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Kolkata: The newly elected Bharatiya Janata Party and Mohan Charan Majhi-led government in Odisha has renamed several schemes and programmes, which were named after former chief minister late Biju Patnaik, drawing criticism from the opposition parties...
His son, former chief minister and now leader of the Opposition in Odisha assembly, Naveen Patnaik, said that he had noticed that the government had changed the names of almost 40 schemes launched by the previous Biju Janata Dal (BJD) government..
They (BJP) have renamed more than 40 schemes of my government as their own, he said at the Vidhan Sabha Thursday, after Chief Minister Majhi presented the maiden budget of the BJP-led government...
One of the prominent rebranded schemes is the Gopabandhu Jana Arogya Yojana, a modified version of the Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana (BSKY), which promises cashless medical treatment of up to Rs 5 lakh for nearly 96 lakh families, including Rs 10 lakh for women...
Last week, the new government had issued a notification to change the name of the Biju Patnaik Sports Award established in 2001-2002 to recognise exceptional contributions in the field of sports in multiple categories and presented annually on National Sports Day (29 August) to Odisha Rajya Krida Samman...
