Bhubaneswar, June 12: The first session of the recently established  Odisha assembly began here Thursday with Governor S.C. Jamir laying out the road map of the recently elective  government.

“Immediately when the swearing in ceremony, my government known as the primary meeting of the council of ministers and resolved to implement the guarantees we created in a time-bound manner,” the governor aforesaid in his address to the primary session of the fifteenth assembly.

“My government shall fulfil in a time-bound manner the first construction required within the space of road communication, drinking water, electricity, irrigation, agriculture and education in each urban and rural areas,” he said.

Jamir aforesaid the govt. has set to irrigate a further ten 100000 hectares of land within the next 5 years.

He also aforesaid the govt. has set to line up a mandi (market place) and cold storage within the public-private partnership mode in every gram council (village council) to assist farmers store and sell their product.

The ruling Biju Janata dal has 117 members within the 147-member assembly whereas the most opposition Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party have sixteen and ten members severally.

The House adjourned for the day when paying homage to former legislators and police and security personnel who died or were killed in the line of duty in the recent past.