SEED SCANDAL: THE SPEAKER HAD TO ISSUE A DIRECTION

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

The administrative approach to agriculture is so agonizing that the ruling alliance heavyweight Pradeep Maharathi could not control his aggrieved mind and thought it prudent to use todays zero hour to vomit his allegations against non-supply of seeds to the cultivators. His aghast co-sitters in the treasury benches corroborated Maharathi on the basis [...]

ASSEMBLY MUST ENSURE THAT NO-GOVERNANCE IS NOT TENABLE

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Orissa Legislative Assembly was shocked over a situation of no-governance in the State when Law Minister Biswabhusan Harichandan confessed in the House today that the report of the Judicial Commission of Enquiry held over death of six persons and maiming of many in the Temple of Sri Jagannath during Biju Patnaiks chiefministersip on [...]

IS IT THE ANSWER? THE SPEAKER SHOULD ANSWER

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
The Orissa Legislative Assembly commenced its winter session on 13 November 2006 with an important agenda to adopt the supplementary budget worth Rs3654 Cr.
How would the debates on the supplementary budget proceed when the State Government has failed to proceed in expected speed to utilize the funds at its disposal is a matter [...]

HASSLES OVER BHASHAKOSHA: HIGH COURT SHOULD INTEREVENE

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
An Order of the Cuttack District Judge has put a stymie on the way of the Oriya Nation to get back its most unique and sought after treasure, the Purnachandra Ordia Bhashakosha, the incomparable encyclopedic lexicon of Oriya language comprising 1,85,000 words with multi-lingual synonyms and explanatory notes and word history compiled by [...]

Press accreditation fracas in Orissa

Editor’s Note: We are reproducing below a brilliant and timely critique by journalist Elisa Patnaik, on the amended accreditation rules affecting journalists in Orissa. The article was originally published in the South Asian Media Watch Website The Hoot. TheHoot.org is run by The Media Foundation.
Additional references regarding this matter, including the interview [...]

COOPERATIVE INSTITUTES MENACED BY THE BJP MUSCLE

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Orissa Government has placed a sum of Rs.123 Cr. on 09 November 06 towards its share in a package of Rs.1000 Cr. for rejuvenation of cooperative institutions gone astray.
Whose money is it?
Is it Navin Patnaik�s father�s money or Surama Padhi�s mother�s money or Prafulla Ghadei�s personal money? Why these fellows have been squandering [...]

TAKE ACTION AND SAVE SRI JAGANNATH FROM SHOWY RITUALS

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
A showy ritual has taken a toll of four lives in the Temple of Sri Jagannath at Puri when 60 others including 25 in serious conditions are injured while trying to witness the Alati (waving of light before the image of Sri Jagannath) at 6.40 in the morning of November 4.
As usual, palm [...]

A SILENT BUT SPEAKING VERDICT AGAINST NAVIN MISRULE AND PLUTOCRACY

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
I am happy that my absence precipitated by circumstances beyond my control ends so happily.
People of the reserved constituency of Talsara in Sundergarh district, mostly illiterate and tribal, have heralded the end of the beginning of Navin misrule in the State by rejecting the candidate of the ruling alliance in the by-election to [...]