Bhubaneswar, May 22: To make the various departments function properly of his re-shuffled party, Odisha CM yesterday came up with the 3Ts governance formula and also instructed his ministers to work on it for meeting the aspirations of the people who elected BJD to power four times consecutively. The 3Ts being transparency, teamwork and technology. Patnaik announced this while addressing the council of ministers here on completion of three years of his fourth term in Odisha. On one hand, he thanked his team members for the achievements and on the other hand, showed concern in cases of harassment being faced by people. On the government’s success, Patnaik asked the health and family welfare secretary present at the meeting about the number of babies being saved due to reduction of the IMR, to which th e secretary stated that the IMR has been reduced from 96 in the year 2000 to 40 in 2015-16 (according to NFHS data) that means saving around 51,000 babies annually compared to 2000. Stating that the reduction in IMR is the finest example of success of the party, he said that IMR reflects economic and physical access to food, health and livelihood, reflects women empowerment, education, connectivity, agricultural prosperity and establishes growth with equity. The chief minister also pointed out that it is the job of the government to empower people. Recalling the achievements achieved by the party in the three years, Patnaik mentioned about government has been able to complete more than one million houses for the poor, more than four lakh hectares of additional irrigation and six lakh hectares to be completed in the next two years, crop loan at 1 per cent interest to farmers, more than 25 lakh mothers benefited from Mamata Yojana, increasing food grain production and reducing drop out rates.
