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Govt issues guidelines for issuance of caste certificates

April 10, 2021 By Sneha Santuka Leave a Comment

Bhubaneswar, April 10 (LocalWire): The state government has set down guidelines for the issuance of caste, income and residence certificates for the students of Class 10, in a bid to streamline the process and make it hassle-free.

The Revenue Inspector of the locality would visit each school before the summer vacation and hand out application forms to the students in presence of the Headmaster and class teacher.

The students will bring the form along with the requisite documents after the summer vacation to the school and it will be signed by the headmaster after due diligence.

The Revenue Inspector will then collect all the forms and ensure their online filing through the e-District portal. The certificates would then be issued by the Tahsildar/Additional Tahsildar.

The certificates will be distributed to the children by the RI in presence of the headmaster and class teacher, not later than August 31.

The RI shall submit the enquiry/verification report to the Tahsildar wherever required.

Sub Collectors would monitor the programme on a weekly basis.

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Filed Under: English Tagged With: Odisha

Odisha govt issues revised guidelines for issuance of caste certificates

April 6, 2021 By LocalWire Leave a Comment

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has issued revised guidelines for issuance of miscellaneous and caste certificates.

The government has taken the decision to facilitate expeditious issuance of various certificates to citizens and bring transformational changes in the system.

As per the revised guidelines issued by state revenue secretary Bishnupada Sethi, the resident, asset and income certificates will now be issued in 10 days after the application is received at the tehsil offices.

Presently, the certificates are issued within 15 days.

Similarly, the Scheduled Tribe, Scheduled Caste, SEBC and OBC certificates will be issued within 15 days. Presently, it takes 30 days for issuance of caste certificates.

However, solvency and legal heir and guardianship certificates will be continued to be issued within 30 days of receiving the applications.

Legal heir certificate shall be issued for all purposes so that citizens will not be required to apply more than once for different purposes, said Sethi.

The revised guidelines will come into force immediately.

Notably, the state government in December, 2019 had launched the e-certificate project under the 5T model of governance that aimed to help citizens to avail the certificates online without visiting the tehsil office or common service centres.

People can apply for these certificates from anywhere while it will be given based on self-certification and documents submitted by the applicants.

Filed Under: English Tagged With: Bhubaneswar, Odisha

Old Town’s haunted Dak Bungalow

April 6, 2021 By Anil Dhir Leave a Comment

Bhubaneswar, April 6 Besides the many temples and tanks, Bhubaneswar’s Old Town also has a few forgotten colonial vestiges which are wallowing in neglect.

The Old Dak Bungalow at one end of the Mahatab Road is one such abandoned monument which needs immediate conservation.

The Dak Bungalow has an interesting history. It was built sometime in the 1850s for the convenience of British officers and was the staging point for mail runners of the Imperial Mail Service.

It also served as a makeshift court house for proceedings held by the British officials.

The many properties in the Old Town that were taken up by the gentry of Bengal under the draconian Sunset Law were auctioned at this place.

It was also used by the surveyors of the Great Indian Trigonometrical Survey held from 1840-1870.

It was converted into the Settlement office and remained as the R.I office for years before a new adjoining building was made.

The Bengal Nagpur Railways officials too camped here when the railway was being laid.

It is just 500 metres from the railway line to Puri.

The modest two roomed bungalow was set in thickly wooded plot with a well and two out houses for the Khansama and Chowkidar.

The large walled compound was dotted with trees, many fruit bearing and others for shade. Just a single tamarind tree remains.

The Dak Bungalow was renovated during the visit of Lord Curzon in 1899; it was from here that he went to the Curzon Tower to view the Lingaraj Temple.

The place has been known as the Dakabangala Chhak since ages.

Old timers tell of the times when leopards would come and rest in the verandah.

Today, the building that has been witness to so much history and has survived the vicissitudes of time lies neglected.

Locals say that the place is haunted, with its share of strange paranormal happenings.

Prafulla Swain, who runs a small hotel adjacent to the bungalow, swears that he has seen a ghostly figure of a woman and child near the old well on half a dozen occasions.

Another favourite of the locals is a ghostly spirit who makes it’s way from the bungalow during full moon nights, walks up to the old tamarind tree before climbing it and disappearing in the gnarled branches.

Some old timers recollect that there were two graves of Englishmen inside the compound, however no trace of them can be found.

A team from INTACH had inspected the place two years ago and found it to be structurally intact.

The thick walls and the wooden roof beams are undamaged; the building can be easily restored with some conservation efforts.

Even the out houses and the horse stable are in a restorable condition. Built of thick laterite stone blocks and chunsurkhi, the walls have little damage except for the peeling plaster.

Dr. Ananta Mohapatro, the film and theatre aficionado recollects the time he spent during his childhood at the bungalow.

The family would travel from Cuttack by train and take a bullock cart from the Old Station to reach the Bungalow. He remembers the many summers that his family spent in the thickly wooded complex and the trips made to Bindusagar and the different temples.

I have found accounts of Britishers who stayed here for months, convalescing from diseases like malaria and tuberculosis.

Many physicians of Calcutta would recommend patients to go to Bhubaneswar and imbibe the therapeutic mineral waters of the well inside the Kedar Gouri temple complex.

It was believed that the water had curative and rejuvenating properties.

A two storied sanatorium had been made near the present day Ravi Talkies, which too catered to the convalescing Britishers.

Unfortunately it was demolished ten years ago and a block of flats has come up at the place.

According to Dr. Biswajit Mohanty of Intach, the place is ideal for making a site museum and interpretation centre of the various artifacts of the Old Town.

An interpretation centre that had been made outside the main entry of the Lingaraj temple was demolished in the recent beautification drive.

In fact, the building, for which Rs 4 crores had been spent, was demolished even before it was inaugurated.

Filed Under: English Tagged With: Bhubaneswar, Odisha

Precautionary measures to be taken in view of rising COVID cases

April 2, 2021 By LocalWire Leave a Comment

Collectors, municipal Commissioners and health officials of the state have been issued directions to take precautionary measures in view of the rising number of COVID-19 cases.

Officials have been instructed to keep the required numbers of beds with oxygen facilities ready, isolation beds in ICU, HDU, Dialysis, Labour Room etc and private hospitals should be in all readiness for emergency usage.

They have been asked to maintain adequate stock of medicine like Flavipiravir, Remdisivir etc at district level.

Vaccination of comorbid categories is to be stepped up on a war footing.

Filed Under: English Tagged With: Bhubaneswar, Odisha

Vice President releases book My Mother My Hero

April 2, 2021 By LocalWire Leave a Comment

“We should not forget Mother, Motherland and our Mother tongue,” said Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu, Vice President of India during the release of the book ‘My Mother – My Hero’ at Rajbhawan on 2nd April 2021.

The book ‘My Mother – My Hero’ on an ideal mother has been written by eminent educationist and social worker Dr. Achyuta Samanta.

“We read biographies of entrepreneurs, explorers and scientists, but writing the biography of a mother is something different and unique. Writing a biography on mother is very inspiring,” the Vice President stated.

Gracing the Book Release ceremony, Prof. Ganeshi Lal, Governor of Odisha said, we should not only serve humanity but worship humanity also.

“At such an early stage, Dr. Samanta has written such an important book. I remember Thakkar Bapa when I see Achyuta Samanta,” he added.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Samanta said, he has been emphasizing women empowerment as he has felt women’s power since his childhood.

“Women’s power helps in the holistic development of a nation and society. If importance is given to women empowerment, the nation and society can develop,” he stated.

Filed Under: English Tagged With: Bhubaneswar, Odisha

Place where Gandhi bathed during padayatra to be turned into museum

April 1, 2021 By Ashis Senapati Leave a Comment

Kendrapara, April 1 (LocalWire): The place where Mahatma Gandhi took bath in 1934 during his historic Padayatra in Kendrapara district is to be turned into a museum by the government.

The Mahatma took a bath while sitting on a stone on 30th May 1934 at Dhumat village during his famous Padayatra.

“We decided to convert the riverside place at Dhumat village near the river Brahmani into a museum 87 years after Mahatma Gandhi’s visit to Kendrapada to organize people against untouchability.

It would remind people of the significance of the 1934 Padayatra and highlight the Mahatma’s role in the freedom struggle.

The stone on Gandhiji’s bath will be preserved in the museum,” said Sashibhusan Behera, the former minister and MLA of Kendrapara.

A khadi cloth selling center, a photo gallery, a library and a conference hall will be opened in the proposed Gandhi museum.

Gandhi used tables, chairs and other furniture during his visit to Dhumat.

The authorities will preserve all the items in the museum, said Behera.

“The Padayatra by Gandhiji was one of the important events in the country’s freedom struggle.

Gandhi allowed Dalits to enter temples in some villages during his long walk in Odisha in 1934. Gandhi also addressed a public meeting at Dhumat on 30th May 1934,” said Nanda Kishor Parida the former principal of Kendrapara college.

Filed Under: English Tagged With: Kendrapara, Odisha

BMC launches clothes-donation initiative on Utkal Dibas

April 1, 2021 By Sneha Santuka Leave a Comment

The initiative named Wheel of Kindness will allow citizens to donate old clothes, which will then be washed, pressed and then packed before being distributed among slum dwellers.

Interested people can donate their clothes at BMC main office and at zonal offices or they can give a call on mobile number +91 7978242201 for collection of clothes from their doorstep.

The BMC is also planning to keep drop boxes for clothes at places like shopping malls and apartments etc. in the coming days.

A specially designed vehicle named ‘Kindness on Wheels’ will distribute clothes among the people living in slums.

The bus has separate racks with clothes for kids, women and men.

The bus will move on the streets near different slums or labour markets across the city in two shifts – from 9 AM to 2 PM and then from 4 PM to 9 PM on every working day. There will be no cloth distribution on Sunday.

NGO Vikash has been engaged for the collection, washing and distribution of clothes.

The NGO has been given the task of collecting at least 17, 500 pieces of clothes every month.

The BMC has set up a facility named ‘The Kindness Hub’, a central washing, packaging and inventory management centre (CWPIMC) on the premises of Old AG Colony UP School (which is closed now) in Madhusudan Nagar.

The clothes collected from the donors will be washed, sorted and packed for their distribution at CWPIMC.

Several classrooms of the school have been renovated and designed for the purpose.

There are two washing rooms, three rooms for display and store, one room each for office and cloth collection. Around 10 people will be deployed daily to manage the entire activity starting from collection to distribution.

The Kindness Hub accepts clothes of persons of all ages —from babies to elderly people — apart from bed sheets, towels, blankets and other such necessities.

The BMC will spend around Rs 1.60 lakh every month as part its running and maintenance cost of the initiative.

Filed Under: English Tagged With: Odisha

Pilot online land identification system launched in Odisha

March 25, 2021 By Sneha Santuka Leave a Comment

The Unique Land Parcel Identification Number (ULPIN) pilot project was launched in Odisha yesterday, by the state and central government.

The 14 digit number has ownership details of the plot besides its size and longitudinal and latitudinal attributes up to Tahsil level and beyond.

ULPIN has been rolled out in three villages – Barkhandia and Kandeijori of Deogarh Tahasil and Barakhol of Riamal Tahasil, all in Deogarh district, on a pilot basis.

A revolutionary change, ULPIN would be a single and authoritative source of truth and information for any parcel of land or property which can be used by any organization consuming land-related information.

The single source of truth can authenticate the ownership and which in turn can end the dubious ownership of land.

Through this, Government Lands can be easily identified and protection of Government land from shabby land transactions will be seamless. Standardization at data and application-level will bring effective integration of various stakeholders and inter-operability across Governments.

Data analytics will be easier and this is in compliance to international standards like Standard Electronic Commerce Code Management Association.

ULPIN will provide an open, transparent and efficient process for the development and maintenance of land records.

All issues related to the collection of taxes and ownership of the plot can be traced using one single number.

Land is often used as collateral for loans taken by farmers and unclear land deals inhibit their capacity to do so. ULPIN can be implemented in both cases, with and without Geo-referencing though primarily, it works with Geo-referencing.

Filed Under: English Tagged With: Deogarh, Odisha

Baibhav Karan receives Dr. B Panda gold medal

March 24, 2021 By LocalWire Leave a Comment

Bhubaneswar, March 24 (LocalWire): At the recently concluded 18th Annual Convocation of NIT Rourkela, Sri Baibhav Karan was awarded the ‘Dr. Bansidhar Panda Gold Medal (Best Graduate of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering)’ instituted by IMFA in memory of its Founder.

Dr. Panda had chaired the Board of Governors of NIT Rourkela.

Mr. Subhrakant Panda, Managing Director, conveyed the heartiest congratulations to Mr. Karan on behalf of the entire IMFA family.

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Filed Under: Business, English Tagged With: Bhubaneswar, Odisha

Disease killing buffaloes triggers panic in Kendrapara

March 24, 2021 By Ashis Senapati Leave a Comment

Kendrapara, March 24 (LocalWire): The theileriosis disease of buffaloes recently struck riverside villages under Aul block in Kendrapara district, killing 25 buffaloes within a week.

This has triggered panic among people of Ranipokhari, Balakati, Nagapada and other villages, as the buffaloes live in close contact with humans.

“People have been instructed not to handle the dead buffaloes without gloves, and dig deep holes to bury the dead bodies to contain further spread of the disease.

The disease is as of yet confined to some villages under Aul block, said Dr. Ashis Satapathy, the Sub-Divisional Veterinary Officer of Kendrapara.

“Authorities did not move in time to check the disease when it first surfaced in the first week of March. Only after it spread to other villages did they devise a plan of action,” alleged Brajasundar Barik of Ranipokhari village, who lost five buffaloes to the disease in 4 days.

Locals who used to earn a livelihood by selling milk, cheese and curd sourced from buffaloes are in a state of panic after the sudden death of large numbers of buffaloes.

“We have formed rapid response teams comprising livestock inspectors, village gomitras and veterinary officers in the district to check the spread of the disease,” said Satapathy.

“The disease is primarily transmitted by ticks as it is caused by a blood-borne parasite. All people have been requested to inform the administration on the death of any buffalo,” he added.

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Filed Under: English Tagged With: Kendrapara, Odisha

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