Help to Cyclone affected people of Odisha

Rajkanika has seen worst cyclone, and politicians and government is busy with election. So not much relief has done at Rajkanika, Odisha.


SERVICES RENDERED BY UTKAL BIPANNA SAHAYATA SAMITI IN THE VILLAGES AFFECTED BY DEVASTATING CYCLONE IN RAJKANIKA BLOCK OF KENDRAPARA

The devastating cyclone of 31.03.2009 has caused thousands of people homeless in the Rajkanika Block of Kendrapara District. 16 peoples have been died so far and more than 500 people have been injured. Around 50 nos. of cattle have been injured and died. Thousands of people of 12 villages in 7 Panchayats have been badly affected.

As always, the volunteers of Utkal Bipanna Sahayata Samiti have rushed to the spot immediately to rescue people & give relief to the affected people. More than 150 volunteers with 2 Ambulances, doctors & paramedical staff have been engaged for different services like rescue, relief, medical aid, cleaning of roads, food materials & clothes distribution, cooked food distribution etc.

The volunteers have been rendering their selfless service day & night for the last 2 days in the affected villages Baghapada, Ganja, Jaguleipada, Sarasa, Govindapur, Taila, Seba Basti & other affected villages.

2 nos. of ambulances with paramedical staff have been engaged to give first aid to the injured people & to shift the injured people to the Rajnagar hospital & other local hospitals. Health camps have been organized in the affected places to give medical aid to the injured people.

More than 100 volunteers have been engaged to clean the roads and to help the affected families to build their houses.

Materials distributed by the volunteers of UBSS so far

i) Biscuit- 25000 Pkts.
ii) Baby food- 300 pkts.
iii) Saree- 2 Nos. of saree (for each family) to 670 families
iv) Dhoti- 2 Nos. of Dhoti (for each family) to 670 families
v) Candle
vi) Match Box
vii) Baby food packets (containing biscuit, amul, sagu & sugar)-10000 packets
Apart from above 2 nos. of centres have been opened to give cooked food at the following places

Name of the village Avg. no. of people (everyday)
i) Baghapada 1500
ii) Ganja 1000

In the coming days, more no. of cooked food centres will be opened to give service to the poor affected people which will continue for more than 3 days. Similarly other services like materials distribution, cleaning, health camp etc. will also be organized for more days.

Odishaku khaila kie?? Congress..

It is a modified version of Odia geeta E gaura. Odisha is one of poorest states in India. It is the state with higher minerals, more number of rivers, rainfalls above the national level, higher percentage of forest in land. Why is it still poor? I broadly put it on two different reason. 1) Attitude of Odiya people and 2)Attitude of central leadership towards Odisha.

Not all but most of the Odia people are happy with whatever they get. And they believe in simple living. So they are happy with whatever they have and don't aspire and dream. This has lead to laziness and dependent on luck. If people don't get their regular crop (due to flood or drought) they blame their luck and go ahead with the life. This in turn become a part and parcel of their live and they have not thought of having a better life. They have not dreamed, so having a lion share in the mines, Odisha has a low share in industrial production.

India's revenue model was designed to federated where central government collects the revenue centrally and let the Govt of India do the expenditure and state government spend it as per the donations by central government. Odisha government was not getting enough money from India government. Until a couple of years ago salary of the Odisha government staff was higher than the the annual income.

Odisha provides income to indian railway, but never gets its due. Nalco was done at the expense of odisha's mine and environment, but AP (Vizag port) gets more revenue from Nalco than Odisha.Odisha has more mines and income of state govt is heavily dependent on mine royalties. Central govt always put the royalties less than recommended. Odisha supplies the iron ore, and coal and steel plants are in neighboring states. Vizag steel plant gets steel and coal from Odisha.
Congress planned with green revolution and white revolution and Odisha was not a part of the experiment. When odisha is going through worst flood in the century Congress government is granting aid to Assam and Bihar and declaring them as national calamity. And our prime minister has no time to access the flood situation in Odisha. Whatever his deputy says,congress ensures that we don't get it. For them popularity of chief minister was a bigger concern than the problem of the people.

When odiya MPs went to meet Congress PM to discuss Odisha issue and special package, PM denied to discuss and worst, he said money does not grow in tree and can't be given to Odisha. Idiot PM, money grows in the mines of Odisha, it is in the deep forests, it is in the rivers with water and futile lands. Give us what we deserve. We don't need mercy from you.

Things have changed a little now. Currently every MP gets money to spend in his constituency and tax collection is distributed. Odisha government gets some money to plan its development. The development done in last 9 years was probable more than what congress has done in more than 50 years. Congress leadership in Odisha has been weak. There are no cabinet minister from odisha during Congress government (Barring mahtab and Biju Patnaik who did not even complete a year). And those who are minister are more loyal to Congress (Read Nehru family) than Odisha.

Is this an end to Naveen's era?

Naveen patnaik is known for his ruthlessness to his political opponents. He declared a candidate in Patkura in the last minute to throw out Bijay Mohapatra. People welcame his decision as Bijay Mahapatra was infamous as Janki Patnaik. And Naveen had aliance with BJP and there was a pro-Vajpayee wave which helped Naveen. And people thought Naveen is against corrupted leaders. Off late things have changed. Naveen has changed his tactis.

Naveen is no more anti-corruption. He has earned crores from likes of vedant and Pesco. Odisha property is like BJD property. And he has trusted Pyari Mohan and give tickets not based on images, but based on how close a leader is with Pyari Mohan.

Braj Kishore Tripathy a thorow gentleman and leader of the BJP Parliamentary party denied ticket because Pyari did not like him. Rather Pinaki Mishra who can't speak Odia well(Is that the reason behind ticket? Naveen can't speak Odia well either) and rarely visits Odisha was given ticket.

Surendranath Nayak was given ticket and from Bhubaneswar North and his candidature got changed in last minute because he has not paid his loan. Is there better way to fool public? Mr Nayak was honest that is why he had taken loan from the assembly. Have you ever heard any minister taking loan? Gosh, Mr Nayak was not defaulter; he has paid all his EMI and sincere in paying his loan. What can be the law for his disqualification?

Prasanta nanda an old film acter and ex-minister was thrown out by Naveen for his alleged role in corruption. Mr Nanda was in turn was thrown away from BJP and joined NCP. Naveen has forged alliance with NCP and will ask to vote Mr nanda and may make him a minister.

Bishnu Das who asked Odisha board to give marks to his son illegally was removed from minister, but again given ticket.

Kalindi Behera was removed from minister because of his infamous liquor death in Odisha. His son was awarded with a ticket as he enjoys the confidence of PyariMohan-Naveen duo.

Maheswar Mohanty ex-speaker again got ticket, though he was involved in some controversy. So does his enemey Debashish Samantaray who put Mr Mohanty in controversy. Both of them are now candidates of BJD.

BJD is not only a corrupted party, but went ahead with criminalization. It is the criminal's heaven. There was a rumor that infamous Sabyasachi panda (The mastermind behind Nayagarh Maoist attack) was given ticket from Nayagarh. Mr panda's parents still are in BJd and has lost couple of elections at Panchayat level.

Biranchi's murder was a high profile murder in Bhubaneswar. Raja the main culprit behind it was a BJD supporter. Crime rate has increased in Odisha since last 5 years.

Is this an end to Naveen's era? Wait and watch till the results are out.

Election Commission: Ati sarvatra Garhitam.

Ati sarvatra garhitam (too much is always bad). It applies for the EC India. I am proud to be Indian. I am proud of democracy in India. I am proud of neutral EC and the way election is conducted in India. However EC has crossed limit and now trying to show their power at lots of places where things were better without their intervention.

Whenever there is an election, government stops all the development work as it may tamper the voters' mindsets. There are lots of election (panchayat, state, centre, municipality) etc. So the government stops its development program for atleasst 5% of the time (6 months in 5 year). So lots of wastage of money and low return on Investment.

Recently EC has asked Odisha government not to celebrate Utkal Dibas. What does they know about it? Will they dare to stop independence day celebration for election? Why do they stop celebrating Utkal divas? Is it not too much of control? How do they know what is close to us and what is not?

In the recent Varun gandhi controversy EC has asked BJP not to file varun gandhi. How can Ec reccomend whom to file and whom not?

Mosquitoes in Katak are dangerous and need to be treated carefully. So Katak Municipal corporation needs to clean the drains and kill the mosquitoes in Summer before it is too late (rainy season). EC has asked not to do any work in Katak.

I understand EC needs to ensure impartial election and stop the program which may alter the outcome. But why do anybody care about an election if election ensures her problem remains unsolved. EC needs to act in a more inclusive approach and need to emphasize with public.

Value of life

What is the most important loss of the current Mumbai Bomb blast?Is it the death of 200 people, the modus of operandi or the loss of 500 billion? To me, it is the loss of 200 people. Any tragedy which Causes loss of more people will be bigger tragedy than this.

But I seem to be in minority. Stampedes at temple kill almost 100s Of people and media and others forget about it in 2-3 days. Recent Bihar flood killed 1000s of people and more than 20 million people are affected. Odisha flood have similar devastation effect. More farmers suicide in Andhrapradesh/Maharastra because they are unable to repay the loan. There are more deaths in tribal areas in Odisha because of Malaria. Do we care about the same?

As I am from Odisha, let me put some facts from Odisha. 2008 flood was of greater magnitude than pat couple of years and took more than 1000s lives. 20 Million People were affected by the flood. Though not In this magnitude, flood is a regular phenomenon in Odisha. I have not heard any year when there were no death because of flood. And no government tried to eradicate the same. Let us discuss the action taken by the state and central government. State government is busy in blaming central government. It is unable to distribute the little help it gets from others. There are tones of food grains and other relief material laying down in national highways of Odisha. What is the central government doing? Being opposite party to the ruling state government, it ensures that people of Odisha does not get the basic amenities, which will cause anti incumbency and hence more vote for the party. Honourable prime minister declared a help of Rs 200 crores but send only 5 crores. Honourable ex-home minister said there is no such provision like declaring it as a national calamity, thus stopped international aid, where as the same government has declared Bihar flood a national calamity. There are millions of people who don’t have food and shelter.

Now let us look at the number of deaths in malaria in Odisha. It is unaccounted, as media/Government does not bother much about it. The tribal areas don’t get the basic education or medical help from state. It is either Ekal Vidyalaya from Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram
or some missionary provide medical help to the tribals. State hospitals does not reach all the people, and in the hospital, the doctor is not equipped with medicines. And one can not guarantee
that the medicine present is not duplicate or expired. So the locals live at the mercy of expire/duplicate medicine and may be god.

So there are higher number of deaths of common people and common people lack basic amenities. Why are the media/Governemnt not speaking about the common people? Is the life of a villager who stays in a tribal village of Odisha less than a millionare who has visited Taj Mumbai? I think life is life, irrespective of who the person is. But our government and media think otherwise. Life of a Mumbaikar is higher than a farmer or tribal.