Drive for Results’ at the Planet Explore2023-Transparency to Action Conference in Washington DC, US. Odisha is proud to ensure technology-led governance in paddy procurement for greater farmer welfare.May be an image of 15 people
Using real time satellite image, the validity of paddy crops at farms is checked, ensuring transparent disbursal of Minimum Support Price. The technology-led transparency as part of 5T governance has also substantially improved farmers’ participation in MSP scheme.

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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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