BHADRAK: Migration is no longer confined to KBK region. The search for better life and livelihood has had thousands of people of Bhadrak district migrate to various states.

PARADIP: The ongoing impasse over the Posco project has taken its toll on mental health of the villagers of Dhinkia, Gobindpur and Patana. Aggrieved with the loss of their treasure troves, the betel vines which are presently being demolished, many villagers have lost their mental balance.

The longstanding dilemma of how to best ensure the survival of one of India’s extant prehistoric peoples—the Jarawas of the Andaman islands—and their traditions is again occupying centrestage.

Participation of people from the general category in the government

Jharkhand has been granted Rs 432 crore to construct 10,000 anganwadi centres over the next five years and fight an alarmingly high incidence of anaemia among women and small girls.

The money, granted by the 13th Finance Commission to the state welfare department, assumes significance as of the 38,432 existing anganwadi centres in the state, only 17,000 have their own buildings.

KOLKATA, 4 JULY: Sunderbans will get the country's first floating library meant for people residing on the fringes of the mangrove forest.
A local NGO, in collaboration with the West Bengal Sarva Siksha Mission, is launching the first-of-its-kind floating library on a motorised boat.

With the Supreme Court directing the government to allocate additional five million tonnes of foodgrain to 150 poorest districts across the country, the Planning Commission has given two different lists of such districts to a committee appointed by the apex court.

Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia was learnt to have sent two separate lists to Justice D P Wadhwa Commi

The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has found loopholes in the relief and rehabilitation package offered to villagers affected by the Tarapur atomic power station but said that the government would soon rectify the problem.

The Union ministry of statistics and programme implementation