Tension runs high in Narayanpatna

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Source: The Hindu (http://www.hinduonnet.com/2009/11/25/stories/2009112553100300.htm)
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Tension runs high in Narayanpatna


Staff Reporter

Communication to interior areas comes to a standstill due to road blockades
BERHAMPUR: Common people in Narayanpatna are getting affected by the tussle between the Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangh (CMAS) and the police.
They are the worst sufferers after the police firing on CMAS activists on Friday last, which killed two persons. Communication to interior areas of the block has come to a standstill due to road blockades by CMAS. Massive police presence has also put tribals and dalits in a panicky state. According to sources there is a dearth of food material and other essential goods in interior areas. But fearing police action and arrest people are not coming out to Narayanpatna town to collect their essential commodities.
The basic survival needs for these tribals living in interiors of this block like the Public Distribution Syestem, NREGS, schools and health facility are affected.
Lack of communication has increased misinformation and gossips in the interiors of the block. The CMAS, administration and the police seem to have left the persons injured in the police firing to their own fate. Due to ample police deployment the CMAS leaders are also not mobbing around to take note of the injured.
A fact-finding team lead by senior scribe of Koraput district Sudhakar Patnaik pointed out that till now the exact number of persons injured in the police firing was not ascertained. The injured persons who have bullet injuries are not coming out fearing arrest. No attempts have been made to reach out these injured persons to provide them medical help. Nihar Ranjan Patnaik, who has been appointed by the government as special advocate to look after the tribal land dispute cases of Narayanpatna area said it was high time for the administration to use a mobile medical unit for the treatment of the victims.
Mr Patnaik said most villages are now inhabited by women and the diseased as the men hide in the jungles. Anganwadis and ASHA workers do not have medicines to treat the injured and the diseased.


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