Between 2020 and June 2020, several ash pond accidents have been reported across India. These accidents have caused deaths, extensive pollution of the water, air, soil and loss of property. Unfortunately, the public outrage associated with coal ash pollution remains limited to big disasters. The slow poisoning of communities living …
ROURKELA: Hearing a petition filed against the Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), the Supreme Court in a recent order took the management to task and snubbed the Orissa State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) for not adequately utilising its statutory powers to check environmental pollution. The indictment, among other things, ordered initiation …
Bhubaneswar: Exerting pressure on illegal mines owners, the state government has stopped mining activites at 69 iron ore and manganese mines following detection of illegal mining by the task force constituted under the chairmanship of chief secretary, TK Mishra. The mines are located in Joda, Koida, Rourkela and Keonjhar areas …
ROURKELA: The mild form of H1N1 virus seems to be gripping newer areas with nearly 100 villagers of Tileimunda in Rajgangpur block showing influenza-like symptoms. However, underplaying the incident, doctors attributed the scare to
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has identified 69 illegally operated mines and asked their owners to stop operations forthwith. Identification of illegally operated mines is done by a task force constituted by the State Government in October. The task force is headed by Chief Secretary TK Mishra. The maximum number of …
ROURKELA: Even as the harvesting time is nearing, over 1.66 lakh medium and marginal farmers in the tribal-dominated Sundargarh district are staring at bleak time. As per official reports, all 262 gram panchayats and 17 blocks have been affected by water-stress condition with the district receiving 29 per cent less …
BHUBANESWAR: Orissa recorded its first Influenza A H1N1 cases on Tuesday with two persons testing positive. Lab tests at the National Institute for Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED), Kolkata, confirmed the flu in Ratikanta Nayak (28) of Soro in Balasore and Amit Singh, a student of NIT, Rourkela. Both had …
ROURKELA: AMID reports of swine flu scare spreading in Orissa, the tribal-dominated Sundargarh district has taken precautionary measures to face the menace effectively. There has been no established positive case of the influenza, yet leaving nothing to chance the district health and veterinary administration have swung into action. Accordingly, Rourkela-based …
ROURKELA: That ground water resources are depleting by the day in the Steel City is no more a secret. But the grim scenario is yet to wake up the local authorities from their slumber. Residents of slum pockets including Gopabandhupali, Madhusudanpali, Tiklanagar, Balughat, Malgodam etc are often seen scrambling for …
SAIL, the largest steel producer in India, is preparing to modernise and expand its facilities in its golden jubilee year. AT a time of great global uncertainty in the commodity markets one company has stood firm and delivered unprecedented profits in the volatile steel industry. It is India
The major steel towns built in the wake of the Second Five-Year Plan were to be "temples' to India's industrial future and secular "modernity'; but soon they were desecrated by ethnic and communal violence. Focusing on two of them, this article shows that the extent of the violence was markedly …
Mandiakudar is a rural area near Rourkela, the steel city of Orissa. A large number of mini cement plants are in operation in and around Rourkela. The particulate matters of the dust exhausted from the cement plants are released to the air and it creates considerable environmental pollution. (2007)
Tilomajhi and Andharmajhi from Kalahandi, Orissa, were appointed as special police by the government of Orissa, entrusted with the power to break any country liquor pot they come across. Both have been consistently waging a crusade against daru (liquor) for many years. Says Andharmajhi, "I have been fighting against liquor …
WITH the Bejing World Conference of Women, 1995, taking off on September 4, different parts of India saw a flood of meetings, conferences and seminars. The Adivasi women's conference in Rourkela, Orissa was held from June 18- 20, 1995. The conference was mainly organised by groups working in the Adivasi …
The iron hand of the law has fastened on the Rourkela steel plant. Owned by the Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL), it has been served a show-cause notice for bucking the Anti-Pollution Act. Ten units of the plant have been found to be emitting excessive iron and coal particles, …
