Red Cross membership fees hiked
Bhubaneswar: The lifetime membership fee for the Indian Red Cross Society has been increased from Rs 500 to Rs 1,000 as per a notice, informed Red Cross Police Commissionerate Branch executive committee member Dillip Dashsharma on Wednesday. Similarly, the fee for a patron member has been hiked from Rs 20,000 to Rs 25,000 and for vice-patron member from Rs 10,000 to Rs 12,000. The new membership fees have been made effective from July 20, 2017.
land to landless: Praja Samiti hails Govt move
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Bhumihina Praja Samiti State president Er Debashisha Hota has thanked Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for the Cabinet decision on giving homestead land to the landless in urban areas. Here noteworthy that, in the last eight months, the Samiti orgnaised many mass agitations in Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Balangir, Dhenkanal, Kamakhyanagar and Bhuban pressing for homestead land to the landless in both urban and rural areas. “We welcome the Cabinet decision and expect immediate implementation of the Act in favour of the poor landless slum dwellers,” Hota told.
CM honours Cuttack ITI student
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday felicitated a student of Cuttack ITI, Prabhanjan Patra, at the State Secretariat Patra after he was adjudged the best in the country at the recent All India Craftsmen’s Competition.