Bhubaneswar, Dec. 1: Odisha finance minister Pradip Kumar Amat today presented a supplementary budget seeking Rs 4 crore grant for Industrial Promotion and Investment Corporation Limited (Ipicol) to conduct the ongoing Make in Odisha Conclave.

Besides, the state government also sought the post-facto approval to the provision of Rs 68 lakh for providing free accommodation to widows in Puri during Kartik month and distributing mahaprasad to them.

The supplementary budget of Rs 6,014.06 crore is to meet certain "unforeseen expenditures", provisions for which were not made in the Rs 94,000-crore budget passed earlier.

The government today also sought additional provision for funds in rural development and social sector, keeping the panchayat polls in mind.

After presentation of the supplementary budget, Amat told newspersons that an additional provision of Rs 1956.30 crore had been made for rural development. Provisions of Rs 681.20 crore for development of irrigation, Rs 419.65 crore for improvement of road infrastructure and Rs 300 crore for installation of electricity sub-stations have also been made.

The House today also decided not to sit tomorrow to help MLAs attend the ongoing Make in Odisha conclave. The Congress had opposed the decision describing the event as an "eye wash" to cover up the government's "failures on industrialisation".

Congress chief whip Tara Prasad Bahinipati and member Prafulla Majhi said that more than 50 per cent industries in the state had now turned sick.

Before the presentation of the budget, the House had witnessed uproarious scenes with Congress legislators storming the Well, forcing a series of adjournments both in the morning and afternoon sessions.

They were demanding an immediate discussion on deaths of hundreds of children due to Japanese encephalitis in Malkangiri district.

Speaker Niranjan Pujari later called a meeting of leaders of all political parties to break the impasse. At the meeting, the treasury bench agreed to the demand for a discussion on the issue.

At the outset of the session this morning, leader of the Opposition Narasingha Mishra had demanded that the discussion on the Japanese encephalitis outbreak be taken up immediately, suspending all other business.

However, Congress members trooped into the Well and disrupted Assembly proceedings as the speaker ignored his demand.

In another development, the Congress Legislature Party today met and reconfirmed its faith and confidence in its leader Narasingha Mishra. "We have full faith in his leadership," said the party MLAs in a resolution following news reports that there was a rift in the legislature party.