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.
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 state of poverty and hunger.
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: 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 date.
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.
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.
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.
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.
