Four universities of the State have disha (CUO), Koraput along with three other universities of Odisha signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the State Government’s Poverty and Human Development Monitoring Agency (PHDMA) on Friday. The universities are Utkal, Sambalpur, North Orissa and Central University, Koraput. The Vice-Chancellors of the universities and PHDMA Member-Secretary Roopa Roshan Sahoo signed the MoU. The PHDMA has been constituted under the Fiscal and Administrative Reform Programme with a view to monitoring and strengthening human development and poverty indicators in Odisha. In this programme, the PHDMA has introduced "Odisha Development Fellow (ODeV Fellow)" providing a platform for students and academics to substantially contribute in impact analysis and documentation of poverty reduction measures, innovative initiatives in securing livelihood and overall economic empowerment of people. The fellows would be partners in scripting the transformation story of Odisha.