Projects for Rayagada spark protests
The decision of a few companies to set up projects in Rayagada district of Orissa has sparked widespread protests from the local populace. The people allege that they have been given scant
The decision of a few companies to set up projects in Rayagada district of Orissa has sparked widespread protests from the local populace. The people allege that they have been given scant
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has asked the Orissa government to submit a detailed report on the land acquisition for the two proposed mega alumina projects at Kashipur area in Rayagada
The malnutrition death toll in poverty-stricken Kashipur block of Rayagada district has risen to 14, with three members of a tribal family perishing in the last two days at Pitajodi village.
The Orissa Government has denied starvation deaths in Kashipur block of Rayagada district and said, contrary to media reports, all the households had lifted their entitlement of rice from the Public
The raging controversy over the "hunger deaths" in Orissa;s Rayagada district has gathered steam with the Collector denying categorically that anyone in the district died of starvation.The issue,
The Orissa government is in a fix over a communique from the National Human Rights Commission asking it to furnish a report on the reported "starvation deaths" of 20 tribal people in Rayagada
The reception meted out to Orissa Chief Minister Navin Patnaik by the villagers of Kashipur block in Rayagada district must have come as a rude shock to him. Driving through villages where more than
The probe report on the Kashipur and Rayagada "starvation" deaths has exposed the Orissa Government's failure in implementing the Food for Work schemes and a slack PDS
The National Human Rights Commission should be commended for responding promptly to media reports about starvation deaths in Rayagada district, Orissa, and issuing a notice to the State government.
The president of the Orissa Pradesh Congress Committee, Mr. J. B. Patnaik, today alleged that 48 persons have died of starvation in the Kashipur block of the State's Rayagada
At least 20,000 persons, mostly the old and children, are in urgent need of help in Kashipur block of Rayagada district, Orissa, even as the death toll has risen to 23 with two more persons
Even as welfare programmes continue to flounder in the area, more tribal casualties are being reported from the benighted Kashipur block of Rayagada district. Sources said at least two more
To much of the outside world the four deaths in Pitajodi village of Kashipur block of Orissa's Rayagada district are either "starvation deaths" or deaths due to food poisoning.But for the tribals of
Orissa will spend about Rs 7 crore for developing health infrastructure in Rayagada district, where 20 tribals died recently, the minister of state for health and family welfare. Mr Debi Prasad
On May 28,1995, 3 jeeps full of uniformed officers and forest guards along with a truck and a tractor arrived in Haliasahi, a remote Adivasi hamlet in Kashipur block, Rayagada district,
Orissa s Kashipur alumina project rekindles tribal wrath
When poverty is endemic, it is very hard to select a few districts that ideally should be the poorest of the poor. "It is difficult to identify the poorest districts as the lists prepared by
<p>Read the recent order by National Environment Appellate Authority on granting environmental clearance to Lanjigarh bauxite mining project of Orissa Mining Corporation in Kalahandi and Rayagada districts of Orissa.</p> <p><strong>Related</strong></p> <p>Report: <a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/313651">Decision on grant of forest clearance in Kalahandi</a></p>
<p>Read the recent order by National Environment Appellate Authority on granting environmental clearance to Lanjigarh bauxite mining project of Orissa Mining Corporation in Kalahandi and Rayagada districts of Orissa.</p> <p><strong>Related</strong></p> <p>Report: <a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/313651">Decision on grant of forest clearance in Kalahandi</a></p>
Government support to Vedanta’s alumina project in Orissa creates more uproar; company pays token fine