While the ghastly killing of a woman at Bisra is still fresh in mind, the killing of another woman reportedly by her in-laws in Rambagan area under Rajgangpur Police Station on Wednesday has shocked the residents here. The police have detained the husband and parents-in-law of the deceased.
According to the reports, Priyanka Devi of Baisali in Bihar had married one Pawan Kumar in a village under Rajgangpur PS on May, 2012. Her father had given `65,000 in cash and ornaments as dowry. But after 15 days of the marriage, Priyanka’s in-laws started torturing her demanding more dowries. On December 20, in-laws abandoned Priyanka following which she went to her aunt’s house in the same locality. After a few hours, her husband reached there and apologised for the misbehaviour meted out to here by his family members. Then, he managed to take her back. Next day, Pawan and his parents allegedly poured kerosene on her and set her ablaze.
As she shouted, the house owner came to her rescue. Priyanka could manage to reach her aunt’s house. She was hospitalised at Rajgangpur before being shifted to the Ispat General Hospital (IGH). She succumbed to her injuries on Wednesday.
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Besides cattle, he said, there are two indigenous varieties of buffalos such as Chilika and Kalahandi listed as Nos. 11 and 13 in the FAO list which are also unique. “The Chilika variety is the only one that thrives on saline weeds and its curd can be preserved in room conditions for five days.” The Kalahandi variety is the best milk breeder, he added.”
Bishnupada Sethi, Dr Sanat Mishra, MK Ghosal, D Behera, N Sahoo, PK Sahu and PK Rout also spoke on bullock farming system and indigenous varieties. RN Senapati, Dr Saujendra Swain, Piyush Rout, Prakash Nayak, Sanjeev Chadha, Dr Balaram Sahu and Natabar Sarangi spoke on subjects like mainstreaming urban farming in Bhubaneswar city planning, food sovereignty and traditional varieties of rice, grass root innovations and traditional knowledge systems for monitoring organic farming and food preservation.
The last session was chaired by Jagdananda and attended by Arabind Behera, Prof Radhamohan, Sudarsan Das, Babu Ambat, DK Roy and Dr GN Indresha.
The Young Scientist Award was presented to Dr Anuj KS Parihar, Research Associate of NAIP on Carbon Finance, OUAT (Bhubaneswar). The theme of the next congress was selected as ‘Environment and Climate Change’.
The Declaration of the Odisha Environment Congress 2013 included: (1) Impact of environment on agriculture and vice versa should be given importance in policy formulation; (2) There should be appropriate balance between economic development and environment to fulfil minimum need and improve quality of life of people of the State; (3) In order to ensure food security, Odisha should adhere to an “Evergreen green revolution” adopting organic farming and indigenous knowledge; (4) Since considerable portion of the State’s population comprise youth, efforts should be made to make agriculture a profitable venture to attract more and more unemployed youth to take this as a profession; (5) Efforts should be there to promote climate-smart agriculture practices for ensuring food security through sustainable agriculture and enhanced livelihood while adopting to climate change and conserving biodiversity, natural resources, cultural resources, culinary resources and environmental services; (6) There is a need for developing certain pilot models on group approach of locally-adopted and sustainable agriculture (GAlASA) taking into consideration indigenous technology and knowledge (ITK) local genetic resources, organic manures, micro and macro climatic conditions and also environment.