The farmer leaders started the yatra from Bhubaneswar after paying floral tribute to Mahatma Gandhi at the Mahatma Gandhi Park on Friday.
BHUBANESWAR: Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella body of 14 farmers outfits in the state, has started 12-day-long Krushak Adhikar Yatra (March for farmer rights) in Odisha protesting farm laws and showing solidarity to farmers’ movement in New Delhi.
Commemorating the historic Dandi March on March 12, 1930, the farmer leaders started the yatra from Bhubaneswar after paying floral tribute to Mahatma Gandhi at the Mahatma Gandhi Park here on Friday. They boarded a bus to travel to different districts of the state and sensitize farmers about the harmful effect of the farm laws.
DG, prisons Santosh Upadhyay
BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha prisons directorate has issued a standard operating procedure (SOP) for jails to effectively handle emergencies like jailbreaks and escape of prisoners from judicial custody. A special joint drive would be launched by the police and prisons staff to recapture the escapees.
The guidelines have been framed in the wake of the escape of two under-trial prisoners (UTPs) from a sub-jail at R.Udayagiri in Gajapati district earlier this month. While one of the UTPs was recaptured, the other one is still on the run. A warder of the sub-jail was suspended for dereliction of duty. Besides, jail authorities had lodged a police complaint against the warder for allegedly helping the two UTPs escape from the jail. Notably, Maoists had attacked R.Udayagiri sub-jail in March 2006 and freed 42 inmates, including some Maoists.
BHUBANESWAR: Apollo Cancer Center, Bhubaneswar has performed Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) successfully on a 52-year-old woman patient recently.
This procedure was done by Salil Kumar Parida, consultant surgical gastroenterology and gastrointestinal oncosurgery, of the centre for the first time in Odisha.
Almost four years back the patient was diagnosed with Appendiceal mucinous neoplasm with Pseudomyxomaperitoni for which she had undergone cytoreductive surgery with HIPEC in July 2018 in New Delhi. The patient was on regular follow up since then. Recently, the patient came to Chinmaya Pani, medical oncologist, Apollo Cancer Center with complaints of abdominal distension for about a month.
After examining the patient and running all the essential tests, Pani found that the patient has again developed a recurrence of the tumour and he referred the case to Salil Kumar Parida for surgical intervention and HIPEC.
The development assumes significance as the state assembly recently passed a unanimous resolution to allow devotees to contribute in cash or kind for the ambitious Jagannath heritage corridor project around the temple.
BHUBANESWAR: The Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) in Puri has decided to float an ambitious donation plan in May to shore up the shrine’s revenue. The SJTA has set a target to raise the temple’s corpus fund to Rs 1,000 crore by 2023 Rath Yatra (June or July) from the existing Rs 650 crore.
“We are working on the big plan to encourage devotees to donate to the temple. Donation boxes would be installed at the airport, railway station, educational institutions and companies. Currently, we receive around Rs 12 crore donation annually from the temple hundi (donation box),” SJTA’s chief administrator Krishan Kumar said after holding a preparatory meeting to finalize the temple budget for 2021-22.
BHUBANESWAR: Odisha has collected the highest amount of Rs 11,984 crore among all the states under the District Mineral Foundation (DMF) fund since it was created in 2015, Union mines minister Pralhad Joshi told Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
Till January, a total of Rs 45,095.86 crore in DMF fund was generated in the country. Odisha got more than one-fourth of the share, the minister’s written reply revealed. Neighbouring Jharkhand (Rs 6,533.04 crore) and Chhattisgarh (Rs 6,329.78 crore) managed to collect the second and third highest amounts under DMF. Rajasthan is fourth, having collected Rs 4,496 crore.
The funds are contribution from mining companies operating in the respective districts, which has been mandated under the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 2015. The mining companies pay 30% equivalent of the royalty amount for leases given before 2015 and 10% for leases granted after that when auction of mines and mineral blocks started.