‘Lectures should promote Odia language in class room’

Berhampur: A seminar on ‘The role of college teachers in promoting Odia language in class room’ was organized by Odisha State Bureau of Text Book Preparation and Production with the active cooperation of Berhampur University on Tuesday in the senate hall of the varsity campus.

Gracing the occasion as the chief guest of the function, Minister of Higher Education, sports and youth services, Badri Narayana Patra led emphasis on the topic and the soft nuances in the gap between words.

This is indeed not a conflict between Odia and English language but cooperative and promotional attempts of promoting mother tongue. “One must open the windows of the whole world for information codified in English language but that is not to say to neglect our language”, he added.

“There is no harm to explain difficult concepts of a subject in mother tongue, which can easily understand by the students”, explained the Director of Odisha State Bureau of Text Book Preparation and Production Haraprasad Parichha Patnaik in his welcome and introductory address on the occasion.

“We should not neglect English but we have to accept two languages as well. We have to overcome from the narrow mindedness on this matter as we are living in a globalized world”, said the guest of honour of the inaugural ceremony of the seminar Vice-chancellor of Berhampur University Prof Jayanta Mahapatra.

For the first time, Odisha State Bureau of Text Book Preparation and Production was organized the seminar and function in outside of its curriculum after 41 years of its history. It will move to enrich the Odia language throughout the world, informed it’s Director Haraprasad Parichha Patnaik to The Pioneer.

Among others, Odia Proffessor of Berhampur University and organizer of the seminar Deviprasanna Patnaik, Journalism Proffessor Dr Pradip Mahapatra, writer Abhiram Biswal and other intellectuals, writers were present in the occasion.

‘Mamata’ scheme starts in Ganjam

Berhampur: To control Child Mortality Rate and to give importance to the health care of the pregnant women and child care in the state, Odisha government initiated ‘Mamata’ scheme shortly by the state Women and Child Development Department in all the districts of the state.

The scheme will benefit rural women, especially those pregnant women who are working as labourers in different sectors. The scheme has kick started in Ganjam on Tuesday.

 According to the scheme, each pregnant woman above 19 years of age will be covered under the scheme for first 2 live births. The eligible pregnant women of the state will be provided financial assistance of Rs. 5000/- in four separate installments for having additional nutrition and care for the pregnant mothers and the children.

To get the assistance fund, the pregnant women will have to register their name in a nearest Anganwadi center within six months of the pregnancy.  They will get financial assistance within from 6 months of their pregnancy to 9 months of their child. Women & Child Development department will issue specific guidelines and required forms for circulation among Anganwadis and pregnant women. The Anganwadi Workers will report the list of eligible women in the end of every month to the C.D.P.O. through Supervisor. After getting the list of the beneficiaries from the Anganwadi workers, the assistance amount will be provided to bank account of beneficiary directly in ‘Account Pay’ system.

According to the scheme, first installment of Rs 1500 will be provided after 6 months of pregnancy, Second installment of Rs 1500 after 3 months of Birth of the baby, third installment of Rs 1000 after 6 months of the baby’s birth and the fourth and the last installment of Rs 1000 will be provided after 9 months of the birth.

District Welfare Extension Officer Sabita Beura supplemented that this scheme has been started in all the Anganwadi centers of the district which will help the mothers and children of the poor families of the district.

Child labour survey to be started in Ganjam

Berhampur: A meeting on Child Labour Survey in Ganjam held in the city to survey the child labour population and its status in the district on Sunday here. The NGOs of different blocks of Ganjam; those are selected for the survey, Deputy Director of State Labour Institution (SLI) Sambit Patnaik and District Labour Officer were attended the meeting.

In the meeting, the officials were discussed at length about the scope, field work, guidelines and necessary things to be followed at the time of survey and so on. Project Director of National Child Labour Project (NCLP), Ganjam district and Sub-collector Ajit Mishra directed the NGOs to submit the survey report on 27^th of this month.

Some NGOs told that it is a herculean task to finish the survey within the time frame, but anyway they will finish the job. “NGOs are reluctant to do this job due to insufficient fund, which is provided by NCLP. It will provide Rs 250 as token TA to each Panchayat for the survey, which is not enough”, said the Secretary of an NGO Kamadhenu Seba Samiti of Ganjam block.

Some NGOs have requested for authorization letter from the District Magistrate to run the survey in their respective blocks. This authorization letter from the district administration will save them from embarrassing situations in the field. While the administration agreed to give that before the survey starts.

NCLP may establish new child labour schools in the district as the three year duration of the previous schools are going to complete. 7 schools were closed out of 32, while the other 25 schools will be closed.

  

       

Media XI loses to District administration XI in a friendly cricket match

Berhampur: You may call it as a fashion or to build good relation, but it was very amazing to see the friendly cricket match between Media eleven and District Administration eleven of Ganjam district on Saturday. The match was played in the Berhampur stadium, where Media eleven lost the friendly cricket T-20 match to District Administration eleven.

The media persons of different media houses were taken part in the match and encouraged their fellows to do better in the match while the senior bureaucrats and officials of Ganjam district were taken part in the match to give weight to cheer up their fellow officers in the T20 match. Media eleven led by Reporter of a city based cable TV channel UTV, Sudeep Sahu and District Administration eleven led by Sub-collector of Berhampur Ajit Mishra met in the stadium at 9 am. 

Media XI won the toss and chose fielding first. District Administration XI ended up the innings in 206 by 6 wickets while Media eleven chased the bureaucrats and ended the innings in 201 runs in 20 over.

‘Quality Journalism is the need of hour’

Berhampur:  “RTI act is an instrument to know the information about the developmental works by the Government. If journalists can create awareness among the common people in the grass root level to check corruption by using RTI act, then it will be a good effort by the journalists for the society” said former Agriculture Minister of Odisha Damodar Rout in the seminar on quality journalism held in the city by the Ganjam branch of Odisha Union of Journalists (OUJ) on Saturday here in the Municipality guest house.

The seminar is inaugurated by Berhampur SP Safeen Ahmed K. While inaugurating the seminar SP, the chief guest of the inaugural function told that if you want highlight the crimes, but don’t highlight the criminals and their criminal activities.   

On this occasion, the Ganjam branch of OUJ felicitated three persons namely Nirmala Mishra from Hinjilikatu, Bibhutibhusana Mahapatra from Purusottampur and Block Chairman of Ganjam and journalist Suresh Pahan for their contribution in the field of journalism in the district.

 “This type of seminar will create confidence among the rural journalists and grass root level journalists. It can create awareness among them about the ethics and codes of journalism as most of them are not trained from any journalism schools or colleges. This type of seminar and workshops will create an atmosphere for learning the important aspects of journalism”, said the President of Ganjam branch of OUJ Prakash Panigrahy to The Pioneer.

The seminar was attended by Vice-president of National Union of Journalists (NUJ) Prasanna Mahanty, General Secretary of OUJ Kailash Swain, CPI (M) leader Ali Kishore Patnaik, Advocate Bhagaban Sahu with other journalists of the district. 

Dengue terror in Ganjam: 1 died, 14 under treatment



Sub-collector of Ganjam Dr Ajit Kumar Mishra has visited the dengue ward of MKCG medical to take the stock of the situation on Saturday



Berhampur: Like other districts of Odisha, Ganjam is also affected in Dengue fever. The affected patients in the district are on the rise. After the death of a patient on Friday morning in the dengue ward of MKCG medical, the whole matter came to the light. Fourteen other patients of different parts of the district are under treatment in the MKCG medical here.

L Ganeswar Rao of Saniabandha village under Padmapur block of Rayagada district breathed his last in the dengue ward of MKCG medical on Friday morning, who was the first victim in the disease this year died in this medical, sources said. At first he was under treatment in Gunupur of Rayagada district. When his condition worsened he referred to MKCG medical on August 31. When we contacted with the medical officials, they denied that there is no casualty in dengue yet, as they have not received the blood report.

Rush of Dengue patients in the dengue ward of MKCG medical are on the rise. There are seven dengue patients are pointed out in Kavisuryanagar block and two patients in Patrapur block of the district who are under treatment in their respective villages and health centers of the block, while 14 are under treatment in MKCG dengue ward.

Within last two days, 4 persons were admitted into the MKCG medical, from them the health condition of Ramkrushna Jena of Masihakhali village of Kukudakhandi block and Babula Choudhury of Patrapur block were in critical stage. Nine dengue patients are in the treatment in a special ward under ENT section while others are under medicine section, sources said.

Sub-collector of Ganjam Dr Ajit Kumar Mishra has visited the dengue ward of MKCG medical to take the stock of the situation on Saturday.

DSO demand quality education in school

Berhampur: Ganjam district committee of All India Democratic Students Union (DSO) set out in a rally on Saturday here demanding appointment of teachers in the vacant post of the high schools in the city and improvement of other classroom activities in the schools.

DSO demanded that there are large vacancies of teacher post in the high schools in the city. Even there is no single teacher for the important subject like math, science; English in some schools include K C high school, where former President V V Giri was the student of this school. There are no permanent Head Masters in most of the schools in the city. Due to lack of science equipments in the class, the school laboratories are in the unused state.

The members of DSO set out in a procession in the city supporting quality education in the city. They reached at the Circle Inspector’s office in the city and gave the memorandum to the CI of Schools to look into the matter.

“The education process in the high schools of city is hampered due to lack of teachers, permanent head master post and lack of science equipments in the high school science laboratories. Due to this problem, the quality of education is decreased”, said Secretary of Ganjam district committee of DSO Bhabani Shankar Mishra.