BJD supremo and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched his party’s pre-election campaign ‘Sankha Bajao Swabhiman Banchao’ from his home constituency Hinjili in Ganjam district on Thursday.
The Chief Minister inaugurated a number of welfare programmes at different places, including a health centre at Saru and an overbridge near Haladiapadar, under his constituency. He launched the much-hyped online system for registration of birth, death and physically handicapped persons also.
Besides, he laid foundation stone for construction of Punarkhandi-Saru-Sasan Road and attended a ground-breaking ceremony for establishment of a modern eye hospital at Samarjhol village, which is proposed to be built by Chennai-based Shankar Netralaya.