Kid branded in Nabarangpur village after Jyoti Campaign.

Nabarangpur: Yet another newborn was injured by branding of  his abdomen in Tentulikhunti block of Nabarangpur district  on Friday. The 45-day-old boy has been admitted in Nabarangpur district hospital. 

According to sources, Gitanjali Harijan and Junesh Harijan, from Khuntiaguda village of Tentulikhunti block, branded their child when the child developed some stomach and breathing problems, the parents approached a tribal traditional healer or ‘desari’, who branded his abdomen. When his condition deteriorated, he was brought to hospital.

This incident has come after the Jyoti campaign initiated by the district administration  where a village level awareness drive in all its 169 grampanchayats with 4,400 traditional healers, anganwadi workers, ASHA workers, Panchayatiraj functionaries and local youths were part of the awareness drive. Recently Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik awarded a cash prize of Rs. 15 Lakh to Nabarangpur Collector Rashmita Panda for district’s performance in fighting superstition.

District Journalist’s meets New SP of Nabarangpur.

Nabarangpur: 

The District body of the Odisha Union of Journalist’s meets new superintendent of police Sudhansu Sekhar Mishra, here on Thursday.  OUJ District President Susant Behera, along with the delegates discussed the various problems, including traffic mess of town. Senior Reporter Basant Rath, concerned over the various issues of the district. SP  Mr. Mishra,  assured to have friendly relation with the reporters and asked the reporters talk directly with every  issue. Among others Kishor Patnaik,  Saroj Patnaik, Phalguni Patra, Ajit Nayak, Jagannath Sahu, Siba Sankara Padhy, present at the meeting.

Nabarangpur OUJ District body Elected

Nabarangpur.

The Nabarangpur district unit of Odisha Union of Journalists (OUJ) new body declared today here at Ashribad Kalyana Mandap of town in which Senior Journalist Susant Behera, elected as President while Prasant Sahu, elected as  working president, general secretary Chitananda Sahu, working general vice president’s Saroj Patnaik, Barij Patnaik, Md. Hussan, Joint secretary, Ashwarya Takri, Ram Kiran Patnaik, Pramod Sahu, Treasure Kishor Patnaik, Legal Advisor Manohar Mohanty, elected for the new body. The earlier body was working for last six years inactive in this district. The state executive body took step to activate the new body and members drive. In the process Sashadhar Rout, was the state observer conducted the meeting and election.

India’s Zero District's Planning Meeting held in Close door.

Nabarangpur: With disgrace to the media persons of Nabarangpur district headquarter, the district planning meeting was held at Mission Shakti Conference Hall here on Thursday. During the meeting Collector Rashmita Panda, refused the media persons to sit at the meeting, despite the district Information and public relation officer invited to the meeting. Notwithstanding  under the chairmanship of Manohar Randhari, the DPC meeting was held in which Minister Ramesh Chandra Majhi, MP Balabhadra Majhi, Dabugam MLA Bhujabala Majhi, Umerkote MLA Subash Gond, Zilla Parisad President, Motiram Nayak, with zilla parisad members and district level official’s present everyone surprised with the behaviour of Collector to the Reporter’s. 

 

Four Leopard skin, One live Pangolin seized six held at Nabarangpur.

Nabarangpur: Basant Rath, Reporter.

The officials of the Nabarangpur forest division seized four leopard skins, one live Pangolin and arrested six persons from Kosagumuda border to Chhattisgarh.The District Forest Officer Swayam Mallik,  said that the officials were acting on a tipoff that some  men from Chattisghar and Nabarangpur were trying to sell leopard skin. “We formed a special team led by range officer Dhanurjaya Mahapatra, with forester Jagannath Prasad Bissoiy, arrested  four poachers of Chattisghar, and two from Nabarangpur district, with the leopard skins and live Pagolin, from their possession. The forest officials also   seized four motorcycles, four mobile phones from the accused persons.  The leopard and pangolin are schedule-I animals as per wild protection Act, 1972, Mallick said four cases have been registered and six accused have already been forwarded to the court of Sub-divisional judicial magistrate, Nabarangpur,  Mallick added.

 It is pertinent to mention here that during in the month of February six leopard skins, tiger and bear teeth as well as a bear paw had been seized by forest official and arrested five persons from Indravati hydro project area at Nabarangpur-Kalhandi border. Similarly during May 192 live Indian Soft Shelled Turtles had been seized at Chandahandi by the forest division officials of Nabarangpur one accused had been forwarded to the court. The work of Nabarangpur forest division is in consonance with this year’s theme of world environment day celebration, i.e. “fight against the illegal trade in wildlife for live” Zero tolerance for the illegal trade in wildlife.