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the pioneer, STATE EDITION GOVT ENTITLEMENTS ELUDE POOR KHARIAR FISHERS http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/bhubaneswar/govt-entitlements-elude-poor-khariar-fishers.html Thursday, 21 November 2013 | AJIT PANDA | NUAPADA | in  Bhubaneswar 1 2 3 4 5 0 Iused to do fishing when I was an able bodied person. Now I am old and weak, unable to move anywhere. We don’t have the right to fish in the ponds in Khariar town because they have been leased to contractors. We don’t have money to take the ponds in auction. We have lost our source of living,” lamented Ugresan Kaibarta of Ward No – 3 of Khariar town. Ugrasen, who is now above 70 years’ of age, literally broke down and cried, when he narrated his experience of running to the officials and the elected representative of the Notified Area Council (NAC) office for support. “They never listened to the poor like us,” he said. Ugrasen lives with his 65-year-old wife in a dilapidated mud house in...

The pioneer, state edition http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/bhubaneswar/low-wage-major-mgnregs-handicap-in-nuapada.html LOW WAGE MAJOR MGNREGS HANDICAP IN NUAPADA Wednesday, 13 November 2013 | AJIT PANDA | NUAPADA | in  Bhubaneswar         0 A group of seven labourers led by one Nilamani Ghibela of Khariar block worked in a road improvement project under MGNREGS in Padmapur village under Badi gram panchayat (GP). After 14 days of work, the group excavated 12,678 cubic feet (cft) of earth but instead of being paid their actual due of Rs 29,209 in total, they were paid only Rs 14, 014 by the panchayat authorities. Likewise, another group headed by Rajindra Bag with six labourers excavated 9,556 cft in 14 days and were paid Rs 12,012 instead of Rs 22,016 which was their actual due as per measurement of the excavated pits. There are 15 such groups in Padmapur village with 61 labourers, who have excavated about 9.5 lakh cft but h...