Landmine blasted by Police at Jodinga-Nabarangpur.

Nabarangpur. By: Basant Rath, Sr.Correspondent.

SP. Niti Sekhar, detecing Landmine.

A landmine planted by Maoists was blasted by security personnel near Shanti Nagar, 4km away from Raighar  naxal-hit-Nabarangpur district today.
At the Jodinga-Raighar jungle two boys found the wires and try to tug the wires in the meanwhile they found some villagers ran away. Villagers came to the spot saw the huge wires and intimated Righar police.

Following the information, Superintendent of Police Niti Sekhar SDPO, Umerkote Ashok Kumar Patnaik along with other police officials rushed to the spot near Jodenga, located the landmine which was more than 15 feet under the ground.

Police suspect landmines might be planted at the time of construction of the road without taking any risk of defuse Supt. of Police Mr. Sekhar directed the police personnel’s to blast the landmine. We suspect planting of more such landmines. Although search operation has been launched along the road from Raighar to district bordering, Said Sp. Mr.Sekhar

Women pull chariot at Nabarangpur.

THE PIONEER  BHUBANESWAR  THURSDAY,  21 JUNE 2012  BASANT RATH
The Rath Yatra here concluded peacefully on Thursday with a ban on obscene utterances during the festival and for the first time women pulling Lord Jagannath’s chariot.

Women devotees with Collector. Sibabrata Dash,MLA Manohar Randhari  Pulling Chariot.

Hundreds of women devotees along with their male counterparts pulled the chariot creating history in the district. Expressing pleasure over the event, District Collector Sibabrata Dash said that prior to this year women had found it difficult to even come near the ropes of the chariot, but after the ban on hurling of obscenities women could pull the chariot. This reflects the rich and distinct cultural heritage of Nabarangpur, he observed.

President of Durgabhaini Sussma Jain, along with the Rising Star Rotarians participated in chariot-pulling and cheered women devotees. They said they were thankful to the district administration for the new trend, which, they hoped, would be continued in future.

In particular, tribal women were thrilled to participate in the pulling of the chariot.The district administration deployed huge number police personnel of both genders for smooth and peaceful conduct of the festival.

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NREGA Job card cover scam Vigilance raid on DRDA & RCMS

Nabarangpur:

The vigilance team on Thursday raided the houses and offices of Badri Bhagban Tripathy, RCMS Secretary Nabarangpur and Jugal Kishor Nayak, APD DRDA, also raided the residences of  Dhruba Charan Panchbhaya, CEO of Western Odisha Development Council.

Acting on the large-scale corruption and irregularities  of NREGA job card cover purchase scam for the year 2009-10 the vigilance sleuths raided the houses and offices said B K Nayak, Kalahandi DSP vigilance. Malkangiri DSP Vigilance Hanari Kulu, Inspector Harekrishna Majhi along with staff conducted raids.

Maa Ghara with CRPF provides Free Computer Education.

Nabarangpur: By: Basant Rath,Bureau Chief.

In an effort to prevent trafficking of woman and girls from the district, believed to be especially rampant in tribal-dominated  Nabarangpur.  The CRPF with the help of Maa Ghara, Nabrangpur branch has started a new initiative to improve skills of the vulnerable section and find employment for them in the locality.

A meeting was held at the town hall here on Monday, inaugurated by Rutupurna Mohanty, Managing trustee Maa Ghara, among others freedom fighter Md.Bazi, Niranjan Sahu, Asst. Commandant CRPF, Mrs.Sunita Gupta, Dandapani Mohapatro, Southern Odisha Sahyitya General Secretary.

Local MLA, Monahar Randhari, who was the guest of honour said that we are thankful to CRPF and Maa Ghara for giving this opportunity and helping women’s and girls to stand in their feet.

"The idea of organizing this training is not only to address the crisis of women trafficking, which has been acute in various tribal areas, but also to prevent these vulnerable sections from becoming a target of Naxal forces," said D.S.Negi, Commandant CRPF Koraput.

As many as 30 women and girls of the district, were joined in the free computer education with free boarding facilities. Maa Ghara Nabarangpur branch President Kadambini Tripathy, Presided over the meeting. 

World environment day observed at Nabarangpur.

Nabarangpur:

World environment day is being celebrated at Central Nursery of Patramunda Nabarangpur.

Guests with the Prakruti Bandhu Award winners at the Meeting

Chief Guest Collector Sibabrata Dash  called for a concerted and collective effort for environment conservation. Every individual should make a significant contribution in safeguarding the environment," he said.

DFO, Solaram Marandi stressed on maintaining balance between development and conservation of the environment. Due to progressive climate change and other environmental concerns, there is continuous deterioration in the environment across the globe and is one of the primary concern of present world he added.

10 Prakruti Mitra awards  and 10 prakruti Bandhu awards with 5000 cheques were distributed at the meeting. Among others PDDRDA,James Eakka, ACF,Biswaraj Panda, Dr.Bijaya Mishra, were DIPRO, Bhujang Bhusan Rao, were spoke on the occasion.