Three pictures of Koraput

There are three pictures to describe the beuty of Koraput . Please move down a bit.

A journey from Koraput to Jeypore

It's a great moment to travel from Koraput to Jeypore . One can see beautiful long stretching roads . Specially the Ghat region is more lively . One can see here how beautiful it is . Just look at the sky , mountains and the cloud linking them both . Come and Have a lively experience .

Children take Oath to Transform Schools

These are the pictures at a glance how children attended , participated and brought out their voice for the change in their schools .There are closer photographs once you go down the pages of this posting. Happu Viewing.

Some more pictures

Child Reporters from Koraput, Pottangi, Semiliguda and Nandapur blocks gathered in the TMT School of Doliambo of Semiliguda block. They discussed on School Governance . They came out with the findings on the present situation and their ideas on what the government could do to make it better . They proposed points for the villagers including their parents to make the schools - a temple of learning. They finally took the oath on what could be their role in promoting the cause . Here , their own hand writing could be seen that htey had presented before a house packed elders . This is just the begining.

Block Cluster Level Children's Congress.

Let's Listen to the Speakers and the children. These are some of the pictures from Block Cluster Level Children's Congress, held at Doliambo in Semiliguda block.

National Disaster Reduction Day-Cum-Orissa State Disaster Preparedness Day

Here are the pictures from the Observation Day organised by Orissa State Disaster Management Authority (OSDMA) at Koraput on Monday . Please move your scroll down to see more picture and the write up.

Orissa Disaster Management Day

Here are tyhe pictures from the daring demonstration by the volunteers of Civil Defence . Give a Clap for their effort.

National Disaster Reduction Day

Orissa Disaster preparedness Day and national Disaster Reduction Day was observed in the Panchayat Bhavan at Koraput today . Ashok pangi , the Zilla Parishad President of Koraput atytended the function as the chief guest . While children were given prizes by Orissa State Disaster Management Authority (OSMA) for their excellence in debate and essay competitions as a part of the observation , the highlight of the celebration was the breathtaking search& rescue operation demonstration made by the Civil Defense Volunteers . Earlier in the day school children had brought out a rally from Govt.High School to the Panchayat Bhavan to create awareness on the various aspects of disaster management .

National Disaster Mangement Day

Yellow Blanket in Koraput

This is a field in Koraput where Niger flowers are begining to bloom . This is the unique time to visit to Koraput . You can dance in the yellow fields all over the district.

NSS CAMP FOR GIRLS-VALIDICTION

Bijay Kumar Sahu , the Vice-Chancellor of Berhampur university attended as the chief guest of the function . He addressed the students on the validiction Day of the 10 day long Camp in Sunabeda Women's College today.

Upper Kolab Reservoir

The young visitor is stunned with the beauty of the water stored in the reservoir.

Be careful . it is a photo as seen from the top of a mountain.Could you see the little village ?

And it is here . Just can't beat it.

Nature near Upper Kolab Reservoir

This is the bridge connecting Kolab Nagar with Lamtaput. Once thre route is completed the distance between Koraput and Lamtaput will decrease substantially .

hope You enjoyed travelling on the bridge.

Here is a School

This is also a school in the remote village of nowrangpur district . Children come here and the teacher too. Thanks to both of them .

BJP's Public Meeting at Nowrangpur

BJP would contest the next elections under the leadership of the former prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee , said Vinay Katiar , General Secretary of the Party . He was speaking in the party’s public meeting organized in the RCD High school at Nowrangpur on Wednesday . The fire brand of the party accusing the UPA government at the centre of losing public trust, asked the people to choose either Ram Rajya or Rome Rajya for their future .

Biswabhusan Harichandan , Minister for Law& RD in the state, highlighting the achievement of the alliance government especially in bringing an industrial revolution in the state , declared that there would be a Sugar factory in Nowrangpur district and a Cement factory in Malkangiri district established in the near future .

While the meeting was looked as a befitting reply to the mega political show by the alliance partner, BJD at Umerkote last month , the Vice-President of the party Juel Oram’s statement that the alliance would continue despite of all the hurdles had certainly created sensation among the political observers in the district . Among others Manmohan Samal . the Revenue Minister and Suresh Pujari , President of BJP’s State unit spoke .

However taking the local context into consideration joining of Manjula Majhi , a Prominent leader and former Zilla Parishad Chairperson from Congress into BJP remained the highlight of the meeting . The betrayal she had faced from the Congress party and the growing irresponsible attitude of the Congress party developing towards women were the prime factors that had forced her to join the BJP , she said . PArasuram Majhi , MP of Nowrangpur parliamentary constituency presided over the meeting .

Community Based Theatre -Brings a Change

: Association of ten people at one place does not necessarily form a group if they did not shared an unifying idea , said Girija Choudhury , the spirit behind creating at least 20 Folk Theatre Groups(FTG) under the Community Based Theatre(CBT) programme being supported by UNICEF in the district . These groups, which were formed in Koraput, Kotpad, Jeypore, Pottangi , Semiliguda and Dasamantpur blocks by taking members from the respective villages were empowered to identify their problems and issues , discuss and think in the community , prepare a script , convert them to theatre form and present before their very own people in the village , he added. .

It was altogether a different experience for these performers, as majority of them were the first timers in the field of any form of theatre . The feeling of being trusted by the community gave them more strength to move forward . They were able to speak and act in front of the people who were eager to listen to them , Sekhar Gouda , one of the performers from Maliguda village said .

Drawing lines from the popular street theatres that were used for spreading the messages of change, CBTs have come a long way to stay , Prabir Bose , the fame in the field of people’s theatre from Ambernath in Mumbai said . He was at Koraput to take forward CBT in to the masses with a sustainable approach . While the street theatre or even the stage shows , which were used as one way of dissemination process to spread the desired messages , CBT used the many fold interaction approach to maximize the realization of messages by the public especially in the rural pockets , he added.

CBT was more effective in the tribal communities of the district as they themselves were involved in the process, starting from making the script to using the tools of performance to present effectively before the masses , Ramachandra Gouda another performer from the village said .

For Bhavani Gouda and Manima Gouda , the two little girls from the village, it was more than a fun to be among the spectators of the theatre , with their elder brothers and sisters performing the role of students in the school like them . The topic to face the challenge of dropouts was chosen in the village by the group and was interesting and was more acceptable as was performed in their own language . This form of learning the messages had offered new opportunities to develop added dimensions to the life and now after the task of playing the role was over , they were committed to become the role players in real life to see that there were no drop outs in the village, Sekhar said .

And here CBT had won the advantage over other forms of theatre as people from the community become the communicators during the process and were prepared to take any form of challenges in the life , Mr.Pravir said .
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NAture Speaks the Truth.

Nature Speaks with a great amount of peace hidden in its folds.These are the photographs sent to us by Mr.Mallikarjuna PAttnaik from J.K.Pur in Rayagada .

Despite of richness sometimes it is difficult to reach them . A cow trying to have a meal by snatching leaves from a truck.