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STATE EDITIONS ILLEGAL CONCESSIONS AVAILED IN N’PADA MI WORKS CONTRACT Saturday, 31 August 2013 | AJIT PANDA | NUAPADA | in  Bhubaneswar 1 2 3 4 5 0 Duryodhan Majhi of Dabri village in Nuapada district is a poor tribal man with two acres of agriculture land. His crop practice itself reveals that the land he owns is of marginal quality and yielding less. He has a BPL card which allows him to get 25 kg rice under PDS every month. This brings a great succor to manage the family of six persons. But the records of the Government reveal that Majhi is very rich.  He is a ‘B’ class contractor. A certificate of registration under Registration Rules, 1967 has been issued to him. He has been awarded tenders of as many as 18 construction works in past three years, with a total cost of more than Rs 8 crore. Another interesting fact is that in all of the tenders, the agreement cost is less even to the extent of 20 to 30 per cent than the estimated cost. He h...

the pioneer - state edition RS 25 LAKH LOWER INDRA GOOF-UP UNEARTHED Thursday, 29 August 2013 | AJIT PANDA | NUAPADA | in  Bhubaneswar 1 2 3 4 5 1 The Nuapada district police stumbled upon a fraudulent transaction worth more than Rs 25 lakh in the disbursement of payment of rehabilitation assistance to fake displaced persons (DP) of the Lower Indra Irrigation Project (LIIP) and arrested Bhawanipatna Central Cooperative Bank, Khariar branch’s former manager Ashok Hota and Bijaya Sahish on Monday. When Hota and Sahish were sent to jail custody, a third accused in the case Luhar is still absconding. “Our district office was closely observing the activities of the accused persons for past one month when it got a report of fraudulent transaction from the Project Director of Rehabilitation & Resettlement (PDRR) division of the LIIP. Finally, we apprehended the accused persons on August 26 after one Agasti Patel of Kanabira, which is one of the affect...

the pioneer - STATE EDITION NUAPADA DM’S MOVE ON PRIMARY EDU FLAYED Tuesday, 27 August 2013 | AJIT PANDA | NUAPADA | in  Bhubaneswar 1 2 3 4 5 0 New Collector of Nuapada Jaykumar V has taken interest to improve the quality of primary education in the district by focusing on the improvement of attendance of children and teachers, child health and sanitation and proper distribution of hygienic MDM. But the steps taken by the Collector to bring the changes have not gone down well with the teachers and have been criticised by the two teachers’ associations of the district. What is creating resentment among the teachers is the system introduced by the Collector to assure regular attendance of the teachers in the school. The Collector has instructed the District Project Coordinator (DPC) and the District Education Office (DEO) to implement a system where each school has to submit a format containing the names of the teachers and their initials, full sig...

the pioneer - STATE EDITION DIARRHOEA, CHOLERA SPECTRES STILL HAUNT NUAPADA Saturday, 24 August 2013 | AJIT PANDA | NUAPADA | in  Bhubaneswar Khula Asma ke Niche: "we are happy that our child was saved" Picture by Maya Saraf, OTV, Nuapada Despite the claim of the district health administration that cholera and diarrhoea in Sinapali block is under control, there is every possibility of their reoccurrence. The recent death of a person in Sinapali town has confirmed the outbreak of cholera in the area. Besides, two more deaths have occurred due to diarrhoea in Kusumkhunta village of Gorla gram panchayat. The deceased include a two and half years old kid. “Diarrhoea in our village started after the migrant workers returned from their Andhra trip,” the villagers said. Officials of the health department confirmed that the source of diarrhoea in the village was the use of water from the village pond, where the diarrhoea affected people washed their clothes. A ...