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Mahaling also thanked CM Mohan Majhi and Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan for announcing the Central Health Project

The Odisha Health Minister also reiterated that the state government will launch the Subhadra Yojana September 17, coinciding with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's birthday

Earlier, September 8, Odisha chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi announced that the state's second AIIMS will be built in Sambalpur

Bhubaneswar, Sept 13: Odisha Health Minister Mukesh Mahaling announced Friday that preparations are underway to establish a second campus of the All India Institute of Medical Science campus in Sambalpur, adding that the State is set to become a leading hub in the health sector within the next five years.

Mahaling also thanked Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi and Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan for announcing the Central Health Project.

"This is a matter of great joy that CM Mohan Charan Majhi and Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan have announced that the second AIIMS campus of the state will come up in Sambalpur. Preparations are underway for that. Availability of plots of land is also being looked into. In the next five years, Odisha will become the best hub for the health sector," Mahaling told ANI.

Mahaling said, "Today a meeting was held under the chairmanship of the Chief Minister in which all the ministers and MLAs were also present. A roadmap was made for the membership campaign going on across the country. Our government is also going to celebrate Seva Saptah."

The Odisha Health Minister also reiterated that the state government will launch the Subhadra Yojana September 17, coinciding with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's birthday.

"On the birthday of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, our government is going to launch the Subhadra Yojana, which was also promised in our manifesto. Prime Minister Modi will inaugurate this scheme. We are going to organize a program at the district level regarding the achievements of our government in the last 100 days. Programs will be organized by our government across the state regarding all these schemes," he added.

Earlier, September 8, Odisha chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi announced that the state's second AIIMS will be built in Sambalpur.

"The second AIIMS of Odisha will come up in Sambalpur. The state government has already placed a demand in this regard before the Centre," CM Majhi said at the launch of the CM-KISAN Yojana at the GM University auditorium in Sambalpur.

The state got its first All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) in 2014 during the UPA regime.

Chief Minister Majhi on September 8 launched 'CM-KISAN Yojana' on the occasion of the Nuakhai festival at Odisha's Sambalpur in the presence of Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.

The scheme aims to provide over 900 crore of financial assistance to 46 lakh small and marginal farmers who are not covered under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) yojana.

Earlier, Odisha's Deputy Chief Minister, Pravati Parida, flagged off the Subhadra Yojana awareness 'rath' on Ganesh Chaturthi.

Deputy Chief Minister Pravati Parida had earlier unveiled the 'Subhadra Yojana' portal at Lok Seva Bhavan in Bhubaneswar.

She explained, "Beneficiaries willing to apply for the flagship scheme can now visit the official website of Subhadra and avail themselves of the benefits by sharing the necessary details. It will be launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 17."

The scheme, with a budget of Rs 10,000 crore, has prepared a list of 1.5 crore women. A standard procedure will be set up for distributing funds. Chief Minister Majhi added, "No development can be achieved by ignoring women. The dream of every woman for financial independence and empowerment will be fulfilled with the implementation of the scheme."

Majhi said that the government too is committed to supporting the hopes and dreams of Odisha's 4.5 crore people and protecting Odia culture with a Rs 200 crore fund.

(ANI)

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Will Meet Fantastic Man PM Modi During His US Visit, Says Trump

by Hemanta Pande

New York, Sep 18: Former President Donald Trump has said he will meet “fantastic man” Prime Minister Narendra Modi next week when he visits the US.

"He happens to be coming to meet me next week, and Modi, he's fantastic. I mean, fantastic, man,” Trump said on Tuesday at a town hall meeting in Flint, Michigan.

PM Modi will be in the US from Saturday to Monday, according to the Ministry of External Affairs.

The Ministry’s programme listed only PM Modi’s participation in the Quad Summit in Delaware on Saturday, his speech to the Indian diaspora on Long Island on Sunday, and his address to the United Nations Summit of the Future on Monday.

It did not mention meeting with Trump but said, “On the sidelines of the Summit, the Prime Minister would be holding bilateral meetings with several world leaders and discuss issues of mutual interest.”

Trump's campaign calendar shows him in North Carolina on Saturday and in Pennsylvania on Monday evening, with nothing pencilled in for Sunday.

The former president mentioned the meeting with PM Modi while talking about trade imbalances and how he would hike duties on imports from India through a Trump Reciprocal Tax Act.

He called India “a very big abuser” of the tariffs system because of the high duties it imposes on some imports from the US and said New Delhi “is very tough” in negotiations.

“If anybody charges us 10 cents, if they charge us $2, if they charge us 100 per cent 250, we charge them the same,” he said.

Listing India among them, he said that countries the US was trading with are “the sharpest people. They're not a little bit backward … they're at the top of their game, and they use it against us”.

He added, “China is the toughest of all, but we were taking care of China with the tariffs, so we're going to do a reciprocal trade.”

While in office Trump tangled with India over tariffs, putting a spotlight on the duties on Harley-Davidson motorcycles and whiskey.

He hiked duties on steel and aluminium imports and eliminated the Generalised Scheme of Preferences that provided for concessional tariffs for some Indian exports and New Delhi retaliated by raising duties mostly on agricultural exports like apples and almonds.

Even though they had differences on trade, PM Modi and Trump developed strong personal ties.

With elections about five weeks away and Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris in almost a tie, PM Modi has a tightrope walk ahead -- not appearing to favour either party but also having to keep his lines of communication open to both.

Before the 2020 election that Trump lost, PM Modi appeared alongside him at a community event billed as “Howdy Modi”, in Houston in 2019 and, in a play of his own election slogan, cheered him, “Abki baar, Trump sarkar” (This time, Trump’s government”).