Bhubaneswar: The Odisha chief minister, Naveen Patnaik, Tuesday launched his week long programme of reviewing the performance of ministers and their departments.

On the opening day, he reviewed the performance of school and mass education minister Badri Narayan Patra, ST & SC welfare minister Ramesh Majhi and Law and Health & Family Welfare minister Pratap Jena.

The chief minister directed the ministers to monitor and implement welfare progammes on a time bound manner.