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 …
S Kalyana Ramanathan / London July 28, 2009, 0:53 IST Campaigners from Hamburg-based (Germany) think-tank World Future Council, along with British charity ActionAid, today protested against the Church of England and Middlesbrough Borough Council for investing their pension funds in UK-based metals and mining company Vedanta Resources Plc (with an …
Widespread pollution by the Vedanta refinery in Orissa raises serious questions about environmental monitoring. At first sight the images are picture perfect. There are gurgling streams, a rushing river, a tree-dotted landscape, all of which are partially covered in snow, the kind of destinations tour operators peddle every summer. Then …
The Niyamgiri Hills, which range over 250 kilometres across the districts of Rayagada, Kalahandi and Koraput in Orissa, are home to more than 8,000 Dongaria Kondhs and other tribals who are now wholeheartedly engaged in what they have been doing for centuries: defending their hills, forests and streams. This time, …
Bhubaneswar, June 7: London-based Vedanta Resources will start its controversial Niyamgiri (bauxite) mining project in Kalahandi soon. Chairman of the Vedanta Resources Anil Agrawal, who met chief minister Naveen Patnaik last night, told reporters:
Armed with 'Stage I' clearance, mining major Vedanta has announced its plan to start bauxite mining project in Orissa's Niyamgiri Hills within a month and to invest Rs 25,000 crore more for its aluminium units in the state in next two years. "We are going to start our bauxite mining …
A careful analysis of the computed Agricultural Development Indices for different districts of Orissa reveals that the four coastal districts (Balasore, Cuttack, Puri and Ganjam) and two districts of central table land area (Sambalpur and Bolangir) are agriculturally more advanced than other districts in the three reference years over three …
AkshayaKumar Sahoo In a socio-economically backward district like Kalahandi, where most people are not so well educated, Kshamanidhi could have got a job. But he did not do that and instead concentrated on agriculture. In 2008, Kshamanidhi got Rs 40,000 from mango cultivation, Rs 15,000 from jackfruit, Rs 15,000 from …
A man quenches his thirst at a drinking water shed in Balangir. BHAWANIPATNA: Kalahandi is in the grip of acute water crisis sans rains since September last. Most of the water sources have dried up and farmers are apprehending loss of paddy crops in many minor irrigation ayacut areas. Water …
Proceedings of the Public Hearing of M/S Vedanta Aluminium Limited for its expansion of Alumina Refinery from 1.0 MTPA to 6 .0 MTPA on 25.04.2009 at Village Belemba (Opposite Val Switch Yard), Lanjigarh, District Kalahandi. Proceeding of the Public Hearing of M/S Vedanta Aluminium Limited for its expansion of Alumina …
Proceeding of the public hearing of M/S Vedanta Aluminium limited for its expansion of alumina refinery from 1.0 mtpa to 6 .0 mtpa on 25.04.2009 at 10 a.m. at: village Belemba (opposite val switch yard), Lanjigarh, district Kalahandi.
BHUBANESWAR: A Plant, endemic to Himalayan region, has been spotted in the Eastern Ghats of Orissa leaving biologists puzzled. Corallodiscus batalin, the species, is known to grow at an altitude of 600 metres to 3600 metres above the sea level. In the past, the botanists recorded it in the Himalayas …
Bhubaneswar: Activists in favour of organic farming, in a letter to the chief minister, has alleged that non-organic Bt cotton in Kalahandi and Bolangir have witnessed poor yields this year. In letters addressed to chief minister, health minister and agriculture minister, the activists of Living Farms
Company jumped the gun to feed refinery starved of bauxite, they allege IN THE dead of night on January 7, two earthmoving vehicles were seen moving up the forest road of Niyamgiri Hills. Villagers of Semalbhatta were quick to conclude that the heavy vehicles were from the nearby Lanjigarh refinery …
BHAWANIPATNA: For the first time in the State, tribal farmers of Kalahandi have grown strawberries at Lanjigarh. They have another reason to cheer. Two decades back, the Lanjigarh area soil was favourable for horticulture but with continuous shifting cultivation, the quality of soil deteriorated. However, this time farmers through improved …
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
It was 1995-96 when elections were round the corner, a development saga christened KBK or Kalahandi, Balangir and Koraput Plan was unveiled. Its newer version Revised Long Term Action Plan (RLTAP) for the eight KBK comprising undivided Koraput, Balangir and Kalahandi districts was brought in 1998-99 in a sub-plan mode. …
The culvert over Hardajor nullah between Kegaon and Lanji in Golmunda block of Kalahandi district, which was washed away in heavy rains two years back. PURI: About seven lakh people of 122 GPs in 10 blocks of the district and over two lakh domestic animals were affected while paddy crop …
In a developing country like India, the development of rural economy through effective and proper management of common property resources (CPRs) such as forests has increasingly become an integral part of sustainable development policy in the past couple of decades. The recognition of community-based forest has led to the devolution …
