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The Odisha State Electricity Regulatory Commission or OERC is a Public Sector Undertaking of Government of Odisha established under the Orissa Electricity Reform (OER) Act, 1995, as a part of the Reform Process in the State of Odisha. [1]
View of the banks of the Daya River from a top Dhauli Hills, the presumed venue of the Kalinga War. Odisha (formerly known as Orissa) is one of the 28 states in the Republic of India. Odisha is located in the eastern part of the Indian peninsula and the Bay of Bengal lies to its East while Chhattisgarh shares its border in the west and north-west.
Odisha (English: / ə ˈ d ɪ s ə /; [19] Odia: ⓘ), formerly Orissa (the official name until 2011), [20] is a state located in Eastern India. It is the eighth-largest state by area , and the eleventh-largest by population , with over 41 million inhabitants.
Odisha was the first state in India to reform its power sector. In 1996, it passed the Orissa Electricity Reform Act to restructure and privatize the sector. Before the Act, the single public-sector company Orissa State Electricity Board (OSEB) had been producing and supplying electricity in the state since its establishment in 1961.
The Orissa High Court, located in Cuttack, has jurisdiction over the whole state. [1] The present Legislative Assembly of Odisha is unicameral, consisting of 147 Member of the Legislative Assembly (M.L.A). Its term is 5 years, unless sooner dissolved. [2]
The 30 districts of Odisha have been placed under three different revenue divisions to streamline their governance. The divisions are Central, North and South with their headquarters at Cuttack (Central Division), Sambalpur (Northern Division), Berhampur (Southern Division) respectively.
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The Cuttack Survey School 1876 — later renamed to Orissa School of Engineering — was established as the first technical school in the state. The conversation of School of Engineering happened in 1923. This is the oldest technical institute in the state. Prior to 1923, there was no scope of technical education in Orissa.