Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
BHUBANESWAR: The Ministry of Environment and Forests has sanctioned stage-II and final level clearance to National Aluminium Company Limited (Nalco) for diversion of 110.3 hectares of forest land for bauxite mining lease in Koraput. The forest diversion was required for the renewal of its mining lease for 20 years in …
BHUBANESWAR: After initial refusal to sanction funds under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) to the six districts under CBI scanner, the Centre on Monday released Rs 170 crore for the wage employment programme.
PARADIP: The district administration has decided to go ahead with land acquisition for Posco steel project on Wednesday despite protests from anti-Posco groups. Land acquisition will be carried out with the help of the Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (IDCO), said District Collector Narayan Chandra Jena. The administration on Tuesday conducted …
Montek lauds government for achieving progress in several fields The Annual Plan for Orissa for 2011-12 was finalised at Rs. 15,200 crore at a meeting held here on Wednesday between Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. The Plan size marks a substantial increase …
BHUBANESWAR: Orissa's literacy rate might have grown exponentially in the last decade to touch 73.45 per cent, almost on par with the National average of 74.04, but the Naxal hotbeds of the State continue to wallow in illiteracy. Literacy rate in the Maoist-infested districts of Malkangiri, Koraput and Nabarangpur still …
BHUBANESWAR: State-run National Aluminium Company Ltd (NALCO) Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the union mines ministry for the financial year 2011-12, the company said. NALCO's acting chairman-cum managing director (CMD) B.L. Bagra signed the agreement with Mines Secretary Vijay Kumar in New Delhi, a company statement said. …
The Naveen Patnaik Government has made a major course correction in its populist scheme. The rice Rs. 2-a-kg scheme would no longer include a privilege section - the above poverty line (APL) families in the backward KBK region. The privilege section enjoying the largesse included income tax payers, members of …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has decided to seek the help of Water and Power Consultancy Services (WAPCOS) for setting up mini and micro hydel projects for generation of clean and cheap electricity. A decision to this effect was taken at a high-level meeting presided over by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik …
When patdehri (chief priest) Halu Thanapati, 68, gets possessed, he hastily dives into the badan khaal—the yoni of Goddess Duarseni, the supreme deity of his tribe—as though to suck the rare wisdom that ensures ‘existence’ on earth. The yoni is actually the mouth of a natural tunnel, which is independent …
Paper industry generates green house gases in many stage of its operations; there is scope for implementation of CDM project preferably in forestry sector. JKPL's A/R CDM project under LULUCF category aims to GHG mitigation and sell emission reductions earned through carbon sequestration in the established agro-forestry plantations. JKPL, Rayagada …
Something is stirring in paddy fields across India. New seeds, new crop management techniques and newly minted food security policies are about to hit the countryside. Not all of the changes that are being forged in Krishi Bhawan, headquarters of the Union agriculture ministry, in the top-flight research institutions across …
Jai Sri is a common greeting in the Koraput countryside these days. A Paraja tribal woman working in her fields, a passing motorcyclist driving through the rutted lanes, a teacher heading for his school, they all greet each other and visitors with a Jai Sri. It has nothing to do …
JEYPORE: Farmers of Koraput district are facing distress sale of paddy with the State Civil Supplies Corporation yet to release funds for procurement. Middlemen are buying paddy from hapless farmers at `900 a quintal, `100 less than the minimum support price (MSP) in various mandis. The district administration had fixed …
This paper examines the spatial pattern of poverty in India and tries to understand how multiple deprivation leads to reproduction of poverty, with a particular focus on forest-based economies in central-eastern India.
KORAPUT: Villagers in the periphery of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) in Koraput are irked over the company's lackadaisical attitude in providing adequate health services. They have urged the Chief Minister to frame specific guidelines on services to be provided to the periphery villages. Established in 1969 after acquiring over 3,000 …
BHUBANESWAR: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has demanded approval of the eight-year perspective plan for the KBK (undivided Kalahandi, Balangir and Koraput districts) region, submitted to the Centre in January 2009. In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Chief Minister said that the plan for 2009-17 was prepared by …
BHUBANESWAR: Are some tribal groups in Koraput and Mayurbhanj on the brink? The answer seems to be in affirmative if the rate of child mortality among the tribals is any indication. The child mortality rate of the tribals in 1997-98 was 44 but it has surged to over 62 per …
Contaminated water sources and the virtual absence of health care claim dozens of lives in the State, now in the grip of cholera. COME monsoon and the backward regions of Orissa are in the grip of water-borne diseases. This year too has been no different. According to official figures, 150 …
Contaminated water sources and the virtual absence of health care claim dozens of lives in the State, now in the grip of cholera. COME monsoon and the backward regions of Orissa are in the grip of water-borne diseases. This year too has been no different. According to official figures, 150 …
BHUBANESWAR: As people keep falling ill or even drop dead in the tribal pockets of undivided Koraput, the politics of mango kernel has come back to haunt the State. Both the government and the Congress have begun quibbling over facts and figures as the epidemic keeps spreading dangerously. Over the …
