Notably, the YSRCP and BJD have also demanded special category status for Andhra Pradesh and Odisha respectively, at an all-party meeting o...

The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) has decided to renew its push for Special Category Status for Odisha. This decision emerged after a meeting chair...

Though Odisha CM did not attend the 4th Governing Council Meeting of the Niti Ayog held at New Delhi on Sunday, he apprised Prime Minister ...

Odisha doesn't have "special disadvantage" to get special category status & must focus on "other windows" to get assistances from Centre, M...

Terming the Raghuram Rajan Committee report as "unfortunate", Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today said the state would continue its ...

Jharkhand, Odisha and Rajasthan do not meet the criteria for being accorded the special category status, Parliament was informed today.

Naveen Patnaik today sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's personal intervention to expeditiously declare Odisha as such.

Patnaik, along with senior leaders of BJD, had met Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhavan after addressing 'Swabhiman Samabesh' held at Ramlila Ma...

The rally will mark the culmination of the ruling BJD's months long campaign launched on April 28 for special category state status.

In a major setback to the Patnaik govt, the Planning Commission has made it clear that Odisha does not qualify for the grant of Special Cat...

Ahluwalia's communication came in response to Patnaik's letter to PM on the matter of special category state status for Odisha.

The campaign, aimed at collecting more than one crore signatures to press for special category status and more central funds for Odisha.

A delegation of Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee today met Chidambaram and demanded a financial package for the state on the lines of spec...

Congress today urged President Pranab Mukherjee to grant Special Category State Status to Odisha.

The special category status to various states in accorded by the National Development Council based on consideration of a set of criteria.

"If the Centre is indeed keen on revisiting the criteria for special category status, why is it not doing so immediately," Odisha CM Naveen...

Claiming that a special category status was Odisha’s right, BJD ridiculed Nitish Kumar’s formula of putting conditions.