Stories by Basudev Mahapatra, a journalist from the eastern India, on Environment, Polity and Sustainability.
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Showing posts with label Administration. Show all posts
September 12, 2018
August 09, 2018
Warning for Odisha Govt: 56K Adolescent Girls Drop Out of School
Two ministries of the Odisha government are at loggerheads over the
dropout rate of ‘adolescent girls’ from school, in the state. Last week,
based on a baseline survey, the department of Women and Child
Development and Mission Shakti (WCD-MS) claimed that nearly 56,000
girls, in the age group of 11-14, are out of school.
January 26, 2018
Chronic Kidney Disease Plagues Rural Odisha, but Why?
At
47, G Dharma Rao of Badaputi village in Chhatrapur block of Odisha’s
Ganjam district suddenly finds himself becoming a burden on his family.
He was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease (CKD) two years ago. Dharma is now unable to do any work and is undergoing dialysis in a Bhubaneswar hospital twice a week.
“We
have already spent over 5 lakh rupees for his treatment by taking hand
loans from relatives and others at an interest of 2 percent/month,” said
G Aimma (42), Dharma’s wife.
May 31, 2017
11 Yrs Later, Govt Washes Hands Off Kalinga Nagar Tribals’ Deaths
Eleven
years after the police firing in Kalinga Nagar of Odisha’s Jajpur
district where a dozen tribal people and a police personnel died at the
spot, the communities were hammered again when the report submitted by
the commission of inquiry under retired High Court Justice Pradyumna
Kumar Mohanty did not indict any government official for it.
The
incident took place on 2 January 2006, when trigger-happy police sprayed
bullets against people agitating against land acquisition for the TATA
Steel project.
February 10, 2017
Abandoned Niyamgiri villages tell sad tale of wholesale migration
Five abandoned villages in the Niyamgiri
hills that have now been reclaimed by the forest indicate a complete
failure of governance and lack of the state’s reach and action among the
Dongria Kondh indigenous people

After walking nearly 7 km from the road head, you would reach a place on the banks of Panimunda stream in Muniguda administrative block of Odisha’s Rayagada district, where Ankurbali village once used to exist. On the slopes of lower Niyamgiri hills, the place is now a part of the forest with no remnants visible today. Till a decade ago, people of the Dongria Kondh tribe inhabited the village.
Although revenue records and voter lists still mention Ankurbali, the
village no longer exists. At least four other neighbouring villages of
Umbesi, Uchukumba, Haimandi and Dahli under the Shibapadar gram
panchayat (village council) of Muniguda block do not exist physically.
December 14, 2012
Poverty and surplus fund situation go hand-in-hand in Odisha
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