Nimapara sarpanch quits BJP on Mahanadi issue
Nimapara: Denua gram panchayat sarpanch Pabitra Mohapatra of the Nimapara area resigned from the BJP on the Mahanadi issue. He told reporters that the BJP-led Central Government has taken an unacceptable stand on the issue from the point of view of Odisha’s interest as it has been supporting the BJP-ruled Chhattisgarh Government in this context. Mohapatra is likely to join the BJD soon. Along with him, five ward members also quit the BJP on the day.
BJD Mahanadi panel to visit Nimapara on May 23
Nimapara: The Nimapara BJD unit on Sunday held a Press meet in the presence of local party MlA Samir Ranjan Dash, NAC Chairman Sanatan Pradhan, block BJD working president Ashok Sahoo, NAC party president Jibanananda Mohapatra. MlA Dash informed that the BJD committee on the Mahanadi issue under the leadership of MP Prasanna Acharya would visit Nimapara on May 23. Meetings would be held in the Nimapara constituency besides a mass meeting at the Purneswar temple of Nimapara to explain people how the BJP-led Central Government is going against Odisha on the Mahanadi issue.
Raids conducted at 4 Nimapara sawmills
Nimapara: Raids were conducted by forest officials at as many as four sawmills at Tulasipur of Nimapara block on Sunday. The sawmills are of Kesab Sahu, Shyamsundar Sahu, Manmohan Sahu and Subash Sahu. Machineries worth about Rs 10 lakh were destroyed by using gas cutters and timber worth lakhs of rupees were seized.
Female jumbo carcass found in NSpur jungle
Athagarh: A carcass of a five-year-old female elephant was found in the Devbhuin Reserve Forest under the Narasinghpur East Range on Saturday. Forest officials getting information that the carcass was lying near Naijhar went to the spot and seized it. After autopsy of the carcass, it was buried. The cause of the death of the pachyderm was yet to be ascertained and can be known after the viscera report comes, said Range Officer Aviram Jena.
Free eye checkup camp held at Jeypore
Jeypore: The Social Environmental and Educational Welfare Association (SEEWA) together with the Shankar Foundation, Visakhapatnam organised a free eye checkup camp here on Sunday. About 200 persons were examined and provided with free medicines. Nearly half of the patients were found having cataract and they were assured for treatment at the Shankar Foundation on very nominal fees. Sunita Majhi, a local, said, “Such camps are really needed for people like us as we are unable to visit doctors as they are charging high and there is no proper facility at the government medicals.”