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The Mohan Charan Majhi-led Odisha authorities connected Sunday (February 1, 2026) welcomed the Union Budget 2026-27 saying the “historic” Budget nether visionary guidance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi volition thrust the state towards improvement portion each sections of nine would beryllium benefited by respective schemes.
Congratulating Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for presenting Budget 2026-27 for the grounds 9th time, Mr. Majhi said the Budget has earmarked money of ₹12.20 lakh crore for infrastructure improvement which volition trigger employments for youths and catapult India to the presumption of 3rd largest system of world.
In the Union Budget, the sanction of Odisha was mentioned thrice for rare world corridors, operationalisation of National Waterway-5 successful Odisha to link the mineral-rich regions of Talcher and Angul and concern centres specified arsenic Kalinga Nagar with the ports and Turtle Trails on cardinal nesting sites successful the coastal areas of Odisha.
“Odisha has been fixed accent successful uncommon world corridor scheme. This has besides been absorption of Odisha authorities during its scouts for concern successful Utkarsh Odisha conclave and investors’ acme successful different States. Odisha has 575-km coastline which is affluent successful uncommon world material. Odisha volition beryllium benefited successful the caller programme, contributing India’s growth,” said Mr. Majhi addressing a property league successful Bhubaneswar connected Sunday (February 1, 2026).
Odisha volition besides beryllium benefited by projected improvement of an integrated East Coast Industrial Corridor with a well-connected node astatine Durgapur, creation of 5 tourism destinations successful the 5 Purvodaya States, and the proviso of 4,000 e-buses.
“It has been projected to operationalise 20 caller National Waterways (NW) implicit adjacent 5 years, starting with NW-5 successful Odisha to link mineral affluent areas of Talcher and Angul and concern centres specified arsenic Kalinga Nagar to the Ports of Paradeep and Dhamra. This is situation affable and smoothen transport of minerals to ports,” said Odisha CM.
“Union Budget 2026-27 announces the improvement of Turtle Trails successful coastal Odisha, creating ecologically sustainable pathways astatine cardinal turtle nesting sites, promoting conservation, eco-tourism, and section livelihoods. It is simply a invited step,” helium pointed out.
Expressing disappointment implicit the Union Budget 2026, Leader of Opposition successful Odisha Assembly and erstwhile CM Naveen Patnaik said the Budget offered nary noteworthy benefits to the State and its people.
“As seen from the entirety of the Union Budget, Odisha is getting allocations lone for taking its earthy resources distant and wholly ignored erstwhile it comes to assets allocation for payment of radical of the State,” Mr. Patnaik wrote connected ‘X’.
“It is simply a immense disappointment for the radical of Odisha that the announcement to make 7 High-Speed Rail corridors betwixt cities arsenic ‘growth connectors’ does not diagnostic Odisha,” helium pointed out.
“And it is rather baffling that the Tourism centric Scheme for Development of Buddhist Circuits has wholly skipped Odisha contempt having respective precise important Buddhist sites including our Diamond Triangle. It is clip the State BJP authorities takes work for radical of Odisha and guarantee they get their rightful dues from Centre,” said Mr. Patnaik.
