Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Focus on primary education

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Focus on primary education


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KORAPUT: New equations seem to have been drawn in Koraput district for ensuring primary education at the grassroots. While 606 teachers from primary and upper primary schools in Koraput have been transferred, 244 of them got transferred in Jeypore.
It is for the first time in the last many years that transfer of teachers in such a high scale has been carried out in Koraput district. Moreover, while the transfers in the past were mostly influenced by the leaders of various political parties and others close to the education department, this time it was done under the direct supervision of district Collector Rajesh Pravakar Patil.
While teachers from the urban areas were transferred to rural areas and vice-versa, efforts were made to see that the woman teachers who were transferred from the urban areas got posting in schools near to the approachable roads in the block areas and especially in the schools where special girls' hostels were opened recently, Mr. Patil said. However for serious gaps like transferring the same teacher to more than one place, transferring some teachers who were engaged in census work and allegedly not maintaining any particular criteria in the process of transfer, the initiative was put under scanner by the critics. Such unwarranted cases and other instances with genuine health concern would be reviewed for correction, Mr. Patil added.
Data bank
According to Mr. Patil, the district should have a proper data bank of teachers at one place to facilitate more transparency in such a situation. Efforts are now in progress to create an elaborate data bank on all the teachers in the district documenting their service over a certain period of time tracking their history, present day's status and their strength and resourcefulness. This will also be placed in the official website of the district for more transparency.






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Three Maoists held

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Three Maoists held


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BERHAMPUR: Three hardcore Maoists were arrested from the Chintalwada jungles in Malkangiri district on Thursday.
They were allegedly involved in the attack on the Balimela hydro-electricity project and the attack on a Special Police Officer (SPO) in the district. According to Malkangiri district police headquarters these Maoists were nabbed during a joint operation by the Special Operation Group (SOG) jawans and District Voluntary Force (DVF) personnel inside the Chintalwada forest about 45 km from Malkangiri town in the wee hours of Thursday.
The arrested persons were identified as Budura Padiami, Irma Kabasi and Sarat Behera. It was suspected that some more Maoists may have managed to escape from the spot. The arrested persons were being interrogated at Malkangiri town. Initial investigation hinted that they were involved in several incidents of major Maoist violence in Malkangiri district.






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Naxals kill jawan

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Naxals kill jawan


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BERHAMPUR: Maoists murdered a jawan of the Shasastra Seema Bal (SSB) in Malkangiri district on Wednesday night.
The jawan Manoram Durua had returned to his native village Markapalli under Mathili police station area a few days ago. He was on leave to celebrate the Raja festival. According to the Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police Sanjeev Panda it was a cold-blooded murder by Maoists to create havoc in the area.
Around seven to eight armed Maoists had called at the house of Durua on Wednesday night. They had taken the jawan with them and shot him at close range, Mr Panda said. There is suspicion that Maoists resorted to this killing due to a false idea that the jawan was serving the Border Security Force (BSF) who are now deployed in Malkangiri district for a major anti-Maoist joint operation.
The panic of Maoists has started to show up in Malkangiri as five village guards posted in naxal-infested Kalimela police station area were reported to have sent in their resignation letters due to threat of Maoists on their lives. The DIG said these village guards had submitted their resignation letters at the Kalimela police station.






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Forest official dead

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Forest official dead

KORAPUT: V. Raja Reddy , regional Chief Conservator of Forests (RCCF), Koraput, died of heart attack on Thursday .
He was admitted in the district head quarter hospital in the town afer complaining chest pain after playing lawn tennis in the morning. He was 50. His body was taken by his family members to Hyderabad.



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Panchayats in Kotpad block facing acute water shortage

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Panchayats in Kotpad block facing acute water shortage


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Villagers in the region seek some measures to tide over the crisis


KORAPUT: Ghasiram Jani of Sahanimunda village in Murtahandi panchayat of Kotpad block in Koraput district had to sell a pair of buffalos and purchase a pair of bullocks as the former was required to be cleaned regularly and thus more water was needed. Water is available in little quantity and the cattle had to be taken to Makagaon, by covering at least five km of distance, for their bath with the water of the Janra river. Ghasiram takes them once in a month to the river.
However, according to Katulu Durua of Malchamal village in the same panchayat, cattle is more often left to themselves even for more than three months at a stretch due to acute shortage of water in the region. Of the two tubewells in Malchamal, one is in working condition. But the amount of water that comes out of it is so little that families have to wait night long to fill their pots for storing drinking water.
Ghasiram owns 17 acres of land. But, for the lack of water he could cultivate paddy only during rainy season. He manages the family with the total output of the land from a single crop. But, the marginal farmers living in the forest area often depend upon the minor forest products. They even migrate to work in the green chilli farms on the other side of the river in the neighbouring State of Chhattisgarh.
Affected by drought
Chatarla, Murtahandi and Chandli panchayats in Kotpad block have been affected by draught last year. Compensation was paid to the farmers. But, the situation could not be changed for anything better even this year for the lack of proper initiatives. These villages are now surrounded by a number of ponds. But none of them has water for use in time of need. While waiting for regeneration of groundwater through these ponds, some of the funds could have been spent on digging a canal to bring water to these panchayats from the Janra river. This might have brought some solution to the water crisis of the region, says Ghasiram.






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Red flags planted

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Red flags planted


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KORAPUT: Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangh (CMAS) seems to have reclaimed its lost hold in parts of Narayanpatna block in Koraput district after a long spell of silence .
In a surprising move hundreds of its members mostly women placed red flags in agricultural lands to the tune of hundreds of acres in Balipeta and Tentulipadar panchayats in the block during the last few days.
While this was the way in which the sangh had occupied more than two thousand acres of land in the region, it had faced serious setback after losing two of its top leaders to the bullets of police at Narayanpatna in November last year.






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Armed gang claiming to be naxals loots house

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Armed gang claiming to be naxals loots house


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KORAPUT: A group of people claiming themselves to be Maoists from Bhubaneswar attacked the house of Bibhisan Hantal, the sarpanch of Haldikund panchayat in Boipariguda block of Koraput district in the early hours of Tuesday .
According to Mr. Hantal a group of 40 people armed with swords and country-made revolvers had enquired about his whereabouts by knocking at his brother's door in his residence at Rupabeda a village around 1.30 am .
Not finding him in the front house they torched two tractors on the premises before entering his bedroom in the backside of the campus . The group members, most of whom had faces covered in black cloth looted his house . They took one gold chain , Rs.30,000, a new motorcycle and his mobile phone before leaving the spot with a demand of Rs.5 Lakh which was to be handed over to them in Dokri ghat within a week, he added.
While the villagers were alarmed by his brother about the incidence , the villagers had no other way than to retreat when an old man was attacked by the group . While the group had claimed themselves to be Maoists, Mr.Hantal however suspects the hand of his rival group of people behind the incident . A complain has been made against the suspected people at Boipariguda police station , he added.






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Media sensitisation programme

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Media sensitisation programme


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KORAPUT: An effective media can raise the awareness level and can also bring about sustainable behaviour change in society, Rabi Narayan Das, CDMO, Koraput, said at the district level media sensitisation programme on TB & HIV/AIDS at Korpaut on Wednesday .
While the threat of these symptoms was on the rise in Koraput district, media had the capability to bring about transformation in the thinking pattern of society in respect to the people living with HIV/AIDS .
Attending as guest of honour, Niranjan Das, ADMO, said that while there were at least 30,000 TB patients in Koraput district with 650 of them losing their lives to the disease every year for irregular medicine intake and negligent attitude towards the disease , media could bring a change by sensitizing people in this regard .
The programme was organised by Lepra Society .






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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Maoists target panchayat bodies in south Orissa

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Maoists target panchayat bodies in south Orissa


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Security personnel and panchayat bodies are facing severe Maoist threat


BERHAMPUR: Maoists have started to use terror tactics to hamper the functioning of panchayat bodies in remote areas of south Orissa.
Through this they want to stall the pro-poor developmental projects and subsidised Public Distribution System (PDS) in underdeveloped remote areas. For it they have started terrorising the elected members of panchayat bodies. Maoists are damaging the panchayat offices and panchayat warehouses meant for storing PDS supplies.
In Rayagada district, the vice chairman of Chandrapur block panchayat samity S.Iswar Rao, panchyat samity member of Budubali panchayat Narasi Gangaranga, female nayab sarpanch of the same panchayat K.Mutika have rendered their resignation at the Chandrapur block office.
It was alleged that recently these elected representatives had received threats from leader of the Basadara Divisional Committee of the banned CPI (Maoist) organisation to resign or face dire consequences.
The elected representatives are mum about the reason behind their sudden resignation. In Feb. 2009 a sarpanch and seven ward members of Rasakola panchayat of Bisamkatak block in Rayagada district had resigned following naxal threats.
Along with it there were reports of resignations of some Special Police Officers (SPO) in same Chandrapur block. It may be noted that SPOs and village guards play a major role in maintenance of security in remote rural areas.
The Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had directed the Rayagada district Collector Nitin Bhanudas Jawale to investigate and report about these resignations. Speaking to The Hindu the Rayagada district collector confirmed the resignation of three elected members of local bodies. “But in their resignation letters they have either cited their personal or health problems or their agony against functioning of the local Block Development Officer”, he said. Regarding the resignation of SPOs he said no resignation of any SPO had reached any police station or district police headquarter.
But at the grass root level security personnel and panchayat bodies are facing severe Maoist threat. Maoists blew up buildings of a panchayat offices and warehouses attached to them at Kangurkonda,
Telarai and Bodigata villages in Malkangiri district in May.
On May 6 night Maoists had damaged the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) office at remote Kudumuluguma under Orkel police station in Malkangiri district. In February eleven elected members of panchayats of cut off areas of Balimela reservoir in Malkangiri district had resigned. According to intelligence sources, the threat of Maoists was a major cause behind their resignation.
The Maoists claim they are damaging panchayat buildings so that they may not be used as camps by security forces during anti-Maoist operations. But as per police and administrative officials by keeping the elected panchayat bodies under the shroud of their terror and damaging the PDS storage units they want to keep people living in remote areas away from the pro-poor developmental programmes like MGNREGS. It is alleged to be part of their strategy to strengthen their base and ant-government propaganda in remote areas.
Added to it they have also started to create terror in the minds of grass root level policemen. They shot dead a police constable at a crowded village market at Padia under Kalimela police station in Malkangiri on May 16.
On May 11 night Maoists murdered two village guards at Katama village in Gajapati district.






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Rethink needed on tribal development programmes'

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‘Rethink needed on tribal development programmes'


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KORAPUT: There was a need to rethink the approaches towards a sustainable tribal development in a cultural perspective .This was more felt at a time when most of the tribal development programmes had failed terribly both at the planning and implementation levels, Jagabandhu Samal, retired professor of economics and a renowned researcher on tribal way of life, said here on Sunday. While in some cases, the programmes for them were unrealistic for not touching the roots of their problems, in other cases their skills and their needs were not understood and more importantly their cultural values were ignored.
Development did not happen as specified activities within the boundary of economics. It was a comprehensive and all encompassing process and thus embedded in culture, he added. According to Dr.Samal, the tribal people expressed their cultural identity and distinctiveness in their social and political organization, language, rituals and festivals as well as in their dress pattern, ornaments, technology, art and craft. There was a need of an anthropological approach to tribal development, he added.






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