Date : 3rd January 2010
Bhubaneswar (Odisha): Interior Odisha continued to reel under severe cold wave on Sunday as minimum temperature at five major towns of the state has dipped below 8 degree Celsius. The temperature at Daringbadi in Phulbani and Tensa in Sundargarh touched 0 degree Celsius. Snowfall has been reported in these two centres.
Meanwhile, the temperature in Phulbani is reported to be 4 degree Celsius, Sundargarh 5.9 degree C, Koraput 10.5 degree C, Sambalpur 6.5 degree C, Angul 6 degree C, Bhawanipatna 6.5 degrees C, Jharsuguda 7 degree C, Chandbali 9.8 degrees C, Bhubaneswar 11.3 degrees C and Cuttack 11.6 degree C. The temperature was appreciably below normal over interior pockets and below normal over coastal Odisha. The cold wave would continue for another 48 hours, said an official of the local Met office here.
A stiff breeze and poor visibility due to fog kept people indoors till 10 am in most places. The breeze and dipping temperatures in evening hours also ensured that people remained indoors. The state is impacted by the cold wave prevailing in northern parts of the country, said officials indicating that even neighbouring states like Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and parts of West Bengal were reeling under similar conditions.
Snowfall at Daringbadi ?
Cold wave sweeps in Orissa
Bhubaneswar, Jan 3 2010 Chilling cold wave swept across most parts of Orissa today with Phulbani turning the coldest place with four degrees Celsius.
As mercury fell well below the normal level in many parts of the state, the capital city of Bhubaneswar recorded a minimum temperature of 11.3 degrees Celsius.
Most parts in north, west and interior Orissa shivered as the temperature dropped substantially affecting normal life in some places like Daringbadi (0 Degree) and Raikia in Kandhamal where the district headquarter town of Phulbani recorded 4 degrees Celsius, the Met centre said here.
The minimum temperature in Sambalpur was recorded at 5.7 degrees Celsius, while it was 5.9 degrees in Sundargarh, six degrees Celsius at Angul, 7 degrees in Jharsuguda and eight degree Celsius in Keonjhar.
The met office said the cold wave conditions would persist over many parts of the state during the next two days.
Job mela in Kandhamal dist a big success
Date : 28th December 2009
BHUBANESWAR: The district administration of the trouble-torn Kandhamal has taken the initiative to provide employment opportunities to unemployed youth as part of its social responsibility.
Organising a first-ever job mela in the district headquarters on the Christmas-eve, the administration identified over 2,000 unemployed youth for job-linked training programmes.
Bangalore-based Raxa Security Agency, a subsidiary of GMR group, recruited 40 persons at the job mela (employment fair) on a monthly salary of Rs 6,500, Kandhamal district collector Krishen Kumar told this paper.
While a first batch of 270 youths from the district are undergoing a three-month training programme at the Apparel Training and Design Centre (ATDC) here from October, 600 more have been selected for the training programme.
The second batch will join the training course in January, he said.
As two more ATDC centres are coming up at Berhampur and Rourkela, arrangements are being made with the new centres for skill upgradation and capacity building of the interested youth of the district. The training cost of the selected youth is covered under the Sampoorn Gramin Rojgar Yojana (SGSY), a self-employment scheme of the Centre.
More and more youth are keen on the training programme as employment is guaranteed after the training, Kumar said.
Another 64 youths have been selected for training at the Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Limited (IL&FS) training centre at Hinjilikatu in Ganjam district. IL&FS, a leading infrastructure and finance company, is going to set up its second training centre in Phulbani.
Kumar said that 540 persons have been identified for livelihood training programme imparted by IL&FS.
The Bangalore-based Construction Skill Training Institute (CSTI), a concern of engineering and construction giant Larsen and Toubro (L&T) and National Academy of Construction, Hyderabad, have offered to provide training in masonry, plumbing, carpentry, electrical wiring and related trades in the construction business.
The two training institutes will provide three months training for which 600 youths have been identified. The two institutes have also assured job guarantee to the trained persons.
Kumar said job mela will be organised every quarter to facilitate employment opportunities for the unemployed of the district. As registration at the employment exchanges is almost nil, efforts will be made to register unemployed youth at panchayat level, he added.
