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the pioneer STATE EDITION ‘INCOME OPPORTUNITIES AT HOME CAN PREVENT DISTRESS MIGRATION’ Thursday, 28 November 2013 | AJIT PANDA | NUAPADA | in  Bhubaneswar About 60,000 poor people of Nuapada district, constituting about 10 per cent of its total population, are migrant labourers. The hapless lot resorts to distress migration as a coping mechanism to escape poverty and marginalisation at home. The migrants neither have any objection to the unfavourable terms of engagement of the employer, nor can challenge the living conditions in the workplace. Gradually, increasing migration in the district represents many social and economic processes, including a degree of social and political mobilisation of the poor, who want to escape from the cycle of poverty and inhumanisation. But, migration does not provide them any respite from the vicious cycle of poverty. These were the observations made by the participants of a consultation on livelihood planning for the migrant and bo...

the pioneer RED TERROR STRIKES BIHAR, ODISHA Sunday, 01 December 2013 | PNS | PATNA/ NUAPADA/ NEW DELHI 1 In a daring attack, armed Maoists on Saturday shot dead three GRP jawans and injured two others, besides looting five automatic rifles from them in the running Sahebganj-Patna InterCity Express in Bihar’s Munger district. In neighbouring Odisha, two security personnel were killed during an encounter with Maoists in Sunabeda area of Nuapada district. The Munger incident took place in the running train near a tunnel between Jamalpur and Ashikpur railway stations this evening, Jamalpur’s Railway Superintendent of Police Amitabh Kumar Das said, adding two other GRP jawans sustained bullet injuries. The Maoists looted five rifles from the GRP jawans before fleeing. The deceased GRP jawans have been identified as Hawaldar Ashok Kumar, constables Bhola Thakur and Uday Singh, Das said adding that the bodies were being sent for post-mortem. The injured GRP jawans ar...