30 July 2011

Three mobile animal health units opened in N'rangpur

July 28, 2011 The Pioneer, Bhubaneswar.
Three mobile animal health units were inaugurated in Jharigam, Umerkote and Righar blocks of Nabarangpur district by Agriculture Minister, Pradeep Maharathy, Science and Technology Minister Ramesh Chandra Majhi, and MP Pradeep Majhi.

Inaugurating the mobile animal health units, Minister Majhi said that the mobile health units would cover about three blocks in Nabarangpur districts, while other seven blocks will be covered soon by such units.

The State Government is firm on implementation of Vision 2020 for development of animal husbandry sector in the State. It aims at generating about five lakh manpower every year to ensure better socio-economic conditions of the farmers. From now, health camps for cattle will be conducted at every gram panchayat(GP) of the State, he added.

Hoping for self-sufficiency in cattle feed and dairy production, Majhi said the farmers would be able to reach the target of 10 lakh tonne milk production per annum and one lakh hectares of grassland for cattle feed in the next few years. Later the Ministers and MP inaugurated a chilling plant at Jhgarigam.

Soil test lab, seed processing unit to be set up at Umerkote

July 28, 2011 The Pioneer, Bhubaneswar

State Agriculture Minister Pradeep Maharathy on Wednesday visited Umerkote to attend an interaction programme with farmers.

It was his first visit after taking the charge of Agricultural Ministry. Speaking on this occasion, Maharathy said he is moving each and every district to study and ascertain the natural problems of the farmers and also to know what farm should be set up in which district.

The Minister further expressed that he is going to the field with the departmental officials to review the reasons of the farmers' suicide. "After listening to several problems of the farmers, I came to know that mainly a farmer requires four things such as water, fertiliser, seeds and market. In order to meet these requirements, I am committed to take several initiatives," Maharathy said. For the better future of the farmers, there would be a soil testing laboratory and seed processing unit here soon, he added.

Confessing failure to check the black marketing of fertiliser, the Minister strictly instructed the District Collector to take stiff action in this regard. He further said the distribution of cheques to the beneficiary farmers who lost crop last year due to unseasonal rain would be concluded before the August 15.

Agriculture Director RS Gopalan said there is no scarcity of fertiliser in the State except Potash which is now scarce almost in every State. The Central Government is procuring Potash from other countries. Firm action would be taken against the banks which deny agricultural loans to the farmers, he assured.

Joint verification by the District Collector and Agriculture Department will be made to verify the supply of water from Bhaskal Irrigation Projects. Considering the necessity of cold storage unit, Gopalan said 40 per cent subsidy would be given to the farmers for construction of cold storage unit. Timely supply of insurance amount to the farmers would be made through Samabaya Samiti, he added.

Principal Secretary Rangalal Tamunda said fertiliser inspectors would be posted soon in each gram panchayat (GP) to prevent the black marketing of fertiliser. More lift irrigation and waterside projects would be made to meet the scarcity of water, he added.

Among others, IT& Fishery Minister Ramesh Majhi, APICOL Director Balakrishna Rath, Nabarangpur district Collector Sibabrata Dash, Nabarangpur district BJD president Jaydeb Parida, Nabarangpur MP Pradeep Majhi, Nabarangpur MLA Monahar Randhari, Umerkote NAC Chairman Jhadeswar Mohanty, NAC EO Manoranjan Panda and Tehsildar Niranjan Behera were present. According to sources, due to poor health, Umerkote MLA Jagabandhu Majhi failed to attend the meeting.

Maize, sugarcane processing units promised for N'rangpur

July 28, 2011 The Pioneer Bhubaneswar
State Agriculture Minister Pradeep Maharathy, along with Director of Agriculture RS Gopalan and Principal Secretary to Government, Agriculture Department, Rangalal Jamuda, visited Nabarangpur district on Tuesday and inaugurated the district development photo exhibition at Shastri Bhawan and the newly constructed Deputy Director Office building.

He also interacted with farmers and input dealers of the district. IT Minister Ramesh Chandra Majhi told Maharathy that in Nabarangpur the prime occupation of people is agriculture as more than 80 per cent of people depend on it.

The Agriculture Minister was told that due to weak monsoon, drought like situation has prevailed in the district as the district has received even less than 50 per cent of the average rainfall in the last two months. Minister Majhi demanded that Nabarangpur should be declared a drought-affected district.

MP, Pradeep Majhi, demanded irrigation facility in the district and immediate steps for irrigation of down stream of the Indravati project, and construction of tail dam at Chandahandi Sati Jhar Dam at Jharigam.

The local rural farmers conveyed their grievance to the Minister that there has been an artificial scarcity of DAP and potash in the district and requested him to look into the matter. The farmers also demanded supply of modern agriculture equipment with financial support, establishment of soil testing laboratory, seed processing unit, maize and sugarcane processing unit in the district.

Maharathi assured to look into the problems and announced that a soil testing laboratory and a seed processing unit will be established at Umerkote. He said that the Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and MP Pyari Mohapatra will visit the district for the laying foundation stone of the maize processing unit at Semala under Papadahandi block, and sugarcane processing unit at Churchanda. Among others, District Collector, Sibabrata Dash, Dabugam MLA, Bhujabala Majhi, Nabarangpur MLA, Mahohar Randhari, Zilla Parisad Chairman, Bhagirathi Nayak, were present.

20 July 2011

100 bedded Tribal girls' hostel inaugurated at Dabugam.

Nabarangpur:

Hundred bedded girls’ hostel was inaugurated at Kanyashram, under Dabungam block on Sunday, Ramesh Chandra Majhi, Minister, IT, Fishery, ARD &ST Dev inaugurated and interacted with the students, and teachers. A meeting was organized at the Kanyashram, speaking to the occasion Mr..Majhi informed that the government has decided to open a +2 science and Commerce college in the district, and also a government degree collage at Dhadra, under Umerkote block soon. MLA, Bhujabala Majhi, Zilaparisad President, Bhagarathi Nayak, DWO, Mukund Nial, Block Chairman,Dabugam Banshidhar Majhi, AE,ITDA, Bibhuti Bhusana Dash, Headmaster, Leema Gouda, were addressed in the meeting.

All Odisha Chess Championship-2011 concluded.

Nabarangpur:
The three days all Odisha open chess championship-2011 concluded with an award ceremony and celebration at Mission shakti hall here on Sunday.
In the prize ceremony Chief guest, Ramesh Chandra Majhi, Minister, IT, Fishery, ARD &ST Dev, said that for the first time the open chess tournament was organized in the tribal district, he thanked to the organizer the district athletic association and collector for organizing such a event.
Sudhir Kumar Behera, of Kalahandi, emerged champion, while Dasharathi Sahoo, of Nayagarh, and Rabindra Kumar Ojha, of Cuttack ranked as second and third. Total 16 prizes and five category prizes with total Rs.25,000 Cash distributed to the winners.
In the closing ceremony Collector,Sibabrata Dash, MLA, Monahar Randhari, DAA, Secretary, Prahalad Tripathy, chief arbiter, Suresh Chandra Sahoo,arbiter, Durga Prasad Mohapatra, spoke on the occasion.
The tournament was organized by district athletic association, in collaboration with district administration, under the aegis of all Odisha chess association. Altogether 34 participants including rated, from 12 districts participated in the tournament.

17 July 2011

Man deadly attacked on relatives 3died,3 injured.

Nabarangpur:
A mantel retarded person Suku Majhi, of Bhakatguda under Papadahandi PS, allegedly deadly attacked on relatives in which four injured and two died at the spot surrendered to the police on Saturday.
According to investigating police officials of Papadahandi, PS family dispute was suspected to be the reason for the gruesome incident On Saturday at about 2PM, Suku Majhi, with intoxicated condition deadly attacked with an sharp weapon to the relatives at his village Bhakatguda, In which Sister-in-law Dosai Majhi, (65) and uncle, Kuma Majhi,(60) died at spot, while four injured in the attack admitted at the hospital. Later on Sunday morning, Pitambar Majhi, (45) died at district headquarters hospital, while Dalimba Bhatra, Dinamani Bhatra, and Doli Majhi, admitted at DHH. Police registered a case and arrested the accused.

Dist Consumers Forum Imposes Penalty on Tehsildar,Nabarangpur

Nabarangpur:
The district consumer disputes redressal forum has imposed a penalty of Rs 5,000 on tehsildar, Nabarangpur after he was found guilty of unnecessarily delaying and non supply of the certified copies of the order sheet.
The complainant N Parameswaran, applied a certified copy of the entire order sheet in lease case no 115/83 on 15.3.11 in which his father granted lease of house site to an extent of 0.04 cents of plot no 142 vide khata No. 109/2 by the tehsildar which could not be recorded in the name of his father during settlement and the said papers are required in revision case. But after eleven days tehsildar has not supplied the copies on ground that the case record has not found at record room.
The complainant demanded compensation on account of loss for refusal on the ground that LC No 115/83 has not found at record room, in view of the deficienty in service by the Tehsildar, the DCDRF, President and Mrs.Pravati Mishara, and Aswani Kumar Mohapatro, members of the consumers forum directed the tehsildar, Nabarangpur to supply of copy of the lease case to the complainant immediately. Besides he is directed to pay a compensation of Rs.5,000/ including cost to the complainant. The forum further directed all the orders should be complied with in 30 days of dispatch of the order, failing which the amounts will carry 10 percent intrest p.a after lapse of the said period.

All Odisha Open Chess Championship kicks off at Nabarangpur.

Nabarangpur:
For the first time an state level open Chess championship tournament inaugurated at the Mission shakti hall here on Friday. Speaking to the occasion Collector,Sibabrata Dash said that the main objective of the tournament is to give a platform to the district chess players to play with the grand masters to help them raise their ratings and bring them to limelight.
DAA,Secretary, Prahalad Tripathy, said that around 40 players including grand masters and international masters from 12 districts are expected to participate in the tournament.
at the inaugural meeting SP,Niti Sekhar, District Sports Officer, Rajkishor Jena, ADM,Narendra Pradhan, Nabarangpur MLA,Manohar Randhari, District Athletic association secretary, Prahalad Tripathy, were spoke.
The tournament is organized by the district athelatic association, in collaboration with district administration under the aegis of all Odisha chess association.
State arbiter will conduct the event alongwith professional team, the tournament would be held here from 15th to 17th July.

11 July 2011

Officers’ posts lying vacant, development hit

The Pioneer, Bhubaneswar. Date:11.07.2011.
The tribal dominated Nabarangpur district is just limping and not operating at a normal pace due to a large number of vacancies at the officers level are dogging the vital organs of the administration. Nabarangpur was formed into a district in 2nd October 1992 being bifurcated from erstwhile Koraput district, since than the journey has been a bumpy ride for the people of Nabarangpur. Initially the district did not have the required infrastructure and now when infrastructure is being made available there is dearth of officials to man the office.

Earlier the collectorate had to operate from the RMC complex, over the years funds flowed in and today a new collectorate is constructed, besides District Rural Development Agency (DRDA), District Headquarters Hospital (DDH) got its new building, so did the district Treasury Office, Office of superintendent of police.

However despite the entire infrastructure the situation is not better with several important posts lying vacant. Nabarangpur district does not have a Project Director, DRDA, RTO, District Horticulturist, Sub-Collector, Revenue Officer, APD DRDA,(Administration) Chief District Veterinary Officer (CDVO), and District Sub-Registrar, Three BDOs, Jharigam, Kosagumuda, Dabugam, and Three Tahasildar also.

Apart from the posts Kosagumuda, Dabugam, Jharigam, BDO, Nandahandi, Jharigam, Raighar, Tahasildar, two posts of Assistant engineer, and three posts of Junior engineer are vacant in RW and D, Umerkote.

On the other hand ADM, Narendra Pradhan, is promoted and transferred while Umerkote BDO, Banshidhar Mallik, promoted and posted as ADM, Nabarangpur, there will be another vacancy of Umerkote Block

There is a dearth of specialists at the community health centres; the District headquarters hospital has ten vacancies, including that of seven specialist doctors. Key posts in the departments such as medicine, orthopedics, skin, anesthesia, pathology and surgery are yet to be filled at the DHH. At primary health centers, while thirty posts of surgeons are vacant, no doctors were posted in the past ten years for eleven specialist departments. Surprisingly, at least twenty hospitals in the district are being run by only health workers and nurses while some hospitals are managed by fourth class employees.

While implementation of development programmes is bearing the brunt of these vacancies, fifty vacant doctors posts in district have thrown health services into disarray.
This News is also available In Orissadiary,public trust of India,Odisha news today, Orissa Eye, newsweb.co.in.

10 July 2011

One MP from Odisha may get a Ministerial Berth

Bhubaneswar: According to the speculations in the media, the much-awaited Cabinet reshuffle may occur on Monday. At least one MP from Odisha is all set to get the final nod.

The names of Bhakta Charan Das, Hemanand Biswal and Pradeep Kumar Majhi are doing the rounds. Any of them could be inducted into the Union Cabinet.

Both Biswal and Majhi represent the tribal-dominated districts in Odisha. Majhi holds an edge over Biswal because of his youth charisma and close proximity to Rahul Gandhi. Bhakta Charan Das is also a strong contender to get a Ministerial berth.

In addition, Srikant Jena may be elevated to Cabinet rank, as his "senior" MK Alagiri completely failed to do justice to his post Cabinet Minister for Chemical and Fertlisers.

Srikant's elevation is long due, as he had served as the Cabinet Minister under HD Deve Gowds and IK Gujral in the past, but was given the MoS rank in Manmohan's Cabinet.

Since Rahul Gandhi will visit Odisha on July 13 and 14, it would be interesting to see whether he comes up with some good news for the state.