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
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 1000, says the latest study by Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement in association with the World Health Organisation.
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.
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.
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.
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, viz.
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 failure of the monsoon upsets the energy availability.
