By- Mayank Aggarwal
Severe protests from the villagers had led to the South Korean steel major POSCO abandoning its project in Odisha involving Rs 500 billion (Rs 50,000 crore) worth of investment. The forest clearance to the project was transferred last year to JSW Utkal Steel Limited.
However, the people...
By-Sonali Singh
Bhubaneswar, Mar 4: When the ambitious Swachh Bharat Mission was launched by the Union government way back on October 2, 2014 to target the practice of open defecation in the country Odisha had a bad track record and one among the few states in the country with the...
By-Sandeep Praharsha
Kalahandi: At a volunteering opportunity during my stay in the United Kingdom, I began to understand people’s problems and to believe that people are devoid of opportunities and denied their rights. I thought, with a little push, they would eventually develop the confidence to progress. It was one...
By-Atulya Bora, Balakrishna Himirika, Bhimsen Kulisika, Jyoti Tuika and Johnny Oommen
Raygada: It has been said that life is a terminal disease. All who are born, will die. The time between the two defining events varies and is often not in our control. But one value we hope to hold on to through childhood, adult...
BY-BASUDEV MAHAPATRA
In villages in Odisha, tribal communities have returned to indigenous varieties of seeds which yield crops that are better suited to the impacts of the changing climate.
In order to ensure more yield, the government provides high yielding variety seeds to the farmers. But, after a short...
By-MK Singh
Ganjam (Odisha): The coastal district of Ganjam in Odisha is considered as a hub for outward migration where lakhs of unskilled Odia labourers migrate often to Gujarat, Maharashtra and others in search of jobs. Marred by the lack of high-paying jobs and industries in the state, many from...
By-Sonali Singh
Bhubaneswar, Jan 30: With glaring neglect of the Odisha Health Department and several senior bureaucrats, leprosy health care in the state is passing through tough times. At a time when the deformity rates and rate of new leprosy infections are rising, massive vacancy of specialized health workers and...
By-BASUDEV MAHAPATRA
Since the first teak plantation by the British in Kerala in 1842, almost all states of India have carried out teak plantation in the forests under different schemes to create or convert the existing forests into high-value timber-based forests.
The teak forests are threatening the survival and...
By-MK Singh
Bargarh: A survey by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) last year and another one by a private Rural Output Index recently hinted at an increase of income of rural India including farming and non-farming households from Odisha.
The Odisha Agriculture Department also told us that...
By-MK Singh
Malkangiri/Sukma: The recent killing of a Maoist by civilians in a remote village of Malkangiri district of Odisha speaks largely about the loosing grip of the Reds and their domination in the jungles of Odisha.
Once known as the hotbeds of the Red Corridor of India, Naxals are Malkangiri as...