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Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, who is besides the State’s Finance Minister, connected Friday (February 20, 2026) presented a ₹3.10 lakh crore Budget for the fiscal twelvemonth 2026-27, with a superior outlay of ₹72,100 crore, accounting for 6.5% of the Gross State Domestic Product and 23.3% of the full State Budget.
“The percent of superior outlay of GSDP and State fund is 1 of the highest among each large States successful the country,” said Mr. Majhi.
“We volition physique satellite people infrastructure for our aboriginal generation. I suggest to make the caller large roadworthy projects including Berhampur-Jeypore Road of 287 km magnitude astatine an approximate concern of ₹9,000 crore,” helium elaborated.
“Similarly, NaMo Expressway which volition link Paralakhemundi successful the territory of Gajapati to Ambahona successful the territory of Bargarh arsenic portion of East-West Corridor and Atal Express Way (969 km) volition link Motu of Malkanagiri territory to Tiringi of Mayurbhanj District arsenic portion of North-South Corridor volition beryllium taken up,” Mr. Majhi said
The Odisha CM besides announced ₹7,500 crore for upgradation of State Highways and large territory roads to modular specifications, operation of large bridges and for creaseless postulation travel successful municipality areas.
“Sufficient allocation has been made for projects Improvement of Jayadev Vihar-Nandankanan Road. Construction of the 2nd High Level span implicit the stream Kathajodi (Subash Bose Setu), operation of the Keonjhar Bypass Road, operation of the Burla Ring Road from NH53 MCL Chowk to Baijamunda Village Chowk, widening and strengthening of the Bhawanipatna-Khariar Road (SH-16), betterment of the Phulnakhara-Niali-Madhaba Road, and operation of an HL span implicit the stream Mahanadi betwixt Narsinghpur and Baliput volition beryllium taken up,” helium said.
The State authorities precocious launched the broad economical program for the Bhubaneswar-Cuttack-Puri-Paradip Economic Region (BCPPER) successful bid to springiness a propulsion to the State’s economy.
“Using BCPPER arsenic the model, the State volition besides activate 3 further agglomerations: BargarhJharsuguda-Sambalpur (BJS), Berhampur-Chhattrapur-Gopalpur (BCG), and Jeypore-Koraput-Sunabeda (JKS) to nurture them arsenic economical clusters. The rollout volition beryllium done successful a phased manner,” Mr. Majhi said.
He announced a caller inaugural ‘CM-SAMPADA’ to amended the prime of beingness for residents successful mining-affected areas done a unsocial four-pronged approach, accelerate, top-up, initiate, and monitor, by leveraging fundings from other budgetary resources similar District Mineral Foundation.
Stating that it is substance of interest that basal amenities similar road, power, and drinking h2o person not reached each citizens of the State adjacent 78 years aft independence, the Odisha CM said, “to code the contented with a clip bound implementation model connected 3 defined rule acceptable ‘Speed, Scale and Standard’ nether the inaugural ‘Mission PoWaR’. Three basal amenities specified arsenic power, drinking h2o and past mile connectivity volition beryllium provided to each gross colony by 2026-27.”
