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Odisha Govt Issues Draft Notification to Create 12 New NACs in 7 Districts
The New Indian Express Jeypore
|August 17, 2025
A day after Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi announced plans for creation of 21 new notified area councils (NACs), the state government on Saturday issued a draft notification proposing to constitute 12 urban bodies in seven districts in the first phase.
The Housing and Urban Development department has released the list of 12 proposed NACs and the names of panchayats to come under the urban local bodies seeking objections and suggestions from the people likely to be affected.
As per the draft notification, one each in Angul, Sonepur and Rayagada districts, two each in Balasore, Sambalpur and Bhadrak districts and three in Mayurbhanj district will be constituted as NACs.
This story is from the August 17, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Jeypore.
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