Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Cabinet today approved eleven important proposals, including deemed university status to the city-based Asian School of Business Management (ASBM).

The proposals were approved at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik here at state secretariat.

According to sources, the Cabinet has given nod to two proposals by the Higher Education Department.

Similarly, two proposals by the Revenue Department on allotment of land for a railway project at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district.

Likewise, the Cabinet has approved one proposal by the Panchayati Raj Drinking Water Department for three drinking water projects in Puri and Nabarangpur districts. One proposal by the Law Department was also approved by the Cabinet.