Patnaik assures aid to tribals

May 11, 2012 |

chennai

Tags:

10ODISHA-CM--IN-MSSRF.jpg.crop_display.jpg

Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday assured the tribal communities of the adivasi-dominated Koraput district in Odisha of welfare assistance and also promised to take steps to allot land for the M.S. Swaminathan Research and Foundation (MSSRF) centre in Jeypore, Odisha.

Patnaik addressed the problems of the tribal community in Koraput district through video conferencing organised by the MSSRF centre in Jeypore, Koraput, at a function at the MSSRF centre here.

The adivasis highlighted the lack of drinking water in their hamlet. Patnaik promised to direct the authorities concerned to take immediate steps to resolve the issue.

The Odisha chief minister also promised to take steps to allot an additional 2.2 acres of land to MSSRF centre in Jeypore.

Dr V. Selvam, director, coastal system research, MSSRF, cited examples from Tamil Nadu to show how lucrative aqua farming is.

“The MSSRF centre in Odisha is doing amazing work in educating the tribal community about genetics and helping them market kalajeera, a specialty rice that has both medicinal and herbal values,” he said.

Post new comment

<form action="/comment/reply/150714" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post" id="comment-form"> <div><div class="form-item" id="edit-name-wrapper"> <label for="edit-name">Your name: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="60" name="name" id="edit-name" size="30" value="Reader" class="form-text required" /> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-mail-wrapper"> <label for="edit-mail">E-Mail Address: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="64" name="mail" id="edit-mail" size="30" value="" class="form-text required" /> <div class="description">The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.</div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-comment-wrapper"> <label for="edit-comment">Comment: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <textarea cols="60" rows="15" name="comment" id="edit-comment" class="form-textarea resizable required"></textarea> </div> <fieldset class=" collapsible collapsed"><legend>Input format</legend><div class="form-item" id="edit-format-1-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-1"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-1" name="format" value="1" class="form-radio" /> Filtered HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd></li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-format-2-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-2"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-2" name="format" value="2" checked="checked" class="form-radio" /> Full HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> </fieldset> <input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" id="form-87b17451c64ca18e2c61640c4e23807d" value="form-87b17451c64ca18e2c61640c4e23807d" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" id="edit-comment-form" value="comment_form" /> <fieldset class="captcha"><legend>CAPTCHA</legend><div class="description">This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.</div><input type="hidden" name="captcha_sid" id="edit-captcha-sid" value="86597018" /> <input type="hidden" name="captcha_response" id="edit-captcha-response" value="NLPCaptcha" /> <div class="form-item"> <div id="nlpcaptcha_ajax_api_container"><script type="text/javascript"> var NLPOptions = {key:'c4823cf77a2526b0fba265e2af75c1b5'};</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://call.nlpcaptcha.in/js/captcha.js" ></script></div> </div> </fieldset> <span class="btn-left"><span class="btn-right"><input type="submit" name="op" id="edit-submit" value="Save" class="form-submit" /></span></span> </div></form>