"The government shall fulfill in a time-bound manner the primary infrastructure needs in areas of road, communication, drinking water, electrification, irrigation, agriculture and education," Jamir said addressing the inaugural session of the 15th Odisha Assembly here.
He said these requirements would be met in both rural and urban areas so that lack of access to infrastructure would not become a barrier to growth and well-being of people.
Similarly, the scope of "Biju Setu Yujana" would be expanded, while the state government would ensure access to power and piped water in rural areas, he said.
To prepare the vast majority of youths coming into workforce annually, the government would introduce a "Chief Minister's Employment Generation Scheme" to upgrade skills of at least 150 youth from every Gram Panchayat, who would then be linked to loan and subsidy, the governor said.
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An "Odisha Youth Innovation Fund" would be created to incubate new business ideas coming from young entrepreneurs, he said adding recruitment in government in all fields would be scaled up and recruitment of local talent facilitated in all industries and investments coming into the state.
As input management held the key to sustained agriculture productivity improvement, the government envisioned to create an additional irrigation potential for ten lakh hectares in the next five years besides providing quality seeds, fertilisers, pesticides, insecticides and required technical extension services in every panchayat, he said.
A comprehensive Warehousing Act would be legislated to create storage infrastructure in every panchayat, while subsidy based cold storage facilities would be established on PPP mode in all blocks, Jamir said.
The fight for Special Category State status for Odisha would be intensified with emphasis on Odia "Swabhiman" (pride) till the demand was acceded to by the central government, he said adding an Odia University would be set up to facilitate all round development of the language.