Archive for April, 2012
Kalikesh demands Pinaka rocket factory in Balangir: Orissa post
Following is a news clip from Orissa post:
Kosal Gardens: An upcoming residential complex in Jharsuguda town
It is interesting to note that huge residential complexes are named after Kosal. Following information is from http://www.essenconstructions.com/kosalgarden.html
KOSAL GARDENS is a modern complex taking care of the needs of the residents of the fastest growing industrial town in eastern India. All that you would dream in a modern township: excellent location , well laid roads, systematic drainage system, large landscaped green space, vaastu adherent design, a township meeting the needs of family like children’s park, club, gymnasium, community centre, outdoor games arena, a well designed water body inside the township and also soul space- a temple.
The proposed Xavier University’s Balangir campus gets green signal
Following is a report from the Pioneer:
Sambalpuri song market downturn: industry suffers from creativity and copyright issues
Following report is from the Sambad:
Chartered air service connectivity for Rourkela, Patna, Bhubaneswar, Kolkata, Jamshedpur and Ranchi
Following is a report from the Pioneer:
A tie-up between two firms has put Jamshedpur back on the map of air transportation with the maiden service being run to and from Kolkata.
Bangalore-based DTDS Travel and Tour Planners Private Limited joined hands with Spirit Air with the ventures first flight to Kolkata taking off on Monday at Sonari Airport. The company will also start Jamshedpur-Patna air services.
DTDS launched “per seat” air charter services to industrial cities from Kolkata where passengers can book single seats at fixed rates and fly at particular charter timings. This is the first time in India that a “per seat “, fixed cost, fixed schedule, chartered air service connectivity is offered for industrial cities like Jamshedpur and Rourkela.
“Business travellers from now can expect to travel in style and comfort of modern charter planes from Jamshedpur to Kolkata, attend work and return back the same day,” an official said.
Jamshedpur debuted on the country’s air map in 2007 with Air Deccan linking the city to the Bengal capital, but the service ended soon. Then, MDLR Kingfisher resumed connectivity in 2009, but only for a few months. On August 17, 2010, Deccan Charters hired a turboprop 19-seater aircraft with a fare of Rs 5,000, but services ended in February 2011.
“DTDS charter flight timings connect morning flights reaching Kolkata from Bangalore, Mumbai, Chennai, New Delhi so travellers to Jamshedpur and Rourkela from anywhere in India or abroad can reach destinations in the shortest time and catch connecting evening flights back home,” the official further noted.
DTDS offices are available in Kolkata, Bangalore, Rourkela and Jamshedpur.
Bharat Vasani, secretary, Singhbhum Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said that the people of the city will be immensely benefited due to the service and this would spur a renewed phase of growth. “It will give boost to industrial development of the State of Jharkhand. I also wish success to the move,” he noted.
Meanwhile, in the wake of rail traffic on Howrah-Mumbai route getting affected owing to CPI (Maoist) violent activities on tracks and the National Highway-33 that connects the city to Kolkata, being under siege of dacoits at Lodhasuli jungles in West Midnapore district of Bengal, travellers, especially businessmen who frequent to Howrah, were left in a lurch and were awaiting the resumption of air service at the earliest.
“The travel woes of executives and business class will be addressed to some extent, for we will at least have one option ready at hand to reach Howrah for business meetings and other engagements,” observed S N Thakur, industrialist and former president, Adityapur Small Industries Association (ASIA).
Following is the route map from DTDS India home:
Ultra Mega Power Plant to come up in Kalahandi
Following is a report from BS:
The site for the second Ultra Mega Power Project (UMPP) in Odisha, to come up in the western part of the state, is expected to be finalized soon.
A team of the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) will visit possible sites in Kalahandi and Bolangir districts during April 24-25 to zero in on a suitable location. The Central team is likely to be accompanied by officials of the state departments of water resources, forest, revenue as well as that of state agencies- Industrial Promotion & Investment Corporation of Odisha Ltd (Ipicol) and Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation of Odisha (Idco).
Last month, the CEA team had discussions with top state officials on selection of sites for two more UMPPs proposed in Odisha, each with capacity of 4,000 MW. One of the UMPPs would be a coastal project with Paradip and Dhamara being considered as possible locations. Union minister for power Sushilkumar Shinde said during his recent visit to the state that Odisha would get 2,000 MW from each of these two UMPPs.
Meanwhile, the bidding process has begun for the state’s first UMPP with a capacity of 4,000 MW. The project will be set up at Bhedabahal in western Odisha’s Sundergarh district. This UMPP would inject 1,300 MW to the state grid.
The Bhedabahal UMPP, entailing an investment of Rs 16,000 crore, needed 3,100 acres of land. The Orissa Integrated Power Limited, a fully owned subsidiary of Power Finance Corporation (PFC), has been named the nodal agency for implementation of UMPP in the state.
Water for this UMPP has been allocated from the Ib river and check dams and barrages would be put up on the river for this purpose. It may be noted that Meenakshi, Meenakshi-B and Dipside Meenakshi coal blocks have been alloted for the UMPP with a total reserve of 880 million tonnes. Two other subsidiaries- Sakhigopal Integrated Power Company Ltd and Ghogarpalli Integrated Power Company Ltd have also been formed by PFC for executing the other two UMPPs.
Following is a report from the Sambad:
Migration has increased by 83 per cent in KBK district
Following is a report from the Hindu:
It has increased by 83 per cent in the last three years, says study
A massive job guarantee programme in form of NREGA, government’s claimed strict monitoring of migration and employment generation within the State due to industrialisation have failed to check migration from poverty stricken KBK region to other States.
A latest study that covered 100 villagers of Kalahandi, Bolangir and Nuapada district finds migration has risen in all three districts.
The disturbing factor, which is common among villagers in all three districts, is that they are ‘forced’ to migrate.
In Kalahandi, the study covered 1,872 population of 401 migrant households. Out of which 51 per cent were men and 49 per cent were women . About 84 per cent of the educated population have been migrating while 16 per cent stayed back in the villages. About 97 per cent villagers interviewed said they were migrating due to reasons those were beyond their control – forced migration.
In Nuapada district the study covered 581 households with a total population of 2,500, out of which 1,244 were male and 1,256 were female. It was found that 88 per cent of people of the total households were migrating for livelihood.
Migration increased by 20 per cent in the villages from 2009-10 to 2011-12, the finding says.
Similarly in Balangir district, the study was carried out among 4,311 villagers in 981 households out of which 90 per cent of the population were migrants and rest 10 per cent stayed back at the villages.
According to the study, migration increased 83 per cent in last three years. From 2009-10 to 2010-11 it witnessed an increase of 37 per cent but last year the migration shot up vertically.
Aide et Action, a non-government organisation, in collaboration with International Labour Organisation and the State government had carried out a micro-level study on vulnerability and migration in 100 villages of Bolangir, Kalahandi and Nuapada to assess the aspects, processes, factors, incidence and impact of migration.
Objective
The objective of the assessment was to conduct an in-depth analysis of the distress as well as to capture the process of labour migration and suggest ways and means for reducing distress and devise strategies for smooth, safe and protected migration of the migrant labourers going particularly to Andhra Pradesh and other parts of India.
“The findings are disturbing. Almost all migrant labourers were small and marginal farmers.
Children constitute about 23 to 30 per cent of migrant labourers. NREGA did not achieve its desired goal of providing jobs to rural folks.
We found distress migration in almost all villages,” said Umi Daniel of Migration information of Resources Centre (MiRC) of Aide et Action.
Factors those contributed in migration were no work in villages, failure to repay loan and crop failure.
Very few (2 per cent) said they were migrating for better earning.
“We invariably found that people had no works in monsoon season starting from June to September. If MGNREGS could be redesigned for creating jobs during this lean period, people would not go for taking loans. And majority of migration could be checked,” said Mr. Daniel.
He said the State government had very weak registration mechanism to document how many labourers were migrating to other States.
At many places anti-migration cells were not even working.
- Almost all migrant labourers were small and marginal farmers
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The reasons for migration were no work in villages, failure to repay loans and crop failure
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