The industrial and business hub of the north is fast moving towards becoming a smart city as envisaged under the Smart City Mission (SCM) of the Union Government, the government has claimed.
Odisha Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari claimed that the estimated outlay for the current financial year is the "highest" in the history of the state budget, and is around 17.6 per cent more than the Rs 1.7 lakh crore allocated for the last fiscal.