Stories by Basudev Mahapatra, a journalist from the eastern India, on Environment, Polity and Sustainability.
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December 14, 2012
Poverty and surplus fund situation go hand-in-hand in Odisha
December 08, 2012
Transparency in Bureaucracy holds key to make Decentralised Planning a reality

Not only in Odisha but in India as well, people in power are always hungry and passionate for power. They don’t want to share the power with anybody else. This is why decentralisation of Power is still a myth in Odisha and in most of India leaving only a small part in a relatively better state.
November 21, 2012
Naveen's silence raises more questions about illegal mining in Odisha

Mining outside the lease hold areas without any formal approval and without forest and environmental clearance is the major irregularity in Odisha mining sector that has been continuing at least since last one decade. And, when it comes to forest clearance and approval under environmental protection act, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik himself was the forest and environment Minister for seven years, from May 2004 to May 2011.
October 06, 2012
New face of Motherhood: Mother sold baby boy to get jeans and mobile phone set

September 09, 2012
Conflict results in displacement of Tribal families in Koraput
While movements by tribal people to restore their rights over the land and forest are taking up to extremist ideologies, the tribal people not accepting to such ideas are becoming the worst victims of the conflict and such extremist movements.

Jambuli Maleka, a woman leader of Bandhugaon block of
Odisha’s Koraput district and the Naib-Sarpanch (vice-Sarpanch) of Kumbarput
Grampanchayat, was a peace loving woman and always wanted to lead development
and live with her community. But destiny had something else to offer.
The supporters of the movement led by Nachika Linga, a
radical tribal youth heading the Chasi Mulia Adivasi sangh (CMAS), came to the
village Kopakhal and asked the villagers to join their organisation and the
movement to ensure rights of tribal people on the land and the forest, as
claimed by the CMAS and its leader Nachika Linga. The denial of the villagers
made their life horrible with atrocious behaviour and continuous torture by
CMAS Members.
September 02, 2012
Odisha Industrial Security Force Bill 2012 may lead to more exploitations inside Industries

August 22, 2012
Climate change badly affects agriculture, threatens food security in Odisha

August 07, 2012
Odisha under US Scanner for delaying justice to victims of Kandhamal violence
Placing the violence of
Kandhamal in Odisha as one of the worst of its kind in the country and listing
it among three major instances of violence like the Gujarat violence of 2002
and the Anti-Sikh riots of 1984, the commission’s report mentions that, “In December
2007, in Kandhamal, Orissa, violence between Christians and Hindus resulted in
several deaths, dozens of injuries, churches and homes destroyed and
displacement. The murder of an influential Hindu political leader in August
2008 sparked a further violent campaign targeting Christians, even though
Maoist extremists claimed responsibility.
July 04, 2012
Violence Against Women: Issue of women safety needs to be seen from social perspective
Since the murder of a woman
journalist Chhabirani in the year 1980 till date, thousands of women in Odisha
have fallen victim to the heinous instincts of men. As per claims made by the President
of Odisha Congress’ women wing on the basis of a white paper tabled in State
Assembly, about 4,100 cases under section 376 (rape) were registered in
different police stations of Odisha during last three years. The statistics is
not only shocking but is also loud to explain how women have become vulnerable
to the unmanly instincts of men in the society.
Maoist hostage crisis in India: government indifference makes Maoists give up on mediation
Mediation has been successful at bringing down levels of violence and
bringing popular welfare and social justice demands onto the political
agenda. These gains are under threat as the government fails to take the
process seriously.
Banned
since 2009 as a terrorist organisation Communist Party of India (Maoist) armed
cadres now have a presence in more than half of India’s 29 States. Maoists have
adopted the tactics of abduction of civil servants and lawmakers since the
1980s. In the last 15 months, Maoists have made three abductions in Odisha and
one in Chhattisgarh. However, while the earlier abductions were aimed at a
prisoner swap, the recent abductions have raised the possibility of
establishing peace by minimising violence and establishing dialogue.

February 19, 2012
Climate Change may force Olive Ridley Turtles to abandon Odisha beaches for mass nesting
Higher
degree of erosion at many points of Odisha's coastline poses serious threat to
the routine activities of marine turtles and raises doubts about the continuity
of the tradition of mass nesting by the Olive Ridley marine turtles called
‘Arribada’. The nesting grounds are being squeezed alarmingly and the coastal
vegetation that plays a vital role in providing food to lakhs of mother turtles
and their hatchlings is vanishing rapidly because of coastal erosion and
aggressive persuasion of development projects like port infrastructure by
Odisha government across the coastline. In regard to the nesting activities
this season (2012), things look quite uncertain as the beaches near Gahirmatha
river mouth, Devi river mouth and Rushikulya river mouth, that have been the
regular nesting grounds for the turtles, have lost most of their space in the
Bay of Bengal because of erosion.
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