The State Government has spent over Rs 86 crore on the publicity of its various schemes in the last eight months.
In a reply to a question in the Assembly on Thursday, Information & Public Relations Minister Raghunandan Das said the Government has spent this
amount from November 2018 to June 19, 2019.
During this period, Rs 60.19 crore was spent on electronic media (31 TV channels) while Rs 26.04 crore was paid to print media (89 newspapers), the Minister replied to a question by Congress MLA Tara Prasad Bahinipati.
Besides, sources said the Government has set a sum of Rs 226.85 crore on publicity expenditure for the current financial year.
Earlier, an RTI query had revealed that the State Government spent over Rs 350 crore in the past eight years to promote its schemes, programmes and projects.