Forced to migrate due to poverty and recurrent droughts, and with no better life in faraway brick kilns, farmers in western Odisha have turned to watermelon cultivation, reaping rich benefits.
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Odisha and its border disputes: Details
Odisha has border disputes with its four neighbouring states – Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh – over 96 villages. The issue was highlighted by Odisha Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Maheswar Mohanty, in a written reply to a question in the state assembly from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member Dilip Ray on Monday […]
Tribunals alone can’t save our dying rivers: Experts
Even as the dispute between the states of Odisha and Chhattisgarh over Mahanadi river water is becoming rife and has snowballed into a major fight between the governments as well as political parties, a group of civil society organisations, river and water experts, academicians from across the country and community members from the basin have […]
Declining catch forces Chilika fishers to become migrant laborers
It was forenoon. In Mangalajodi village, the familiar sight of women sitting in their verandahs and mending fishing nets was missing. The change in the landscape was apparent since many of the villagers have quit fishing, their traditional occupation. Mangalajodi, with a 5,000-odd population, is on the banks of Chilika, the brackish water lagoon on […]