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 .