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 new mine is estimated to have bauxite reserve of over 70 million tonnes.
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.
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 chosen as target sites.
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.
KORAPUT: People and the villages in the periphery of NALCO at Damanjodi in Koraput district could enjoy the benefits of real development to a greater extent if the village leaders, district administration and NALCO authorities who are the three key players responsible for the growth to happen could bring better collaboration among themselves, said Chitta Ranjan Pradhan, the Chief Managing Director
BHUBANESWAR: Congress has demanded supply of rice at Re 1 a kilogram in backward districts of Orissa by the State Government as the Centre has increased subsidy from Rs 11 to Rs 13 a kg.
BHUBANESWAR: The recent spells of rain though widespread is not enough to control the pest attack on standing kharif crop. Fresh areas are coming under pest attack and paddy crop in several blocks of Jeypore sub-division of Koraput district is affected by swarming caterpillars.
The water level of Mahanadi showed a rising trend following heavy rains triggered by a low pressure as three more persons died due to flash floods and rainrelated incidents on Wednesday.
Worst hit were southern districts Koraput, Malkangiri, Rayagada and Ganjam as many places remained cut off with flash floods in hilly streams and rivulets breaching and submerging roads.
