Govt.-controlled organisation will continue to accept kendu leaf The Odisha government has handed over trade rights of kendu (tendu) leaf, an important minor forest produce, to residents of six villages in Kalahandi district. “Residents of six villages in the Kegaon range of the Bhawanipatna kendu leaf division are free to …
Akshaya Kumar Sahoo The Orissa government has constituted Lanjigarh Project Area Development Foundation, a special purpose vehicle, for the progress and development of primitive tribal communities like Kutia Kondh and Dongria Kondh RESPONDING TO the Supreme Court's directives, the Orissa government has constituted the much-awaited Lanjigarh Project Area Development Foundation …
BHAWANIPATNA: The current climate has come as a relief for the cotton farmers of Kalahandi district who have been panicky over the prospects of paddy crop due to a long dry spell and fickle monsoon. According to the Agriculture Department assessment here yesterday, the harvest is likely to be satisfactory. …
AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO Vedanta is sourcing bauxite from Gujarat and its BALCO project in Chhattisgarh , so it is paying hefty sums on the transportation. Procedural delays, bureaucratic hassles and lack of political will may result in the possibility of yet another foreign direct investment (FDI) project shying away from …
This essay contends that the economic liberalization, privatization and globalization (LPG) model of development in India is virtually depriving the tribal people and other agriculture dependent poor people of their traditional means of sustainable livelihood by promoting the unregulated growth of mineral-based industries in the tribal regions of India. In …
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, …
Akshaya Kumar Sahoo GHASIAN MAJHI Over five thousand people in 13 panchayats under Lanjigarh and Bhawanipatna blocks in Orissa, who are choleraaffected, are waging a battle between life and death. 50 adults have perished of cholera in the last one month. , 20, a resident of Miangpadar in the poverty-stricken …
BHAWANIPATNA: Tribals are more prone to infectious diseases due to malnutrition. An Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) bulletin said this in October 2003. In 2009 too this holds good in some of the tribal pockets of Kalahandi which are witnessing gastroenteritis and malaria in epidemic proportions. A senior doctor …
BHUBANESWAR: Even as the State Government claimed to have controlled diarrhoea in Kalahandi where the disease has claimed 27 lives in three blocks, reports of more deaths from Bargarh district has put the administration in a tizzy. Reports reaching here said that there have been several deaths in Bargarh district …
The Orissa government has resorted to announcing cash incentives for bringing cholera patients in Kalahandi to hospital as its declaration of a cholera outbreak in the district has failed to bring about the same. With 26 people dying of diarrhoea in the last month in the district, the state government …
BHUBANESWAR: Outbreak of diarrhoea in Kalahandi district has assumed an epidemic proportion with 26 villagers reported to have died in less than a month while scores of people have been admitted in different hospitals. Although several doctors
Almost a month after the outbreak of gastroenteritis in some villages of backward Kalahandi district, claiming 38 lives so far, the Orissa government on Monday sent a team of doctors to the affected villages. The state government at the same time rejected that the outbreak had assumed epidemic proportions. The …
Rabindra Nath Choudhury Aug. 31: A team of medical experts from the Centre on Monday arrived at Bhawanipatna in the poverty-stricken district of Kalahandi in Orissa to take stock of the situation after an outbreak of diarrhoea which killed 24 people in the region over the past one month. The …
BHUBANESWAR: As reports of more diarrhoea deaths trickle out of Kalahandi district, 38 till date, a Central team is arriving on Monday to take stock of the situation. The epidemic is sweeping the remote areas and still remains unchecked for the past one month and the administration seems to be …
BHUBANESWAR: Congress has demanded supply of rice at Re 1 a kilogram in backward districts of Orissa by the State Government as the Centre has increased subsidy from Rs 11 to Rs 13 a kg. Orissa Pradesh Congress Committee working president and former Union minister Bhakta Charan Das said that …
BHUBANESWAR: Indravati Hydro Power Station (IHPS) which was shut down yesterday following objection from the Water Resources Department resumed power generation today following intervention of Minister of State for Energy Atanu Sabyasachi. The closure of IHPS and scaling down of generation from Upper Kolab triggered a shortage of about 1,200 …
S Kalyana Ramanathan / London August 05, 2009, 1:12 IST UK-based metals major Vedanta Resources came under more pressure as it was revealed today that one of its group companies, Balco, is a supplier of refined aluminum to the Indian defence sector. This information is now being used by human …
New Delhi, Aug 4 Centre today warned the Vedantagroup that it can be prosecuted if it resorts to "illegalmining" of bauxiteat Nyomgiri in Orissa since the AnilAgarwal-controlled firm has been given only in-principleapproval. "They have got environmental approval in-principle. Theyhave not got full forest clearance. If mining is taking placein …
This picture, released by ActionAid on Tuesday, shows demonstrators during a candlelight vigil in New Delhi on Monday night to express their solidarity with the Kondh tribe against proposed mining activities on Niyamgiri hills. NEW DELHI: Five members of the Kondh tribe of Orissa have held a candlelight vigil at …
