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Gambling fever grips towns, villages

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KORAPUT: People are seen more indoors than outdoors for the last few days in the towns and villages of Koraput district. It’s not out of any terror or the result of any conflict that has been in the news for the last many days. It is the immense attraction of gambling during the festive season that has forced people from rich to poor to get confined into the doors that many of them had ventured for the first time.
In most homes, people invite their friends and relatives over to play cards. Friends get together to indulge in games of cards. The ‘addicts’ seek legitimacy for their unusual pastime by recalling the golden moments of the past when the royal kings had played cards for their entertainment or also by referring to the celestial game of dice having been played by the lord Shiva with his companion Parvati. Others rationalise that this was just to remind oneself of the fickleness of lady luck and to inculcate a sense of balance in the pursuit of material success.
While the practice of playing cards had generated a sense of collective living during the festive seasons by inviting people from the families of one’s near and dear ones, the greatest concern has been the continuous growth of temporary gambling dens in many undisclosed destinations, be it some houses or secluded groves in the villages and towns, even not known to the family members. Invent of the mobile phones has helped the players to decide the spot at the last minute. While some players keep on changing their venues for maintaining their security from the police, most of them do not prefer to change their partners.
The stakes range from as small as a rupee to lakhs of rupees. Sometimes valuables like jewellery and vehicles are also put on stake.
While some expert gamblers make fortune from the game of cards during the season some earn their livelihood for the whole year. But a greater number of people return home losing their lifetime savings.

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Narayanpatna turning red with each passing day?

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Posters put by naxals continue to be intact as police are not removing them immediately
KORAPUT: Narayanpatna in the district is a different place now for alleged inaction by both revenue and police officials. Each place in the block appears to be in the process of turning red with each passing day. Till recently occurrence of a red banner anywhere in the block created sensation among people and was removed by the police at the shortest available time, but now things have changed. The red-coloured banners that were placed last Saturday in different parts of the block urging people to join the naxal movement were seen even after a week. Handwritten posters were put up by naxalites on roadside trees with similar messages. A vehicle carrying special police force was blasted by naxals near Paluru between Laxmipur and Narayanpatna a few months ago. The severely burnt vehicle has been lying on the roadside at the same spot all these months. Hundreds of trees were cut by the naxals to block roads in Narayanpatna and Bandhugaon blocks. While the roads were cleared from!
time to time, the logs are still lying on either side of the roads.
The number of people approaching the local police station has come down, attendance of teachers and students in schools is at its minimum and work for the officials in these blocks has got minimised over the last many months.
Further, the movement for land rights by Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangh (CMAS), Narayanpatna, has created fresh impetus to the red movement. Members of the sangh who are called ‘Ghenua Vahini’ could be seen even on the roads, more so in groups dressed in red with pieces of red cloth tied on their forehead and carrying bow and arrow while checking the vehicles that were approaching the block every now and then . While the sangh had no links or any form of connection with the naxals, the red colour was chosen and the members were holding bow and arrow as a mark of their tribal identity, Nachika Linga, president, CMAS, Narayanpatna, said. Deep inside the block, which was guarded heavily by the members creating protection for their leaders, the sewing machines are seen working day and night in the little huts to stitch dresses for their members from the bundles of red cloth.

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CMAS factions at 'daggers drawn'

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BHUBANESWAR, 18 SEPT: Bitter factionalism in the Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangh (CMAS) which has been running riot in Narayanpatna and Bandhugaon blocks of Koraput district, has come to the fore with the Badhugaon CMAS faction alleging here today that its Narayanpatna counterpart was playing into the hands of vested interests who want to sabotage the land and forest rights struggle.
Addressing a Press conference here, leaders of the All India Khet Majdoor Kisan Sabha (AI KMKS) including its convenor, Mr Subodh Mitra, co-convenor Ms S Jhansi and the CMAS leader of Bandhugaon Ms K Paidamma alleged that the state government is creating fissures in the peoples movement and admiring the violent clash between factions of the CMAS.
A peace committee has been created to voice demand for ban of the CMAS which is completely unacceptable, they charged.
The CMAS Narayanpatna faction led by Mr Nachika Linga and directed by Mr Gananath Patra is behind the violence, they alleged, citing instances of gangrape, abduction and arson that was committed two weeks back.
"It is shocking that the entire administration is not taking any action after such heinous crimes committed at regular intervals," said Mr Mitra.
The CMAS has organised the downtrodden in these remote villages to fight for land and forest rights and to launch a movement against liquor trade, he explained. It was formed in 1998 as an extension of the work of Rythu-Cooli Sangham of Andhra Pradesh. The district administration is not only defunct but is also hobnobbing with Linga-group alleged Ms Padiamma, president of CMAS, Bandhugaon. Recently, the Linga group kidnapped 11 of our people including girls and held them as hostages for almost 12 days. They have released only seven till date, she decried.
She alleged that the government convened meetings and promised land settlement, forest rights, homestead plots etc to the tribal and the poor. But it has not fulfilled the promise, instead local officers tell us that Mr Linga has to come on board for acceptance or implementation of any thing. "The Naryanpatna faction is turning the movement into a violent one and is targeting non-tribals including the poor and we protest this," said Ms Jhansi. A fact finding team of the AIKMKS alleged that a girl of Jadaba village in Bandhugaon block was gangraped and tortured.
The police and district administration is taking the plea of Maoists every time such incidents take place and their inaction is exposed, charged the AIKMKS leaders. They demanded immediate implementation of forest and land rights in the area, resettlement of land to landless people, fully equipped health care centers in each panchayat, schools, safe drinking water and purchase centers for forest produce collected by tribals.

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State accused of siding with breakaway group of CMAS

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BHUBANESWAR: All India Khet Mazdoor Kisan Sabha (AIKMKS) here on Friday alleged that administration was siding with a breakaway group of Chasi Mulia Advasi Sangh (CMAS) to dilute the land struggle in Koraput district.
Addressing a press conference here, AIKMKS convenor Subodh Mitra said according to law, tribal land could not be transferred to non-tribals, but the entire fertile valley lands of Narayanpatna and Bandhugaon block were under occupation and enjoyment of non-tribal moneylenders.
He alleged that the breakaway group led by Lachika Linga and Gananath Patro had resorted to violent means with active support of government at Narayanpatna block.
“Patro took to narrow national chauvinism. He has succeeded to divert a few hundred advasis into his paranoid programme and is resorting to violent attach on the CMAS and the poor non-adivasis and adivasi people in the movement,” Mr. Mitra said
AIKMKS leaders alleged that administration instead of trying to resolve the issue through war-footing land reforms was indulged in dividing policies.
“A real peace can be restored only when the entire agriculture land in the area – valley land and pody land is legally allotted to adivasis and eligible non-adivasi poor,” CMAS leader Pydamma said.
The AIKMKS, which claimed that CMAS was affiliated to it, demanded that measures should be initiated to resettle the landless non-adivasis who had been living there for decades by providing a maximum of one hectare of cultivable land to each family.
It further demanded all welfare schemes should immediately be implemented in tribal areas.

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Security tightened in Malkangiri

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Sequel to fierce encounter in Chhattisgarh

BERHAMPUR: Security was tightened in naxal infested Malkangiri district of south Orissa following the fierce gun battle between the security forces and the naxals in adjoining Dantewada district of Chhatisgarh.
On Friday morning the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel involved in combing operation had an exchange of fire with Maoists inside jungles near MV90 village under Kalimela police station of Malkangiri district. The Malkangiri Superintendent of Police (SP), Satyabrata Bhoi said this exchange of fire occurred while the security forces were involved in combing operation in the area.
The security in Malkangiri district had to be intensified as this district is strategically placed between naxal infested areas of Chhatisgarh and Andhra Pradesh. Usually Maoists of these two states use remote areas Malkangiri as their buffer zone. The recent gun battle happened at a distance of 30 kilometres from Motu in Malkangiri district. It was a major onslaught on the Maoist vagrants by the personnel of Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA). It was an effort to bust an illegal arms manufacturing factory and a naxal camp in the forests of Singamadagu in Dantewada district. As per reports an assistant commandant of CoBRA and eight left-wing terrorists were killed in the fierce gunbattle. So, the police officials in Malkangiri district were cautious not to let any Maoists escape into this area.
Mr. Bhoi said the Maoists operating in Malkangiri district were also in a panicked state. The reason behind their panic is said to be possible deployment of extra central forces for anti-naxal operations. Added to it joint anti-naxal operations with the cooperation of security forces of Andhra Pradesh and Chhatisgarh were also on.
According to police officials of Malkangiri district the fright of Maoists and their supporters was evident from some recent events. The supporters and frontal organisations have increased their campaign for removal of CRPF from the area. They have allegedly even terrorised some elected panchayat body members to take part in this campaign. Even the teachers were threatened of dire consequences if their schools were used as camps for anti-naxal forces. It all hints at panic of Maoists for a major onslaught which the Union Home Minister has hinted, said the police officers.

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Rally against CMAS

KORAPUT: People in Koraput continue seeking a peaceful atmosphere by urging the district administration to bring the agitating factions in Narayanpatna and Bandhugaon blocks of Koraput district. While eminent citizens from different sections of the society sat together to form a peace committee to meet the agitators at their own place in Narayanpatna, thousands of people took out a rally at Dasmantpur on Friday, submitting a memorandum to the district administration with a demand to take action against Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangh (CMAS) for their alleged violent activities in the region.

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Interactive meet

KORAPUT: Prof. Surabhi Banerjee, Vice-Chancellor, Central University of Orissa attended the first interactive meeting with the students and the faculty of the university in its campus at Koraput on Friday. While giving the details of the future plans of the university, she had emphasised on the need to maintain a learning friendly atmosphere by both the teachers and students for the realisation of greater success in their life.

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Concern over poor utilisation of RTI Act

KORAPUT: Right To Information (RTI) forum of Koraput district organised a meeting of its members in the premises of tribal museum at Koraput on Friday. While expressing concern over the poor utilisation of the Act by people in the district for their lack of awareness, members of the forum had decided to urge the district administration to open a RTI desk near the district Collector’s chamber so as to facilitate the people to take the benefit of the Act while coming to place their grievance before the district Collector in the grievance cell every Saturday. - Correspondent

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Narayanpatna CMAS stoking violence

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BERHAMPUR: The pro-poor land reform movement for the landless in Koraput district has faced a major setback due to the violent activities of the Chasi Mulia Adivasi sangh of Narayanpatna, alleged the leaders of the Bandhugaon CMAS group.
Speaking to The Hindu over phone, convener of the Bandhugaon CMAS Srikant Mohanty said that due to the follies and ‘anarchist’ activities of the Naryanpatna CMAS, the exploitive forces have been able to brand the land movement in Koraput district to be a law and order issue. According to him the forces which were trying to obliterate the opposition breeding against the mining in Deomali hills in Koraput district have started taking advantage of the situation.
Mr Mohanty cited the speeches of leaders at the anti-CMAS rally organised at Semiliguda on Wednesday. Some of the speakers at the rally for some reason spat fire against the environmentalists and social activists who are opposed to the mining operation in the Deomali region. “Due to follies of Naryanpatna CMAS the exploitive forces now have a platform to strengthen their efforts to destroy the habit and habitat of Koraput in the name of mining,” he said.
When asked what the greatest mistake of the Narayanpatna CMAS was, Mr. Mohanty said the Narayanpatna group made a division among the exploited poor in the name of tribals and non-tribals. According to him, out of the 11 supporters of Bandhugaon group, who were kidnapped by the Narayanpatna group, seven have been released. But all those released are non-tribals. The four who are still in the custody of the Narayanpatna CMAS are tribals from Bankidi, Pedalara and Kabeti villages.

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Viswakarma puja performed

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KORAPUT: Worship of Viswakarma, son of Lord Brahma who is also recognised as the divine engineering architect of the whole universe, was performed in different puja pandals all across Koraput district on Thursday. Viswakarma was worshiped in the pandals of different engineering departments in the district, the pandals in the plant premises of HAL at Sunabeda and NALCO at Damanjodi were the greatest attractions. Devotees of Lord Jagannathbelieve that it was lord Biswakarma in disguise as an old carpenter and persuaded king Indradyumna to allow him to carve the idol of Lord Jagannath out of the “Daru”, the holy log.

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Government committed to the welfare of tribals, says MLA

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KORAPUT: Illegal transfer of tribal land into the hands of the non-tribals in Koraput district was at its maximum during the regime of the Congress party in the State, said Koraput MLA Raghuram Padal at Kendar near Koraput on Friday. He was attending the meeting being organised by the district administration to distribute 22 pattas of forest land to the landless forest dwellers of Balipeta, Kendar and Girliput villages. While highlighting the concern of the present government in the State towards the development of tribals, he said that problems in Narayanpatna and Bandhugaon in relation to the land disputes among the different communities could have been averted if the issue could have been addressed during the Congress regime itself.

Future plans

Listing out the future plans of the district administration in distributing pattas to the landless tribal families, Laxmikant Patra of ITDA, Koraput, said that 8,000 such pattas were already prepared in the district out of which more than 3,000 pattas would be distributed among the tribal families in Narayanapatna and Bandhugaon alone. While the beneficiaries were selected on a pilot basis for the first phase of distribution, more people will receive the benefit after the revenue department examines the validity of the fresh applications , he assured.

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Thursday, September 17, 2009

Peace panel seeks ban on CMAS

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Peace panel seeks ban on CMAS

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Sees need to restrain such outfits from taking out rallies with traditional arms

Role of external forces behind the unrest in Narayanpatna and Bandhugaon suspectedRationale behind administration’s urgency in implementing 3(B) Act questioned

KORAPUT: Members of the peace committee at a meeting held at Semiliguda on Wednesday urged the State government to ban organisations like the Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangh (CMAS) and restraint them from taking out rallies carrying their traditional arms in public.
In a memorandum despatched to the Governor, the members urged the State government to initiate stringent action against those who were behind the violent actions of the CMAS.

Rehabilitation

While apprehending the role of some external forces behind the unrest in Narayanpatna and Bandhugaon, president of Koraput Zilla Parishad Ashok Kumar Pangi said that people who were fomenting trouble would no longer be allowed to carryout their game plan of creating conflict among peace-loving people in the tribal community. As a step forward in bringing peace in the entire region and to check the movement of CMAS from spreading to other places of the district, the members of the peace committee urged the district administration to initiate steps to rehabilitate people who had lost their houses and land in the conflict at Narayanpatna and Bandhugaon blocks recently.
The committee further alleged that the situation turned worse because of lack of timely action by the administration in restraining the CMAS movement.
Instead of putting its foot down on the CMAS, the administration was showing unnecessary urgency in implementing the 3(B) Act for restoration of tribal land in the region, the members alleged. The committee urged the government to go slow on enforcing the Act as people were still unaware of the provisions of the Act in the absence of awareness measures by the administration.

In grip of fear

While thousands of people from the region attended the meeting along with leaders of the locality, people of Dudhari, Putsil, Kamalajhola and Sundhiput of Semiliguda block had to spend the night preceding the meeting in the grip fear. The police had to keep vigil in these villages for the entire night after the villagers reportedly received threat calls allegedly from the CMAS on Tuesday night asking people not to attend the meeting of the peace committee, said Sarat Kumar Sahu, IIC, Semiliguda police station. According to sources, while the meeting of the peace committee was on at Semiliguda, the CMAS-Narayanpatna also conducted a meeting at Kanti in the same block to chalk out its future plan of action.

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Prohibitory orders in Malkangiri

BERHAMPUR: The administration imposed prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the CrPC in Malkangiri town on Wednesday.
The administrative officials were compelled to impose these orders in this district headquarters town of naxal-hit Malkangiri to end a dharna by a group of elected members of panchayat bodies of the district. Some 80 elected local body members, including sarpanch, panchayat samity chairpersons and ZP members, had been on a dharna in front of the office of the Malkangiri Collector since Tuesday. The demonstrators demanded withdrawal of CRPF from Malkangiri district and humane measures to end naxal problem. It may be noted that Maoists were also demanding withdrawal of Central forces from naxal-hit areas.

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Peace committee wants ban on CMAS

KORAPUT, 16 SEPT: Members of the peace committee, which organised a meeting at Semiliguda today notwithstanding alleged threat calls, demanded that the state government should ban organisations like Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangh (CMAS) and restrict them from holding rallies, carrying traditional arms in public.
The committee, in a memorandum addressed to the Governor, also exhorted the government to take action against those who encourage the violent actions of CMAS.
Speaking at the meeting at Semiliguda, zilla parishad president Mr Ashok Kumar Pangi further alleged that some external elements from outside the state play a major role in creating unrest in Narayanpatna and Bandhugaon. "Stringent action should be initiated against all such elements," Mr Pangi demanded.
While suggesting few steps in a bid to bring peace to the entire region and to check the movement of CMAS from spreading its tentacles into other parts in the district, the members of the committee demanded that the district administration take steps to rehabilitate the people who had lost their houses and land due to the conflict in Narayanpatna and Bandhugaon blocks in the recent past.
The committee has further alleged that the situation had got worse due to the lack of timely action by the district administration to contain the devastating moves by CMAS.
While the district administration was unable to act against CMAS, it was showing unnecessary urgency in implementing the 3(B) Act for restoration of tribal land in the region, the members alleged. The committee urged the state government to allow some more time before forcing the Act as people are still unaware of the Act.
With Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangh are allegedly issuing threat calls, many members of peace committee spent last night in fear and anxiety.sns

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Narayanpatna CMAS stoking violence

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