ENACT EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE IMMEDIATELY: ACTIVISTS

OrissaMatters Bureau
New Delhi:

A banner showing signatures of people from rural India demanding employment guarantee. The lines read: “Give work to everyone, give proper wage to every work.” Photo: Panini Anand
Even as Delhi begins to cool down after the arrival of monsoon, the UPA government doesn�t seem to have any reprieve from heat wave. It is [...]

STATE GOVERNMENT KILLS THE SPIRIT OF ELECTRICITY ACT, 2003

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Government of Orissa has almost killed the spirit of Electricity Act 2003 and, that too, willfully. This is notwithstanding giving retrospective effect to the Orissa Electricity Reforms (Transfer of Transmission and Related activities) Scheme, 2005, shown to have been formulated for implementation of the Act.
Under the Scheme, the Grid Corporation of Orissa (GRIDCO) [...]

IF THE REPORT IS RIGHT, THE PRESIDENT IS WRONG.

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Our democracy has been transformed into a plutocracy due to lack of informed participation. The top officials in the Union as well as the State Governments and the low caliber politicians in high positions have ruined our motherland. Ninety nine per cent of our population, at the minimum, is being exploited by opportunists; [...]

HYDRO-ELECTRICITY MISMANAGED INTO INERTNESS

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Before becoming Orissas Energy Minister, S.N.Patro was a newspaper hawker by profession. After becoming the Minister, he poses to be an expert in electricity. And, so expertly he has managed his portfolio that Hydropower generation in Orissa is going to stop soon, even as thermal power generation has been halted at Talcher [...]

WHERE IS THE HUMANE FACE?

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Nothing better could have been said when Mr. Bipin Bihari Mishra, taking over charge of Orissa Police as its Director General last year, said that crime is to be curbed; but the police mind-set should be so set that the people feel secured.
We had highlighted his version, as, to us, he had spotted [...]

SUN SENDS KILLER RAYS: DEATH EXCEEDS 300 IN ORISSA

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Killing rays of the Sun extinguished at least 300 human lives in Orissa by June 15, 05 in the current summer. As many as 40 persons have reportedly died within last 50 hours even as 128 sunstroke persons are admitted in hospitals all over the state. The entire population is under the syndrome [...]

SCORCHING SUN HORRIFIES STATE TO CLOSE DOWN OFFICES

OM Bureau
For the first time in Orissa, executive offices are closed to avoid heat wave. Officially 55 persons have died, but unofficially the scorching sun has taken a toll of 256 human lives.
June 14 is a Tuesday in Orissa. It is a working day. But no office is working. Horrified by the unprecedented wave of [...]

WHERE HAVE THE BOYS GONE?

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
In Orissa, the top twenty positions in this years higher secondary examination in Arts stream have gone only to the girl students. We congratulate them and wish them success as they desire in life.
But where have the boys gone? Ever since the State is seen as a stooge of private industry, we have [...]

MASS MIND LAUNCHED

The NEWS Syndicate enters into the social services sector.
OM Bureau
Bhubaneswar:
Orissas premier news organization, The NEWS Syndicate ratified in its extraordinary General Body meeting a resolution adopted by the preceding G.B. for launching a new branch under the title MASS MIND, which would work in the social sector. Amongst other avowed programs, it would work for [...]

A GOVERNMENT OF MISGOVERNANCE: SHOULD IT BE?

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Highlanders of Orissa, particularly in the tribal belt, may soon see misgovernance in another ugly form hitting them hard.
It was a matter to cherish for people of Orissa in general and the highlanders in particular when the Banda community dwelling in deep forests floated its first batch of High School graduates last month. [...]