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  • Two statues and a separating wall stoke controversy in Jagatsinghpur

    By Express News Service

    JAGATSINGHPUR: Installation of statue of former MLA late Bishnu Das subsequent to the idol of Utkalmani Pandit Gopabandhu Das, a legendary freedom fighter and pioneering social reformer, at native market in Raghunathpur has stoked controversy. After the transfer drew criticism, the administration in a bid to calm the nerves has determined to erect a wall between the 2 photographs.

    Social activists and Congress members on Wednesday launched an indefinite starvation strike protesting set up of the picture of Das. His statue had been put in close to that of Utkalmani beneath one roof at Raghunathpur Bazaar by native BJD leaders who determined to unveil it on July 25 however native administration cancelled the occasion as a result of weekend shutdown and saved the statue coated.

    Subsequently, each Congress and BJP members met Collector Sangram Keshari Mohapatra and Raghunathpur BDO Jitendra Nayak and submitted memorandum demanding to shift Das’ statue to a different spot on the bottom that it was disrespectful to Utkalmani. The problem was additionally opposed by many outfits of Jagatsinghpur together with Navnirman Krushak Sangathan.

    Despite the opposition, the statue was unveiled on July 29 which was protested by each BJP and Congress employees. To pacify them, the native administration coated the picture and warranted the Opposition leaders to shift it elsewhere. However, the administration modified its determination and deliberate to erect a wall between the statues. It pressed employees to assemble the wall on Tuesday.  

    Protesting this, the Krushak Sangathan and Congress leaders launched an indefinite starvation strike on the spot on the day and threatened to accentuate the stir if the statue of Das isn’t shifted.BDO Jitendra Nayak mentioned to keep up legislation and order scenario, the administration determined to separate the 2 statues by erecting a wall between the them and creating separate entrances. 

    Three statues of the late MLA have been scheduled to be put in at Biridi, Raghunathpur and Tirtol blocks to commemorate his first loss of life anniversary on July 7.  

  • Driven by poverty, man ends life after killing spouse and daughter in Odisha

    Express News Service
    JAGATSINGHPUR: Driven by poverty, a 55-year-old man allegedly killed his spouse and daughter earlier than ending his personal life in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district within the wee hours of Saturday.

    The deceased had been recognized as Lokanath Pal, his spouse Kalpana (50) and daughter Madhusmtia (20) of Jota Chandpatana village.

    Sources stated Lokanath, who labored as a mason, was dwelling in excessive poverty as a result of lack of development work in the course of the lockdown interval.

    Unable to feed his members of the family as a result of monetary constraints, he was beneath great stress. They had been even discovering it tough to rearrange for 2 sq. meals a day resulting in household disputes on many events. While his spouse was a paralytic affected person, his daughter was learning Plus III in a personal girls’s faculty.

    According to some locals, Kalpana had an argument with Lokanath over every day bills as he was unable to provide her medication. Being aggrieved, he attacked his spouse and daughter with a crowbar injuring them critically.

    Though each the girl and her daughter had been shifted to district headquarters hospital, Madhusmita died whereas present process remedy on the DHH. Kalapana succumbed to her accidents on the best way to SCB Medical College and Hospital at Cuttack.

    Later, Lokanath ended his life by hanging himself with a rope from the ceiling of his home.

    After being knowledgeable, native police reached the spot and despatched the injured individuals to native hospital and the physique for postmortem. Preliminary investigations revealed that he took the acute step after quarrelling with spouse.

    Sarapanch of Odiso Panchayat Ahalaya Sethy stated Lokanath was very upset as a result of poverty as he didn’t discover any work in the course of the lockdown. He was unable to keep up his household as a result of paucity of funds resulting in quarrels with members of the family. Harassed, he might need dedicated the crime and suicide, she added.

    Sources stated Lokanath’s son is separated from the household and staying in Bhubaneswar for the final 5 years after marrying a lady from a decrease caste.

    Meanwhile, his brother Sankar Pal has lodged an FIR in an area police station following which police have registered a case.

    IIC of Jagatsinghpur police station Pravash Sahoo stated police have recovered the our bodies of the person and his daughter together with the blood stained crowbar and twine. A household dispute over poverty is being suspected because the trigger behind the double homicide and suicide. A forensic group has visited the spot and additional investigation is on, he added.

  • Cyclone Yaas: NDRF staff that evacuated 842 in Gujarat rescues 10 fishermen in Odisha

    Express News Service
    BHUBANESWAR: A National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) staff, which had evacuated 842 individuals in Gujarat throughout extraordinarily extreme cyclone Tauktae, rescued 10 fishermen of Jagatsinghpur district who had been stranded in the midst of a river in pitch darkness on Tuesday.

    The 10 fishermen of Japa village below Erasama police limits had presumably not realized the danger of venturing into Jatadhar river, only a day forward of very extreme cyclone Yaas’s landfall in north coastal Odisha.

    Their boat reportedly capsized however they managed to swim to a river island.

    One of the fishermen telephoned the sarpanch and expressed his apprehension that they may get pulled by the sturdy river present.

    The sarpanch instantly contacted the Block Development Officer (BDO), Tehsildar and Erasama police and knowledgeable them concerning the perilous scenario of the stranded fishermen.

    A ship with 10 individuals had gone for fishing and was returning yesterday when it capsized close to the shore off Japa in Jagatsinghpur’s Ersama. All 10 had been rescued by @NDRFHQ , @odisha_police and BDO. @NewIndianXpress @XpressOdisha pic.twitter.com/RvjReY7ajO
    — Siba Mohanty (@Siba_TNIE) May 26, 2021

    Jagatsinghpur collector Sangram Keshari Mohapatra was alerted concerning the incident and he bought in contact with district SP R Prakash.

    Two groups of NDRF had been stationed in Jagatsinghpur – one in Paradip and the opposite in Erasama. Prakash, who had accompanied IG (Operations) Amitabh Thakur to Sandhakuda slum in Paradip as some locals had been reluctant to get shifted to cyclone shelters, requested Erasama police to help the NDRF staff in reaching the spot.

    A 16-member staff led by NDRF Inspector Purshotam Singh Rana arrived close to Jatadhar river within the night and launched an operation at 6.40 pm to rescue the fishermen.

    “It was raining heavily and squally winds were blowing in the area. Besides, as it was completely dark, the operation was very challenging for us but we are trained to handle such situations and 10 fishermen were safely brought to the shore in our inflatable motor boats,” Rana advised The New Indian Express.

    The NDRF personnel had been outfitted with rescue lights and life jackets and so they efficiently accomplished the rescue operation by 7.10 pm.

    Rana’s staff, which was airlifted from Jamnagar to Bhubaneswar in an Indian Air Force (IAF) plane, had evacuated a whole bunch of individuals at Dholera, Dholka and Mahuva in Gujarat throughout Cyclone Tauktae.

    Notably, NDRF’s highest ever deployment of groups in Odisha and West Bengal to deal with a cyclone scenario has been on this yr.

    “So far, this is the highest ever deputation of NDRF teams in a cyclonic situation in Odisha and West Bengal. In Odisha, the previous record of 50 teams was during extremely severe cyclone Fani in 2019 and 30 odd teams in West Bengal during super cyclone Amphan last year,” mentioned DG SN Pradhan.

    To deal with any exigency arising out of very extreme cyclone Yaas, NDRF has deployed 52 groups in Odisha and 45 groups in West Bengal.

    “All this has happened as an extra measure of precaution and preparation because the Centre and the State Governments on the basis of the lessons from the cyclones in the past, including Tauktae, are very focused on minimizing damage to life and property and are targeting zero casualty,” mentioned Pradhan.

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  • Odisha household loses two members in every week, 4 extra contaminated

    By Express News Service
    JAGATSINGHPUR: In a interval of seven days, a household of Jagatsinghpur noticed its world turning the other way up with two of its members succumbing to the lethal coronavirus and 4 extra testing constructive.The contaminated members of the family – two girls and two minors – at the moment are in residence isolation, unsure of what the long run holds for them.

    The 79-year-old Chaturbhuja Barik died of Covid-19 on Tuesday, precisely every week after his 40-year-old contaminated son Deepak handed away. Chaturbhuja’s spouse, his daughter-in-law, eight-year-old granddaughter and six-year-year grandson are constructive and underneath remedy of their residence.

    Deepak, an area businessman, had are available in contact with a shopkeeper for storing grains and cattle feed within the latter’s home in mid-April. While the shopkeeper was discovered Covid constructive, Deepak too developed fever, chest ache and examined constructive on April 23. Although he was in residence isolation, his situation deteriorated and he needed to be shifted to the isolation ward of district headquarters hospital the place he succumbed on April 27.  

    Hearing about his son’s demise, Deepak’s father who was additionally constructive, complained of respiratory points and was shifted to the Covid hospital of SCB Medical College and Hospital (SCB MCH) on April 28. He too handed away on Tuesday and the physique was cremated in Cuttack by the native Municipal Corporation.

    Sarpanch of Tiruna panchayat Nirupama Das mentioned all the mandatory remedy is being supplied to the remaining 4 members within the household who’re contaminated.  “There are 20 other villagers here who have been found Covid positive. I have urged the Naugaon BDO to declare the village as a containment zone”, she mentioned.

  • Children stroll to close by village in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur for college solely to face caste bias

    By Express News Service
    JAGATSINGHPUR: Located in Jagatsinghpur city, kids of a tribal hamlet in Markandpur are disadvantaged of training with not even an anganwadi centre to impart primary training. With no possibility, the youngsters stroll a kilometre to a faculty in a close-by village. 

    The residents have been demanding the district administration for opening a college or an anganwadi centre since a very long time however to no avail. Inhabited by 750 folks, the hamlet has round 60 kids beneath the age of 5. But owing to absence of an anganwadi centre, the youngsters cross a street and the Machgaon canal to check at a facility in Punaga village, round one km away. 

    The residents nonetheless are cautious of sending their kids to a different village the place they’re allegedly being discriminated in opposition to on the idea of their caste. Besides, water facility to the hamlet has additionally not been supplied.

    Neither the locality has correct drainage neither is any growth exercise being carried on the market. Most of the residents of the non-descript locality are additionally but to get land pattas (file of rights). President of Dalit Bikash Parishad, Sankar Das, in a writ petition filed with the Orissa High Court in November 2019, had sought land pattas for the residents.

    The courtroom had directed the district administration to offer pattas to 35 households however the order has not been executed but.  Ganesh Hansda, a neighborhood stated the authorities involved had been apprised of the problems pertaining to the hamlet however nothing has occurred as but.

  • Brothers separated in childhood meet after 50 years in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur

    By Express News Service
    JAGATSINGHPUR: In a plot straight out of a Bollywood potboiler, two siblings separated throughout childhood had been reunited after 50 years. Incidentally, each had been residing not very removed from one another by way of bodily distance. 

    Bijay Palluar (65) and his youthful sibling Charan (63) of Phulhar village inside Jagatsinghpur police limits had been separated after their father Ramchandra, a each day wager, died in 1969. Bijay was 12 years outdated whereas Charan was 10. With its sole member no extra, the household was left to fend for itself.

    Without informing anybody, Charan left dwelling looking for a job. He labored as a home assist on the home of an individual in Gopinathpur village of Cuttack district for 40 years. Then his employer despatched Charan to Birola village in Tangi-Choudwar block the place he labored on the home of 1 Sarat Das for 10 years. 

    Agent of a personal finance firm, throughout his go to to Birola for accumulating cash got here throughout Charan and received to know that he had left his home 50 years again. Bijay was knowledgeable about his brother following which he left for Birola together with former panchayat samiti member Suryanarayan Pallur and others from his village. They met Charan at Das’ home on Sunday and introduced him dwelling.   

    The reunion moved the residents of Phulhar and Biral to tears. They held discussions and made a pact to take care of the siblings. Bijay stated he’ll maintain his brother who’s single. “I did not even know my younger brother was alive. I am glad we met him after so many years,” he stated with a smile on his face. 

  • ‘Jagatsinghpur police assist desks not practical’

    By Express News Service
    JAGATSINGHPUR: Days after the State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (OSCPCR) launched a state-wide marketing campaign to achieve out to kids put up pandemic, a staff of the district baby welfare committee (CWC) has detected anomalies in functioning of Mahila and Sishu desks at police stations in Jagatsinghpur district. 

    Visiting Balikuda and Naugaon blocks on Friday, the CWC staff led by chairperson Bisesweri Mohanty discovered that the devoted assist desks for girls and kids on the police stations aren’t operational. The district has 13 police stations and the federal government has mandated Mahila and Sishu desk in all 537 police stations throughout the State to facilitate an built-in strategy in direction of crimes in opposition to ladies and kids. Each police station ought to have the assistance desk the place a girl officer is on obligation around the clock.  

    In Naugaon police station, the Mahila and Sishu helpdesk has no girl police officer and three victims are awaiting compensation underneath  Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. Likewise at Balikuda police station, there was no police personnel aside from a house guard on the staff’s arrival. Even the diary cost officer (DCO) was absent.

    While there was a helpdesk for girls and kids, it was being managed by a male assistant sub inspector (ASI) as the feminine police officer in-charge was on maternity go away. But the ASI too was absent as he had been given further cost of one other police outpost, stated sources. Mohanty stated the staff has scheduled go to to all of the police stations to judge functioning of Mahila and Sishu desks underneath Sishu Sampark Yatra marketing campaign.

    “SP Prakash R and other officials were informed about our visit. We have sent a letter to the SP regarding irregularities in the functioning of the Mahila Sishu desks  and urged to activate those. Other police stations will be reviewed on January 27 and  February 3,” she added.  Meanwhile, Jagatsinghpur SDPO Priya Ranjan Satpathy admitted that there is no such thing as a girl police officer in Naugaon police station and steps are being taken to deploy one on the earliest. As regards Balikuda police station, the IIC was on go away when the CWC staff arrived, the SDPO stated.