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Coal crisis in Nalco

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KORAPUT: Nalco, the Navaratna award winning company at Damanjodi, is all set for closure if immediate arrangements are not made to make coal available for the plant.
According to sources two boiler plants of the company have already been closed and the single boiler plant which was running at present with the least amount of coal available with the management would not last for more than two days, the sources added. While the company was losing a production of 2500 tons of alumina everyday ,the company has already lost at least Rs.5 crores in the last two days as the two boiler plants stopped operating. But a greater loss is inevitable if the plants were to be shut down completely as it would need time and money to clean up the plant, sources added. The concern among operators is that even if rake of coal starts from Korba as an alternative arrangement , it would take at least three days to reach the plant.

Blood donation camp

Sasanko Sekhar Panda, Commandant , OSAP, Koraput, inaugurated a blood donation camp in the OSAP colony on Tuesday. The camp was organized by Amo Odisha.

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Naxalite arrested

KORAPUT: Erru Kendraka , a naxalite from Mangalpur village in Narayanpatna block of Koraput district was arrested by Koraput district police in the late hours of Tuesday night from a hide out in the block, Deepak Kumar, SP of Koraput said.
Kendraka was a hard core naxalite and was holding the position of a commander of the section of naxalites operational in the region.
While he was an expert in making and operating landmines, he was also involved in all the five murders that were carried out in the region over the last few months, he added.

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Meet on anti-bauxite mining in Maliparvat region

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Surakhya Samiti plans demonstration on August 9

KORAPUT: A meeting of the Maliparvat Surakhya Samiti was organised in the office of the Koraput Indigence Liberation Front (KILF) at Semiliguda today to discuss the future course of action of the anti- bauxite mining movement in the Maliparvat region of Semiliguda block in Koraput district. While the meeting was attended by 7 sarpanches and scores of sympathisers and supporters of the movement, it was decided to organise a greater rally and demonstration in the region on August 9, the Quit India Movement day this year while asking Hindalco to quit from mining in the region, he added.

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Lightning kills one

KORAPUT: Lightning killed Milaka Penta, 26, of Mintaguda, in Bandhugaon block of Koraput district today. The lightning had struck him while he was working in the field. - Correspondent

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Naveen Patnaik , CM , Orissa Visits Malkangiri.
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Naveen announces sops for kin of slain policemen

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He reviews the law and order situation at Malkangiri

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik paying homage to the martyrs at Malkangiri on Sunday.


BERHAMPUR: In the midst of tears and wails of family members of policemen killed in the landmine blast at MV- 126 even the Orissa Chief Minister, Naveen Patnaik could not restrain his emotions during his visit to Malkangiri on Sunday.
The Chief Minister had reached Malkangiri by helicopter with a series of sops for the bereaved families in hand. The whole Malkangiri town was under the strict vigil of heavily armed police patrols. After getting down Mr. Patnaik reached the martyrs’ memorial at Special Operation Group (SOG) training ground pay his respects to the 17 SOG jawans killed in the recent landmine blast. Then he rushed to the office of the Malkangiri Superintendent of Police to meet the family members of the policemen killed just five days back.
He was to meet the families and hand over cheques worth Rs. 4 lakh to them. The wounds of parting were still ripe in the minds of family members most of whom broke down to tears before the Chief Minister. The aged mothers who had lost their sons as well as the young widows had a single sentence on their mouth when they accepted the cheque from the Chief Minister, “Can this cheque compensate what we have lost”. The CM had no answer to this question except a few drops of tears that gathered up in the corners of his eyes.
He also tried to pacify the constables and havildars of Malkangiri who had irked after the recent naxal killings. Accepting one of their major demands Mr. Patnaik declared that the family members of all the 17 policemen killed in the landmine blast would be provided homestead land either in the district where they worked or in their home district. He also accepted a memorandum of the Constable and Havildar Association of Malkangiri district regarding their other demands. To boost the morale of these policemen he declared that all possible measures were being taken strengthen the police force against the naxals.
Later he held a high-level meeting with the administrative and police officials at Malkangiri circuit house to review the progress of developmental projects as well as law and order in the district. Speaking to newsmen at Malkangiri, he reiterated that no one would be allowed to destroy the image of the Orissa as a peaceful State.
He said more local tribal youths would be recruited into the police force in naxal-infested districts like Malkangiri to thwart evil plans of naxals. He also added that recruitment norms like educational qualification might be relaxed for these tribal youths during their intake into police force. According to him the families of killed policemen would get the full salary till their date of retirement and one member of the family would get a Government job.

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Unique meet

KORAPUT: It was a unique poets’ meet as poets from Bolangir and Damanjodi participated in the poetry recitation session in Koraput by using their mobile phones. The event was organised by Koraput Sahitya Parivar .
While regular poetry recitation sessions were organised in the past by inviting poets and writers from all over the State to Koraput, it was the first time that poems were heard from other places with poets reciting their poems over mobile phones. Such events would enhance participation of poets in future, Narayan Panda, a writer of repute said.

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Investigation to The missing children at Rayagada
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Rayagada administration begins probe into possible child racket

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Children are being brought by NGOs promising better lifeSome 15 such NGOs have been identified till now

BERHAMPUR: The Rayagada district administration has started an investigation to find out all of a sudden some organisations and persons had started bringing small children from poor families of south Orissa to the district during last two months.
On Monday night a team of officials led by the Rayagada Sub-Collector, D. Jagannath located around 25 small children kept in a small room at Jagannathpur village of Mukundpur panchayat. The children were left in the care of a girl who knew little about the organisation and the persons who had brought the children to this place.
Some of these children were also from Kandhamal district. Although the children were brought from their homes with the lure of free education, food, and lodging for ten years no arrangements had been made for their education. They were living a miserable life.
It may be noted that Rayagada district administration is now trying to send back 68 children from Gajapati district to their parents, who were rescued from a temple.
Speaking to The Hindu over phone, Mr. Jagannath who is investigating into the affair said he smelled something fishy as all of a sudden within last two months some organisations had sprouted up in the district and they were bringing small children from different parts.
Till now they have identified 15 such organisations which are allegedly bringing children with promise of providing them good life. Two organisations from Kerala and some persons involved with these organisations are also under investigation as they have also started taking interest in small children of poor families during last few months.
“We have decided to make thorough enquiry of every organisation involved in this torture of small children in the name of social service,” Mr. Jagannath said.
But the real reason behind the whole thing is yet to be ascertained although it hints at a major racket involving paedophiles.

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Hari Pangi for HIV PAtients
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Experimenting with wonder herbs on HIV patients

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KORAPUT: Hari Pangi , a small tribal farmer from Tentuliguda in Semiliguda block of Koraput district has been treating patients for different diseases free of cost for the last many years.

Common ailments

While medicine was one of his passion and has answers to various common ailments, his contacts and associations with the people in civil society organisations, he could realise some of the basic needs of a HIV patient like increase in the immune strength that were required to live longer. And this was enough for his inquisitive mind to search some roots and herbs suitable for the purpose. At last he is now hopeful that he had found seven herbs and roots that were helpful and supportive to raise the immune strength of the body, blood formation and gain of weight in HIV patients. He has also started experimenting with two poor persons suffering from HIV infection who had left all their hopes for the complexity of receiving the benefits of services provided by the government. After 70 days of treatment with the powder prepared from the seven wonder herbs, these patients have shown good response, Mr. Pangi claims. While one of the patients had gained 13 kg . weight during the pe!
riod, none of the two had faced any serious problem or experienced prolonged illness. Their CD count is also being monitored and was expected to rise, he hoped. Looking at the successful development in these two patients, more number of people are approaching for treatment.

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Many witness Bahuda Jatra in Puri

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Police did not take chances in the light of the recent stampede

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Religious fervour: Devotees pull the chariots of Lord Balabhadra at Bahuda Yatra, the return journey of the Lord to the temple, in Puri on Saturday. —


PURI: There is no place for panic where faith prevails. The death of six persons in a stampede on ‘Srigundicha’ day of the ‘rath yatra’ on July 4 has no impact on the devotees who thronged to Puri to witness ‘Bahuda Jatra’. The ‘jatra’ is the return journey of the deities of Sri Jagannath, Balabhadra, Subhadra and Sudarsan on their three chariots from Gundicha temple to Srimandir or the main temple.
The large open space near Gundicha temple called ‘Saradhabali’ was again jam-packed by lakhs of devotees. In the light of the recent tragedy, the police and the administration were extra cautious. The cordon around the chariots was more tight. Police teams were positioned at strategic points to avoid stampede.
VIPs, however, had their secure and comfortable points to witness the ‘jatra’. But for common man, faith seemed to be the shield of protection.

‘Faith matters’

Over 70-year-old Kamini Rath of Koraput said that she had no fear though she heard of the stampede. She witnessed the ‘Srigundicha’ and was here again to witness the ‘Bahuda Jatra’. “The desire to see the rath yatra of the Lord makes all pain and problems disappear from the minds,” she said.
Rangadhar Panda, a reporter of a news channel, who was an eyewitness to the stampede, felt that the calmness exhibited by the crowd in Puri was surely noteworthy. Despite the stampede and death of people, the ‘rath yatra’ was not disrupted.
“Even people just a few metres away from the place of stampede were unfazed as they were engrossed in witnessing the rituals,” Mr. Panda said.
Loknath Dasmahapatra, a servitor of the Jagannath temple, said that equanimity in the minds of devotees even in the most unruly situation comes from faith.

Jatra celebrated

KORAPUT: Sarat Chandra Sahu, OIC of the town police station at Koraput was the uncle of Lord Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra , even though for a single day today.
As a matter of tradition of the Bahuda Jatra at Koraput, the OIC of the town police station gets a rare opportunity to serve the three Lords as their uncle every year during their return journey from Sri Gundicha temple to the main temple. While this was an example of participation of the district administration and more specifically of the police in the festivals and traditions of the public, the tenure of any policeman as the OIC at Koraput remains memorable for this very reason, Mr. Sahu said. The police couple observed fasting for the day before offering new clothes and fruits apart from various sweets on behalf of the people of the region before the Gods on the chariot. The offering after being served on the chariot was distributed among the people. The joy of getting pieces of sweets and fruits that were offered on the chariot by pulling from each other’s hands gives more pleasure and adds special memories to remember Bahuda Jatra at Sabara Srikhetra, Bidyadhar C!
houdhury, a local resident said. Adding one more specialty to this year’s Bahuda Jatra at Koraput , Gangadhar Nanda , eminent historian and writer from Jeypore donated scores of rare books and a life size photograph of Vikram Dev Verma , Maharaja of Jeypore kingdom to the temple library which was received by Krushna Chandra Panigrahy, secretary of the temple in front of the chariot .

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Fear grips villagers in naxal areas

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Chief Minister urged to check naxalism and police harassment

KORAPUT: “I want Sada Palaka, my 12-year-old son, back,” cried Samaya Palaka, a resident of Pedda Ekiti village in Koraput district on Friday. The young child was lifted by the police along with Basana Pidika, Lachama Pidika, Suka Pidika, Gumpha Huika, Soni Tadingi and five other persons from the village last Tuesday, he said.
“All of them, including my husband were carried into the police vehicle in the early hours while they were coming out of the houses to work in the field,” Bunda Pidika, said a woman.
Hundreds of men and women along with their children from Pedda Ekiti, Jamuduwalasa, Laupadar, Manjariguda, Borigi and Nangalbeda villages of Narayanpatna block approached the District Collector and the Superintendent of Police of Koraput to bail out their relatives apart from discussing the troublesome lives they were leading in the naxal-infested region of the district.
In a memorandum addressed to the Chief Minister, which was submitted to the District Collector, the villagers asked him to find an effective solution for a peaceful leaving in the locality.
The memorandum requested the government to eliminate naxalism from the region. However, the role of the police in harassing the villagers also needed to be checked, Ratan Pidika, one of the villagers, said. People were living in fear from both sides, he added. Movement of police in the villages also was of a great concern. Lachana Tadingi, a 6-year-old child died on Thursday by falling on a sharp stone for the fear of police who were moving in their village in search of naxalites, Mahanda Saunta, another old man from the village, alleged. The memorandum signed by more than one hundred villagers. The District Collector assured them of discussing their issues at different levels.

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‘Collective sessions bring out the best’

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KORAPUT: “Collective discussions of the writers and poets in Koraput district is commendable ,” Chandrasekahar Rath, eminent writer from Bhubaneswar said at Koraput.
Welcoming the increasing numbers of Oriya magazines being published in the State, he expressed concern over the lack of developing practices in the State facilitating proper criticism so as to appreciate the change in the literary world.

Nostalgic

Recollecting the memories of his discussions on the Puri beach along with Jeevanananda Pani and Sarat Mahanty, the two immortal names in the world of Oriya literary creations, he said that the best pieces of writings in their respective lives had came out of those collective sessions.
However, the best was not possible without a proper feedback from the conscious readers, he said. Eminent writers like Narayan Panda, Chittaranjan Mishra, Pritidhara Samal and Rabi Satpathy were present.

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Steel chariot for the deities

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KORAPUT: Wood is more precious than steel for the continuous degradation of forest cover in the region, Rama Chandra Sahu, architect of the steel chariot of Khatiguda in Nabarangpur district feels.
While the three Lords Jagannath and Balabhadra and Subhadra would travel to Sri Gundicha temple sitting in the chariots made by wood on Friday, people in Khatiguda will pull the steel chariot as a matter of practice being adopted for the last five years, Prithvi Paikray, a local resident said. The chariot was designed by Rama Chandra Sahu , an engineer in 2001 and it had replaced the earlier wooden chariot since then, he added.The steel chariot does not face the problem of arranging new pieces every year even for maintenance . However, the height of the steel chariot has been reduced to 40 ft. from the earlier height of 52ft.

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