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 …
Dilip Bisoi Bhubaneswar, THE GOVT MAY THINK OF LINKING SASUBAHUMALI MINES WITH THE VEDANTA PROJECT. SASUBAHUMALI IS ALSO EMBROILED IN LITIGATION With the Niyamgiri mines out of reach, the Orissa government may think of allotting an alternative bauxite mines to Vedanta Resources in order to save at leastthe1-million-tonnerefinery at Lanjigarh. …
Debabrata Mohanty At a ration shop in Raygada, a town in the Kalahandi-Bolangir-Koraput hunger zone of Orissa, a tribal hands over a smart ration card, a little larger than a PAN card, to the shopkeeper who swipes it in a card reader. The person then places his thumb on a …
India has about 55.27 million hectares (m ha) of wasteland. These are not suitable for any purpose and are exposed to the vagaries of nature like weathering, gully erosion, etc. The Department of Land Resources of the Ministry of Rural Development has been implementing three area development programmes since 1995, …
BHUBANESWAR: The State has the potential to generate 1,700 MW green power from wind but the Government has failed to tap the natural source. Once a power surplus State, Orissa is facing acute shortage of power due to massive hydro failure. Hydro power is the mainstay of the State and …
JEYPORE: The Koraput district administration has started the procurement process for rabi paddy from 16 mandis since yesterday. About 20,000 hectares were cultivated after water from the upper Kolab irrigation project was released for irrigation in January and February. The district unit of Civil Supplies Department, which recently reviewed the …
Unimpressed by the progress made under the well-known KBK assistance plan, where over Rs 1,600 crore has been spent over the last decade, a concerned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the Planning Commission to immediately carry out a fresh time-bound re-evaluation of the programme with special focus on the …
BHUBANESWAR: This April, Forest Survey of India recorded at least 960 incidents of forest fire in Orissa, as captured by the satellite. With mercury shooting up across the State, unleashing a prolonged dry spell, recurring outbreak of fires has wildlife, forest resources and administration at its mercy. By the admission …
JEYPORE: The repeated agitations of farmers for potash supply bore fruit with the Agriculture Department dispatching over 5,000 tonnes of the fertiliser today to government authorised dealers in Jeypore. Koraput Collector RP Patil had discussed the potash crisis with agencies and asked the Agriculture Department to send the required potash …
KORAPUT: The villagers of Sibaguda under Konga gram panchayat in Jeypore block have threatened not to cooperate with the census enumerators till their demands are conceded. They alleged that the village had seen several elections and census enumerations in the name of development but it lacks even basic amenities till …
Efforts on to check recurrence of naxal attack on bauxite mines BERHAMPUR: Efforts are on by the NALCO to impede recurrence of the major naxals attack on its bauxite mines in Koraput district of Orissa on April 12 night in 2009. The Maoists had targeted the bauxite mines located on …
KORAPUT: The District Administration in Koraput seems to have geared up towards performing remarkably in NREGA in the coming days. Involving credible NGOs, the district is going for social audit of NREGA in the district. Social Audit is an important means of wider transparency in NREGA and the result of …
The Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) here, in association with the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), Chennai, and other organisations, have launched an initiative to end chronic hunger in the Kalahandi-Bolangir-Koraput (KBK) regions of Orissa by 2015. The initiative is part of an integrated approach to achieve Millennium Development …
BHUBANESWAR: Koraput will soon be connected to the nationwide network of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) laboratories as it is chosen as an extension centre to have a pool of master trainers to train grassroots-level people in applied technologies in various fields. The extension centre would be presently …
Bhubaneswar, March 2: The Orissa government has cleared the proposal to lease a new bauxite mine in the southern district of Koraput to National Aluminimum Company Limited (Nalco), a central Navaratna public sector undertaking. The state government gave the nod to Nalco for the Pattangi mines after a decade. The …
The Orissa government plans to offer incentives to motivate officials reluctant to work in naxal areas. Though the government is yet to work out the package details, chief secretary T K Mishra said government employees posted in the naxal belt deserve incentives in line with the police. Seventeen of the …
BHUBANESWAR: The unique hilly floral and faunal diversity of Koraput, presumed as the origin of rice, will soon be designated a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System (GIAHS), on the lines of World Heritage Site, by Unesco. Koraput will be one of four such sites to get international recognition, the other …
The neglected and underutilized crops chosen for this study included finger millet (Eleusine coracana), Italian or foxtail millet (Setaria italica) and little millet (Panicum sumatrense). Two locations where these crops have been traditionally under cultivation and intrinsically linked with food security, livelihood and cultural identity of local tribal communities, were …
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 …
