Bhubaneswar: With Space Based Information Support for Decentralized Planning (SIS-DSP), a new space-based technology providing useful data, the Odisha government has planned to use it for micro-lev
Grout material in recent years has made quantum advancement and researchers have made this material more application friendly. Grouts are finding increasing applications for checking seepage under dams and in repair work for old dams.
BHUBANESWAR/JAJPUR: With flood situation in four North Orissa districts remaining grim, the State Government on Saturday started air-dropping of food packets as 992 villages continued to be maroone
The major flood in rivers Brahmani and Baitarani has affected more than 20 lakh people in 10 districts of Orissa while many areas in the worst-affected Jajpur district have remained cut off.
Special Relief Commissioner's office said 17 persons died, mostly drowned, some of snakebite and in wall collapse — while two persons were reported missing in Angul and Keonjhar districts.
“It has come to the notice of the state government that on account of increased production and transportation of iron ore from the mines, specially in Joda and Koira areas, the environment and population of the area are being affected. It is necessary to develop a master plan for the areas to ensure that cumulative effect of the extraction from individual mines is within sustainable limits,” a state government notification said.
Bhubaneswar: In a fresh step towards increasing productivity of poor, the Odisha government has decided to implement Integrated Watershed Management Projects in backward districts along with the 14
A report from a sample survey of the functioning of the public distribution system in 12 villages in two districts in Orissa, a state usually associated with a poor PDS. While there are errors in exclusion and inclusion of households covered, there has been a vast improvement in operation of the PDS; below the poverty line households seem to be receiving their entitlements. The households also express a strong preference for distribution of grain over cash.
Bhubaneswar: Under attack for failing to take steps to stop illegal mining, the Odisha government has decided to undertake survey at two mining circles spread over Keonjhar and Sundargarh districts
ROURKELA: His 19 acres of farmland lies waste as the rapidly increasing mining activities in mineral-rich Koira block of Sundargarh district has ensured that Sudarshan Patra (32) works in the mines
