Reply affidavit filed by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the matter of Debadityo Sinha & Others Vs Union of India & Others. An application filed before the NGT said that illegal construction activities and clearing the vegetation and forest using massive earthwork and levelling the land …
Bhagirathi Behera of Tikiri village offers voluntary service at the primary health centre where a number of cholera patients come for treatment. Young Ruai Majhi, a resident of Kucheipadar village in Kashipur block of Orissa
BHUBANESWAR: Cholera may have been controlled in Kalahandi but it is still fully on with its dreaded hybrid variant threatening to break loose. A surveillance study suggests that this killer bacteria is present in at least 13 districts of the State. While Rayagada witnessed the scourge of cholera in 2007, …
Please accept my greetings I am a Dongria Kondh and take pride in my identity. I live in the Niyamgiri hills. The hills are also the abode of our gods. It never occurred to us or our ancestors that our home or way of living would one day come under …
The water level of Mahanadi showed a rising trend following heavy rains triggered by a low pressure as three more persons died due to flash floods and rainrelated incidents on Wednesday. Worst hit were southern districts Koraput, Malkangiri, Rayagada and Ganjam as many places remained cut off with flash floods …
RAYAGADA: Cotton cultivation in Gunupur agricultural district, where a major portion of cotton is produced, is poised for a leap during 2009-10 kharif. This time the area under cultivation is expected to see a 30 per cent rise, experts said. Last year cotton was cultivated in 23,000 hectare producing 1,25,000 …
BERHAMPUR: With the death of a woman, the death toll in unknown disease in Royalpata village in Kasipur block of Rayagada district rose to seven. The disease broke out 13 days back. Another six persons are battling for life while scores of others are suffering from the disease. The village …
In the era of liberalization and privatization, a sizeable number of mineral processing industries are coming to invest in the mineral rich state of Orissa. As a result, there is large involuntary population displacement of the marginalized sections including tribal. There is resistance leading to agitation by 'already' and 'potential' …
In recent years, there is growing opinion on the need to initiate soil and water conservation, to develop watersheds and to provide protective and supplementary irrigation particularly to wastelands, drylands, hill terrains etc., for enhancing production and produtivity. The study is based on primary data collected from a random sample …
Bauhinia Vahlii one of the valuable species is a giant climber and also called as Siali in Orissa and "mahul patta" in Madhya Pradesh. Leaves are used for making cups and plates and for wrapping food. The collectors harvest Siali leaves by damaging plant to obtain maximum leaves. Such unsustainable …
Vedanta refinery pollutes river, sickens people in Orissa VEDANTA recently invited bureaucrats and glitterati to pat its back on corporate social responsibility activities at its first such meeting. But people living around Vedanta Aluminium Ltd
Despite a ban, Bt cotton cultivation is widespread in Orissa the recent death of 93 goats after grazing near a cotton field in Bolangir, a tribal-dominated district in Orissa, has put the authorities on alert. The field in Kuthurla village, Khaprakhol block, was reportedly under Bt cotton cultivation. The state …
the process followed to clear a proposed expansion of Utkal Alumina International Limited's (uail's) bauxite mining and alumina refinery project in Rayagada, Orissa, has raised disturbing questions about the legality of the project, the quality of the environmental impact assessments (eias) and the involvement of local communities in the decision-making …
The Orissa government's agreement with Vedanta Alumina to allow mining of bauxite deposits in the Niyamgiri hills, the home of the Dongaria Kondha tribe, is an example of how corporate interests backed by state support are trampling on tribal livelihoods and threatening an ecologically rich and important region.
It has been three years since Sumani Jaghodi a tribal resident of Mandibisi village, Rayagada district, Orissa led a successful struggle of hill broom collectors in the district. She still cannot believe that her modest broom could overturn an enormously skewed forest law of the state. Till March 2000, the …
