Tag: Nagada

Embarrassed by the revelation about the sorry state of affairs in Nagada village in Jajpur district, the Odisha government has decided to provide road connectivity to remote and inaccessible villages in the state

Bhubaneswar: After being pushed into a tight corner in two back to back incidents – first in Gumudumaha (Phulbani district) and then in Nagada (Jajpur district) – the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) government on Friday announced the doubling of the entitlements under existing food security programmes for each beneficiary in the region. “The current […]

Bhubaneswar: Voicing serious concern over the malnutrition deaths in Nagada village in Jajpur district, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday said the state government had formed a Special Task Force (STF) to look into the issue. Talking to newsmen, Patnaik said, “The task force will also see that such incidents do not recur.” Meanwhile, Agriculture […]

Bhubaneswar: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday turned the heat on the ruling BJD alleging that the State government had embezzled the Indira Awas Yojana (IAY) funds meant for the Juang tribe in Nagada and nearby villages of Jajpur district, where 18 deaths of children due to malnutrition have been reported in the last […]

Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has urged three of his Union cabinet colleagues to send a fact-finding team to ascertain the factors that have led to the death of 19 children in a village in Jajpur district

Jajpur: The Odisha Food Commission chairman today lauded the Jajpur district administration for laying a motorable road to Nagada village, where about 21 children had died last year allegedly due to malnutrition. The children of the tribal-dominated village had died last year in the absence of medical facilities. The incident had hogged the headlines causing […]

Even as the devastating second wave of Covid-19 pandemic has set the alarm bells ringing across the country, the tribal residents at Nagada in Jajpur district are little worried about the deadly virus and its impact because, as they claim,  "Of God's blessings and their own home-made herbal cure." 

Bhubaneswar: Even as the Odisha government last year claimed on the floor of the House that not a single child  died of malnutrition in between 2016 and 2017, the revelation is Odisha did record child malnutrition deaths in 2017. As many as six children had died prematurely due to malnutrition in the State. This was […]

Jajpur: Electricity connection has been finally provided to Nagada, a hilltop tribal village in Sukinda Chromite valley of Odisha’s Jajpur district which had hogged the headlines three years ago for the death of 21 children due to malnutrition, officials said. The power connection was given on Wednesday after the Odisha Lokayukta summoned six district officials […]

Bhubaneswar: Malnutrition menace grips Odisha acutely. Hard numbers show half of the child population in the State are severely  malnourished. With Nagada’s instance still fresh in memory, the malnutrition saga may linger till 2036, the centennial birth year of Odisha. As per a report on state of nutrition in Odisha by the Coalition for Food […]