Naxalite arrested
KORAPUT: Arjun Kondagiri, a naxal militia from Sakiloba in Bandhugaon block of Koraput district was arrested today, Deepak Kumar, SP, Koraput said. He was involved many cases in the region including the murder of a political leader of Bandhugaon a few months back.
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Sunday, August 17, 2008
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Media Today:17th August-208
State urged to repair damaged roads
Correspondent
KORAPUT: The national highway between Koraput district head quarter and Jeypore, the business centre of the district has been the nightmare for the commuters over the past few days.
While the road which was laid fresh barely a few months back has been uprooted at many places in the short spell of rains, the condition of the old ones was no better.
The number of potholes could be counted from the traffic junction at Koraput to the entry point of Jeypore, causing hardship for the vehicles.
The journey of 22 km which till recently took barely 30 minutes, now takes not less than an hour to cover. However the worst affected portion on the road was in between pine research plantation area to the beginning of the ghat section while going from Koraput to Jeypore. Adding to the woes of the people, the sidewalls of the ghat road has been broken at many places so badly that vehicles express their reluctance to give side to the other vehicle for the fear of falling into the valley.
Members of Koraput Citizen Forum, who met in Koraput today urged the district administration to intervene and take steps to repair the damaged portions in the most important national highway of the region.
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Correspondent
KORAPUT: The national highway between Koraput district head quarter and Jeypore, the business centre of the district has been the nightmare for the commuters over the past few days.
While the road which was laid fresh barely a few months back has been uprooted at many places in the short spell of rains, the condition of the old ones was no better.
The number of potholes could be counted from the traffic junction at Koraput to the entry point of Jeypore, causing hardship for the vehicles.
The journey of 22 km which till recently took barely 30 minutes, now takes not less than an hour to cover. However the worst affected portion on the road was in between pine research plantation area to the beginning of the ghat section while going from Koraput to Jeypore. Adding to the woes of the people, the sidewalls of the ghat road has been broken at many places so badly that vehicles express their reluctance to give side to the other vehicle for the fear of falling into the valley.
Members of Koraput Citizen Forum, who met in Koraput today urged the district administration to intervene and take steps to repair the damaged portions in the most important national highway of the region.
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Media Today-13th August.
News-1:
A workshop on the rights of tribals in relation to the forest was organized in Odiapentha panchayat of Laxmipur block in Koraput district .The workshop which was jointly organized by Parivesh Surakhya Samiti of Laxmipur and Vasundhara of Bhubaneswar was attended by the office bearers of village forest protection samitis of various villages in the block and experts on the tribal issues from the district .
NEWS-2:Special provisions that were made available for the schedule districts like Koraput were not been able to GET transmitted to the grassroots even after so many year of national independence , Krushna Chandra Panigrahy ,Disrector , Tribal Museum said . A lot many provisions and space for restructuring the rules of the land were been granted for the region , paving the ways for making their implementation more suitable and effective for the region. But there were no serious efforts made in this regard ,he alleged .
While expressing his concern over the misuse of research work by some government officials and non government agencies in the region , he said that no specific value added points been thought of even while making development plans for the district . Highlighting the negligent attitude of the planners in misutilising the public money, he wondered over the reason of going for a district level micro plan for the period 2007-2012 when the micro plan for the period 2005-2010 under NFFWP was already been made in the district a year back .
He was also critical in his observation on the way the research work was going on in the district without considering the backdrop of similar experiences and experiments made earlier in the same district or elsewhere .This basic concern and process of referring could minimize the research expenses and saving the public money from getting wasted with repeated experimentation be achieved , he added.
Here it might also be noted that Koraput district has been the field of experimentation for different modes and methods of planning exercises being implemented by different agencies and organizations including the district administration itself for the last many years .
NEWS-3:Samruddha Odisha has demanded for quashing the lease of Maliparvat in Koraput district , that was offered for mining of bauxite . While addressing a rally today , Saroj Kumar Padhy , General Secretary of the party at Pottangi in Koraput district said that the entire Deomali region carried a lot of ecological significance for providing livelihood for thousands of tribals and should be spared from its destruction. Further accusing the block administration of working under the pressure of Jayaram Pangi , local MLA and Ashok Kumar Pangi , his son and the president of Koraput Zilla Parishad, he said that progress of work were at a snail’s pace in the block .
Highlighting the plight of people in the block with the Tahsildar’s office at Pottangi , he said that the tahsildar was not able to deliver his duties properly as he was engaged in multifarious responsibilities like holding the post of treasury officer and the sub-registrar in addition to his regular job in the block . Further alleging that the programmes like Rice at Rs.2/- , NREGA and PMGSY were not been implemented properly, the party , in a memorandum has asked the intervention of the Chief Minister. The copies of memorandum addressed to the chief minister was handed over to the BDO and Tahsildar separately .
A workshop on the rights of tribals in relation to the forest was organized in Odiapentha panchayat of Laxmipur block in Koraput district .The workshop which was jointly organized by Parivesh Surakhya Samiti of Laxmipur and Vasundhara of Bhubaneswar was attended by the office bearers of village forest protection samitis of various villages in the block and experts on the tribal issues from the district .
NEWS-2:Special provisions that were made available for the schedule districts like Koraput were not been able to GET transmitted to the grassroots even after so many year of national independence , Krushna Chandra Panigrahy ,Disrector , Tribal Museum said . A lot many provisions and space for restructuring the rules of the land were been granted for the region , paving the ways for making their implementation more suitable and effective for the region. But there were no serious efforts made in this regard ,he alleged .
While expressing his concern over the misuse of research work by some government officials and non government agencies in the region , he said that no specific value added points been thought of even while making development plans for the district . Highlighting the negligent attitude of the planners in misutilising the public money, he wondered over the reason of going for a district level micro plan for the period 2007-2012 when the micro plan for the period 2005-2010 under NFFWP was already been made in the district a year back .
He was also critical in his observation on the way the research work was going on in the district without considering the backdrop of similar experiences and experiments made earlier in the same district or elsewhere .This basic concern and process of referring could minimize the research expenses and saving the public money from getting wasted with repeated experimentation be achieved , he added.
Here it might also be noted that Koraput district has been the field of experimentation for different modes and methods of planning exercises being implemented by different agencies and organizations including the district administration itself for the last many years .
NEWS-3:Samruddha Odisha has demanded for quashing the lease of Maliparvat in Koraput district , that was offered for mining of bauxite . While addressing a rally today , Saroj Kumar Padhy , General Secretary of the party at Pottangi in Koraput district said that the entire Deomali region carried a lot of ecological significance for providing livelihood for thousands of tribals and should be spared from its destruction. Further accusing the block administration of working under the pressure of Jayaram Pangi , local MLA and Ashok Kumar Pangi , his son and the president of Koraput Zilla Parishad, he said that progress of work were at a snail’s pace in the block .
Highlighting the plight of people in the block with the Tahsildar’s office at Pottangi , he said that the tahsildar was not able to deliver his duties properly as he was engaged in multifarious responsibilities like holding the post of treasury officer and the sub-registrar in addition to his regular job in the block . Further alleging that the programmes like Rice at Rs.2/- , NREGA and PMGSY were not been implemented properly, the party , in a memorandum has asked the intervention of the Chief Minister. The copies of memorandum addressed to the chief minister was handed over to the BDO and Tahsildar separately .
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Doctors Meet Health Minister-Published in The Hindu-4th August
Doctors pour out their woes before the Minister
Correspondent
KORAPUT: Several drugs that are of no use have been piled up in the Primary Health Centres, while acquiring those required for treating the poor remains a distant dream. The doctors of Koraput district poured their woes before the Health Minister Sanatan Bishi during an interaction in the district headquarters hospital at Koraput on Saturday.
Further there was an acute shortage of doctors in the region, particularly in the rural areas.
The problem could however be resolved by changing the drug procurement policy with transferring the power of purchasing the required medicines to the districts rather than keeping all the power at the State headquarter, they added.
Discussing on the irrational transfer policy of the Health Ministry, Niranjan Mishra, a doctor in the district headquarter hospital said that many doctors were wiling to work in the rural areas provided there was any specific transfer policy to relieve them after a certain period of service.
No grievance cell
Moreover the Government had lacked a proper grievance redressal system to listen to the plight of doctors and other people working in the health sector, Santanu Kumar Das, another doctor who had to struggle for 14 years to get the sanction for the 30 days’ leave that was granted to him by the State Government to attend a workshop in Japan in 1993.
“I am prepared to handover the Gandhi award and merit certificate given in Japan if they can grant the required sanction of leave from the government”, Dr. Das pleaded before the Minister.
While the Minister supported the doctors while assuring to hold discussion at higher level for the executive accountability to minimise the sufferings of the medicos working in the government hospitals, he was informed by the doctors that the promises that were made by the State Government in the last year during the epidemic diarrheoa at Dasamantpur block of Koraput district to fill up the vacancies and building of better infrastructure in the health centres was yet to be fulfilled .
The Minister was shocked to listen that the line department in the district administration had come up only with a single project after 3 years of placing the funds from NRHM.
The line departments who had been assigned to complete the work in the PHCs were not even consulting the concerned health officials in the district before planning for the construction and carrying out other developmental works, Sasmita Samantray, DPM, NRHM added.
While the Minister, putting all the blame on the degraded operating system in the State, urged the doctors not to go with their mass resignation from 21st August, members of the pharmacists’ association warned to go on mass leave from August 9 if their demands including a hike in their pay scale was not considered
Correspondent
KORAPUT: Several drugs that are of no use have been piled up in the Primary Health Centres, while acquiring those required for treating the poor remains a distant dream. The doctors of Koraput district poured their woes before the Health Minister Sanatan Bishi during an interaction in the district headquarters hospital at Koraput on Saturday.
Further there was an acute shortage of doctors in the region, particularly in the rural areas.
The problem could however be resolved by changing the drug procurement policy with transferring the power of purchasing the required medicines to the districts rather than keeping all the power at the State headquarter, they added.
Discussing on the irrational transfer policy of the Health Ministry, Niranjan Mishra, a doctor in the district headquarter hospital said that many doctors were wiling to work in the rural areas provided there was any specific transfer policy to relieve them after a certain period of service.
No grievance cell
Moreover the Government had lacked a proper grievance redressal system to listen to the plight of doctors and other people working in the health sector, Santanu Kumar Das, another doctor who had to struggle for 14 years to get the sanction for the 30 days’ leave that was granted to him by the State Government to attend a workshop in Japan in 1993.
“I am prepared to handover the Gandhi award and merit certificate given in Japan if they can grant the required sanction of leave from the government”, Dr. Das pleaded before the Minister.
While the Minister supported the doctors while assuring to hold discussion at higher level for the executive accountability to minimise the sufferings of the medicos working in the government hospitals, he was informed by the doctors that the promises that were made by the State Government in the last year during the epidemic diarrheoa at Dasamantpur block of Koraput district to fill up the vacancies and building of better infrastructure in the health centres was yet to be fulfilled .
The Minister was shocked to listen that the line department in the district administration had come up only with a single project after 3 years of placing the funds from NRHM.
The line departments who had been assigned to complete the work in the PHCs were not even consulting the concerned health officials in the district before planning for the construction and carrying out other developmental works, Sasmita Samantray, DPM, NRHM added.
While the Minister, putting all the blame on the degraded operating system in the State, urged the doctors not to go with their mass resignation from 21st August, members of the pharmacists’ association warned to go on mass leave from August 9 if their demands including a hike in their pay scale was not considered
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