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PHULBANI: Members of Phulbani Bar Association submitted a memorandum containing a charter of demands to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik during his visit to the district recently.
The demands included extension of the two -year period under Orissa Scheduled Areas Transfer of Immovable Property (by scheduled tribes) Amendment Regulation 2000 which came into force on September 4, 2002. Due to the amendment, a number of people, other than scheduled tribes, will be rendered homeless as they are totally ignorant about the law, the members contended.
They also urged the Chief Minister to ask Women and Child Development Department to take over the management of District Disabled Rehabilitation Centre as it is plagued by fund crunch.
They also demanded immediate steps to fill up the vacant posts in the headquarters hospital and rural health centres of the district.
As Phulbani is a growing town, a number of encroachment cases are pending since long. So they appealed to settle the non-objectionable lands under “Sarva Kshyama” scheme in favour of the encroached persons taking premia as admissible. For higher education
, the memorandum demanded establishment of a medical or an ayurvedic college or a college for science and technology in the district.
Advocates Samarendra Pattnaik, Bijaya Mohanty, Rabi Mishra and Pratap Patra submitted the memorandum to Chief Minister. Naveen assured to take steps in this regard.
MP THANKS CM: Kandhamal MP Rudra Madhab Ray expressed his gratefulness to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in a statement for extending KBK type scheme to the tribal-dominated district by launching Biju Kandhamal Yojana.
He said when he put forth a demand before the Centre to include the district in KBK Plan, the latter rejected it outright. But the Chief Minister felt that development of such a backward district can only be possible by extending KBK type scheme, he said. By the announcement of the Chief Minister a long-standing demand of the people of the district was fulfilled, Ray said.
Naveen sounds PM for aid
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Bhubaneswar, Oct. 3: Two days after announcing two state-funded schemes for backward Kandhamal and Gajapati districts, chief minister Naveen Patnaik today requested the Prime Minister to formulate special plans for developing the two districts.
Naveen had announced the schemes — Biju Kandhamal Yojana and Biju Gajapati Yojana — during his visit to riot-hit Kandhamal district on Thursday.
Today, he wrote a letter to Manmohan Singh, urging him to formulate special schemes on the lines of the one being implemented in the KBK region, one of the most backward regions of the country.
As per estimates of the 55th round of NSS survey conducted in 1999-2000, the incidence of rural poverty was 87.14 per cent. The region also suffers from acute economic, social and gender disparities, and very adverse socio-economic and human development indicators.
A revised long-term action plan has been effective in the KBK region since 2002-03. The project was prepared in a sub-plan mode to address the peculiar socio-economic problems of this chronically poor region, which is also geographically contiguous.
The project envisages an integrated approach for speeding up socio-economic development of this region by synergising effectively the various developmental activities and schemes under implementation both in central as well as state sectors. The plan includes a special annual central assistance of Rs 130 crore.
In his letter to the Prime Minister, Naveen said he had been repeatedly drawing the attention of the Centre to include backward Kandhamal and Gajapati districts, located close to the KBK region, in the special scheme. “However, it’s unfortunate that the Centre has not yet accepted the state’s rightful demand,” he lamented.
Naveen informed the Prime Minister that his government had recently decided to execute two special schemes for backward Kandhamal and Gajapati districts out of its own resources. About Rs 1.5 crore has been provided for each block for basic facilities like electricity, road connectivity and drinking water.
Political observers believe that the recent move of the state government was to put pressure on the Centre to include the two districts in the KBK scheme.
In 2007, in a bid to snub the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre for its “apathy” to backward regions of Orissa, Naveen had launched Rs 600-crore Biju KBK Yojana spread over a period of five years, alleging that the inflow of central funds was too meagre to develop the region.
Bhubaneswar, Oct. 3: Two days after announcing two state-funded schemes for backward Kandhamal and Gajapati districts, chief minister Naveen Patnaik today requested the Prime Minister to formulate special plans for developing the two districts.
Naveen had announced the schemes — Biju Kandhamal Yojana and Biju Gajapati Yojana — during his visit to riot-hit Kandhamal district on Thursday.
Today, he wrote a letter to Manmohan Singh, urging him to formulate special schemes on the lines of the one being implemented in the KBK region, one of the most backward regions of the country.
As per estimates of the 55th round of NSS survey conducted in 1999-2000, the incidence of rural poverty was 87.14 per cent. The region also suffers from acute economic, social and gender disparities, and very adverse socio-economic and human development indicators.
A revised long-term action plan has been effective in the KBK region since 2002-03. The project was prepared in a sub-plan mode to address the peculiar socio-economic problems of this chronically poor region, which is also geographically contiguous.
The project envisages an integrated approach for speeding up socio-economic development of this region by synergising effectively the various developmental activities and schemes under implementation both in central as well as state sectors. The plan includes a special annual central assistance of Rs 130 crore.
In his letter to the Prime Minister, Naveen said he had been repeatedly drawing the attention of the Centre to include backward Kandhamal and Gajapati districts, located close to the KBK region, in the special scheme. “However, it’s unfortunate that the Centre has not yet accepted the state’s rightful demand,” he lamented.
Naveen informed the Prime Minister that his government had recently decided to execute two special schemes for backward Kandhamal and Gajapati districts out of its own resources. About Rs 1.5 crore has been provided for each block for basic facilities like electricity, road connectivity and drinking water.
Political observers believe that the recent move of the state government was to put pressure on the Centre to include the two districts in the KBK scheme.
In 2007, in a bid to snub the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre for its “apathy” to backward regions of Orissa, Naveen had launched Rs 600-crore Biju KBK Yojana spread over a period of five years, alleging that the inflow of central funds was too meagre to develop the region.
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Kandhamal launch for Naveen schemes
Bhubaneswar, Oct. 1: In an apparent bid to snub the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre, chief minister Naveen Patnaik today announced two state-funded schemes for Kandhamal and Gajapati.
Naveen announced Biju Kandhamal Yojana and Biju Gajapati Yojana during today’s Kandhamal visit, which also saw him flag off a slew of schemes, facilities and programmes for the state.
Earlier, Naveen had urged the Centre to include Kandhamal and Gajapati in its special programme for the backward KBK region (Koraput-Bolangir-Kalahandi). As his plea went “unheeded”, Naveen launched the two programmes out of the state’s resources, to be effective from the current fiscal.
Under the programme, Rs 1.5 crore will be released to each block in the two districts for the construction of roads, supply of drinking water and power. Naveen said he would soon write to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh informing him of the schemes.
In 2007, the Naveen government had launched a state-funded, Rs 600-crore Biju KBK Yojana, alleging that the inflow of central fund was “too little” to develop the region.
Under the KBK yojana, Rs 1.5 crore would have been spent on each block of eight districts of the region.
During his visit to Dutipada Tribal Girls’ School in Kandhamal today, Naveen also launched the School Health Programme, an ambitious scheme that would cover 58-lakh students in 60,000 schools across the state.
Rs 12.29 crore has been sanctioned for implementing the scheme this fiscal, said the chief minister. “It will take health care to the doorsteps of each and every school in the state,” he said.
Students of Classes I to X, belonging to both residential and non-residential schools, will benefit under the scheme, which will screen students twice a year and treat minor ailments, while referring critical and chronic cases to hospitals.
On an inauguration spree, Naveen also launched Project Arogya, a special package to provide health services to remote areas in Phulbani district headquarters. He cut the ribbon for a special intensive care unit (ICU) for infants and inaugurated a resthouse for accredited social health activists and distributed bicycles among them.
The same day, he launched a single-window system for integrated services such as on-the-spot payment under Janani Suraksha Yojana, issue of birth certificates, distribution of mother and baby kits, immunisation, family planning counselling, Janani Express Helpline for pregnant mothers and Asha grievance cell.
Also on his agenda, a mega-nursery at Mula Gudari, for which the chief minister laid the foundation stone, as he did for a hostel at Phulbani sports complex and for a government teachers’ training college at Sartaguda village.
Naveen also distributed land pattas under Forest Rights Act, old age and widow pensions under Madhubabu Pension Yojana and loans to women self-help groups.
Two more welfare schemes after Biju Patnaik
Bhubaneswar: Adding to the list of a chain of welfare programmes after his father Biju Patnaik’s name, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik made public two more pro-poor schemes in the state after the name of the legendary chief minister on Thursday.
The welfare programmes, christened as Biju Kandhamal Yojna and Biju Gajapati Yojna, would be on the lines of the Biju KBK Yojna.
“Like the Biju KBK Yojna, the two welfare schemes would be called as Biju Kandhamal Yojna and Biju Gajapati Yojna. The poor people in the two districts would be benefited under the programme. Bijli, Pani and Sadak (electricity, water and road) would be given prime importance in the programme,” Naveen said. He was here to inaugurate some welfare programmes in the district.
Naveen said he would write to the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh urging him to launch similar Yojanas for the people of Kandhamal and Gajapati districts. He added that the state government's demands to include the two poverty stricken districts in poverty amelioration programmes were ignored by both NDA and UPA governments at the Centre.
The Biju Kandhamal Yojana and Biju Gajapati Yojana would be funded from the state's own resources and would work for electrification, roads, creation of water sources and livelihood schemes.
Under the new schemes the state government would spend Rs 1.5 crore per annum for each block of Kandhamal and Gajapati districts.
The welfare programmes, christened as Biju Kandhamal Yojna and Biju Gajapati Yojna, would be on the lines of the Biju KBK Yojna.
“Like the Biju KBK Yojna, the two welfare schemes would be called as Biju Kandhamal Yojna and Biju Gajapati Yojna. The poor people in the two districts would be benefited under the programme. Bijli, Pani and Sadak (electricity, water and road) would be given prime importance in the programme,” Naveen said. He was here to inaugurate some welfare programmes in the district.
Naveen said he would write to the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh urging him to launch similar Yojanas for the people of Kandhamal and Gajapati districts. He added that the state government's demands to include the two poverty stricken districts in poverty amelioration programmes were ignored by both NDA and UPA governments at the Centre.
The Biju Kandhamal Yojana and Biju Gajapati Yojana would be funded from the state's own resources and would work for electrification, roads, creation of water sources and livelihood schemes.
Under the new schemes the state government would spend Rs 1.5 crore per annum for each block of Kandhamal and Gajapati districts.
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