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 the State Government in consultation with the Planning Commission with
BHAWANIPATNA: The delay in the implementation of Sakhar Bharat Adult Literacy Programme in Kalahandi has raised a question mark on the success of the programme in the given time frame.
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 people had died of cholera and diarrhoea in the State as on September 15.
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 people had died of cholera and diarrhoea in the State as on September 15.
In a reiteration of its earlier stand, Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) told the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) that it had not breached any regulatory norms at the site of its alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Orissa's Kalahandi district.
The company was today called for a personal hearing by the ministry, where it gave the supporting documents.
ON August 24, Jairam Ramesh, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests, uploaded on the Ministry's website the text of his detailed decision rejecting the application from Vedanta Resources for forest clearance to start bauxite mining in Orissa's Niyamgiri hills.
THE August 24 decision of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) refusing to allow mining in the Niyamgiri hills jointly by the Orissa Mining Corporation and Sterlite Industries (India) Limited, a Vedanta Group company, has given a boost to the movements against displacement of people and illegal mining and land acquisition for various mineral-based industries in violation of land ac
Cuttack: The Odisha High Court on Tuesday asked the state government to file a status report on the outbreak of cholera and diarrhoea diseases in each affected district.
A division bench of the court comprising Chief Justice V Gopalgowda and Justice Indrajit Mahanty, while adjudicating over a PIL filed by an advocate of the court, directed the state government to file the status report and po
THE National Environment Appellate Authority (NEAA) has faulted the environment ministry for the manner in which environmental clearance was granted to Vedanta
Even though Vedanta Resources has initiated the process of saving its plant from closure, the Orissa government is yet to take a decision on the revival of the Niyamgiri bauxite mines in Kalahandi district.
Acting on the report of the Saxena Committee and the recommendation of the Forest Advisory Committee, the Union ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) withdrew the forest and environment
