Bhubaneswar, Dec. 1: The Odisha government will continue with the eight projects from its own resources as the Centre has stopped funding for the schemes.

The projects include police force modernisation, management of plantation and forest, food processing mission, sustainable management of the Chilika lake and preservation of the Buddhist heritage sites.

In the Rs 10,227-crore supplementary budget, which the Odisha government presented in the Assembly on the first day of the winter session, financial provisions have been made for the Centre-sponsored projects. Withdrawal of the central funds has become a bone of contention between the Modi government and the Naveen Patnaik government with the latter accusing the former of "stepmotherly attitude towards the state".

The government will provide Rs 20 crore for police modernisation, Rs 15 crore for the Odisha Mission Food Processing, Rs 22 crore for plantation and forest management, Rs 8 crore to manage the Chilka lake and another Rs 1 crore to preserve the Buddhist heritage sites.

Besides, the state government has enhanced allocation for the Biju KBK Yojana and the Gopabandhu Grameen Yojana following disruption of the revised long-term action plan for the KBK region and the Backward Region Grant Fund by the Centre. Adequate provisions have been made for the two Centre-sponsored schemes - the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (Rs 91.26 crore) and the Smart City Mission (Rs 10 crore).

Finance minister Pradip Amat, who presented the budget, said Rs 1,105 crore would be spent on providing relief to drought-hit farmers. The state expects Rs 600-crore assistance from the National Disaster Relief Fund.

In the morning, Opposition parties stalled the House proceedings, demanding an immediate discussion on farmer suicides and drought. Displaying placards and banners, they wanted suspension of the Question Hour to facilitate the discussion. Speaker Niranjan Pujari adjourned the House, and when it reassembled in the afternoon, he ruled that the photographs of the placards and banners should not be telecast or printed.

Opposition leader Narasingha Mishra and the Congress party members staged a walkout of the House after the Speaker turned down their proposal to discuss on the farmer suicides issue. The BJP members also joined the protest.

The state government faced embarrassment in the morning as Mishra also condoled the deaths of more than 111 farmers, who had committed suicides in the state, when the House was making obituary reference to four former legislators.