{"id":8254,"date":"2026-07-21T16:05:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T16:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agamiduniya.in\/?p=8254"},"modified":"2026-07-21T16:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T16:10:08","slug":"cordial-partnership-between-uk-odisha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agamiduniya.in\/?p=8254","title":{"rendered":"Cordial partnership between UK-Odisha"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em><strong>British Deputy High Commissioner Calls on Hon\u2019ble Deputy Chief Minister Shri K V Singh Deo to Discuss UK-Odisha Partnership<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bhubaneswar, 21st July 2026 [ADN]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Andrew Fleming, British Deputy High Commissioner, Kolkata, called on Shri Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo, Hon\u2019ble Deputy Chief Minister of Odisha in Lokseva Bhavan today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The meeting focused on strengthening UK-Odisha collaborations in the wake of the UK-India Free Trade Agreement. Key areas of discussion included opportunities for enhanced bilateral trade and investment, with special emphasis on energy, infrastructure, skills development, critical minerals, and the sports sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Highlighting his strong connection with the region, the Deputy High Commissioner mentioned that this was his 18th visit to Odisha and warmly praised the state&#8217;s rich culture, heritage and pace of growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hon\u2019ble Dy. CM and the Deputy High Commissioner also exchanged views on avenues to promote sustainable economic growth and deepen people-to-people ties between the UK and Odisha, in line with the vision of Viksit Odisha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During his visit, Dr. Fleming was accompanied by senior officials from the British Deputy High Commission, including Mr. Sandip Chaudhuri, Head of Investment &#8211; Eastern India, Department for Business and Trade, Kolkata, and Ms. Swarnamayee Satapathy, Assistant Communications, Events &amp; Visits Officer, Kolkata.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the visit of the delegation Shri Vishal Kumar Dev, Additional Chief Secretary, Energy, Shri Bhaskar Jyoti Sarma, CMD OPTCL, Shri Sachin Ramchandra Jadhav, Commissioner-cum-Secretary Agriculture &amp; Farmers&#8217; Empowerment, and Dr. Satyapriya Rath, MD GRIDCO were present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The visit reflects the growing commitment of the United Kingdom to partner with Odisha across trade, education, and cultural sectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhubaneswar, 21st July 2026 [ADN] Dr. Andrew Fleming, British Deputy High Commissioner, Kolkata, called on Shri Kanak Vardhan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-31"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agamiduniya.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agamiduniya.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agamiduniya.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agamiduniya.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agamiduniya.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8254"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/agamiduniya.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8258,"href":"https:\/\/agamiduniya.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8254\/revisions\/8258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agamiduniya.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agamiduniya.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agamiduniya.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agamiduniya.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}