tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81075950937668147612024-03-08T03:32:18.756-08:00climatecrusadersGetting habituated to a habit...
There is a competition to live a life that takes you farther from your roots. Our roots are inevitably ecological. Having gained the wonderful experience of knowing ecology from close corners over the last two decades, I behave like an objective chronicler of it. This blog is meant to be a contemporary chronology of ecology, economics and we the being. The blog will have text and visuals. Ranjan PandaRanjan Pandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07341843624766172820noreply@blogger.comBlogger1160125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8107595093766814761.post-41848402497392477672020-06-05T01:12:00.000-07:002020-06-05T01:12:11.840-07:00Greenstorm Foundation Photo Competition on Nature in Neighbourhood: 100000 in prizes!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Good Morning, World Environment Day is another reminder for
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heal. It is with this in mind that we have chosen the theme for this year -
Nature in the neighbourhood. You can participate by clicking a picture and
uploading at www.greenstorm.green. There are cash prizes worth Rs. 1 lakh to be
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Ranjan Pandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07341843624766172820noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8107595093766814761.post-33671146701849788782020-05-18T07:05:00.000-07:002020-05-18T07:05:00.999-07:00Application deadline: 15th June 2020!! International MSc prog on Global Change Ecology at University of Bayreuth<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Application Invited for MSc study program in Global Change
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Convenor, Water Initiatives</div>
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<b>Tweets @ranjanpanda<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Message below from Carl Beierkuhnlein, University of Bayreuth,
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We would like to advertise the upcoming application deadline
this summer for an attractive and intense international MSc study program in
Global Change Ecology at the University of Bayreuth in Germany. Either you in
person or bachelor students and graduates around may be interested in this
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The program is devoted to understanding and analyzing the
most important and consequential environmental concern of the 21st century;
namely, the ecological consequences of Global Change, especially the effects of
climate change and biodiversity loss. One of the program's focus is the linking
of natural science and socio-economic perspectives. The international program
is realized in close contact with research institutions, NGOs and companies and
administration. Our study program has been acknowledged by the United Nations
as an observer organization. During the last years, we received applications
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Ranjan Pandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07341843624766172820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8107595093766814761.post-47846261183851718812020-05-09T00:49:00.001-07:002020-05-09T00:49:52.837-07:00The #COVID19 Lockdown and Indian Migrant Workers: Two Posts from Ranjan Panda<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The state said it had waged a war against a virus. Just within 4 hours the poor #MigrantWorkers realised it was turning out to be a war against them as well. They feared, hunger will kill them before Corona. It in fact did. The Roti that they somehow had gathered to fight against hunger turned out to be a useless weapon when the train crushed them. Now the state will ascertain the cause of death. Some have already raised the question as to why these fools slept on the railway track. Some asked, why were they walking for hundreds of kilometers even as all of us are advised to 'stay home, stay safe'? Genuine questions! But were not they trying to do exactly that: trying to reach home so that they can stay safe? Now, as the state is trying to ascertain the cause of the death, what would be the result: Suicide? Hunger? Corona? Apathy? State? Ask this question to yourself while ordering your Biryani from Zomato or flaunting your culinary skills on social media. Your answer has a lot to do with future of this country.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>(Pic: Roti that were given as a matter of charity, and not as a Right to the migrant workers falling on the railway tracks as a goods train crushed 16/17 of them to death at Aurangabad. They were walking down from Maharashtra to reach their village in Madhya Pradesh as India failed in taking care of them.)</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Date: 8<sup>th</sup> May 2020<o:p></o:p></div>
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We as a nation have lost our conscience for sure. We have failed our #MigrantWorkers who build our dreams, our cities. We have left them to die in many ways. These 16/17 workers were run over by train, many have died of exhaustion on road and the nation has died several deaths! https://t.co/umIRxr1zax<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mahanadi River Waterkeeper (Member, Global Waterkeeper Alliance, New York)</div>
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Ranjan Pandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07341843624766172820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8107595093766814761.post-25068834274391150902019-10-22T09:44:00.000-07:002019-10-22T09:45:10.193-07:00Strong El Ninos due to climate change: new study!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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El Ninos since 1901, the scientists who conducted this study found that since
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the planet youths are leading efforts to raise awareness on climate crisis,
Odisha youths vow to start a campaign to raise awareness and action on water
crisis in the state. Concerned about the water scarcity and sanitation
challenges that the state faces, and knowing well that climate change is
already aggravating the problem, an inception meeting of the ‘Youth for Water’
campaign was organised here on Sunday under the leadership of Odisha’s Water Man
Ranjan Panda in order to involve youth in chalking out strategies to address
these critical issues. People from across the state, mainly youths and their
mentors from five districts, attended the meeting organised by Water
Initiatives Odisha (WIO), a consortium of civil society organisations and
concerned citizens, local youth-based NGO Patang and Unicef, Bhubaneswar office.
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decided to reach out to and mobilise at least a thousand young people initially
from various colleges, universities and associations on water, sanitation,
hygiene (including menstrual) (WASH), rivers, environment and climate change
issues for bringing positive change in their behaviour and organising common
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the meeting, Panda, convenor of the WIO, said, “Our objective is to build
relationship between youth and water in ways that will help them understand the
importance of water resources including rivers and other surface waterbodies,
groundwater and the entire ecology that will help them work towards conserving
these resources so that they can ensure a water-secured future for themselves.
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“In the
coming 10 months, we will be focusing more on activities related to WASH. Today
we have decided to identify and build capacities of select young people to be
“Safe Water/WASH” ambassadors in their daily lives so that they can be the
change makers and mobilise their families, neighbourhoods and institutions in
joining the efforts. We have also decided to engage these young people in
online and offline activities for campaigning on water and related issues,
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next 10 months, specific activities will be organised in 10 colleges/localities
spanning five districts – Bargarh, Mayurbhanj, Nuapada, Puri and Sambalpur – and
will spread to other districts gradually. In the meeting, the volunteers
chalked out plans to involve youth through various actions both in their
institutions and communities. ‘Youth for Water Club’ will be started in such
institutions/places to engage the local youth through innovative actions
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It may be
noted here that the idea of ‘Youth for Water’ campaign was conceived during the
3<sup>rd</sup> Odisha River Conference, organised by WIO and 35 partner organisations,
at Baripada on 24th-25th March this year. Youth representatives from across the
state took part in the Youth Conclave as part of the conference and raised concerns
regarding the increasing water crisis and the growing detachment of youth from important
ecological elements like rivers and forests. After much deliberation between
the youth and experts led by Panda, it was decided to roll out the ‘Youth for
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The meeting
was facilitated by Bhumisuta Sahu of Patang and youth volunteers Budhuram Meher
and Subodh Padhan provided necessary support to her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Among others, Dr Harendra Panda, Principal, Khariar
College; Sachidananda Mishra of Patang; radio jockey Rosalin Pradhan; and
development practitioners Ajit Panda, Rudra Prasanna Rath, Sukanti Patra, Vibek
Pandey and Satyanand Pandey spoke in the meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Last week I visited the indigenous communities in a small village located at foothills of the transitional zone of Similipal bioreserve. I went there to understand how these nondescript communities, who are far away from the so called modern civilisations and urban conglomeration, have restored a natural biodiversity rich forest of almost 555 acres from a state of severe degradation just in a period of 13 years. What their effort has done is also to revive the natural streams that now bring pure water not only to meet their drinking water needs and irrigate their crop fields but also to feed more water to the Budhabalanga river.<br />
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As I share this picture of the beautiful and pure stream (one of the four major ones their efforts have revived), free from any pollution, data from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) warns us how the polluted stretches of India's major rivers increase from 151 in 2009 to 351 in 2018. Most of this pollution comes from the so called educated and modern civilisations in India's cities.<br />
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See what the indigenous communities give us and what we turn that into! From pure streams to polluted rivers, the journey is certainly not progress!!<br />
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We need to rethink our ways of urbanisation seriously. We need to learn from the indigenous communities.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Ranjan Panda</span></b><br />
Convenor, Water Initiatives, Odisha<br />
Convenor, Combat Climate Change Network, India<br />
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Ranjan Pandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07341843624766172820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8107595093766814761.post-27312425454890820432019-09-23T01:19:00.000-07:002019-09-23T01:19:18.828-07:00Scientists warn us again: Emergency Climate Action needed!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Strike today, this alarming news from scientists knock our doors again asking
for emergency actions to face the unprecedented impacts of climate change. A
landmark new report #UnitedInScience, compiled by the UN World Meteorological
Organization (WMO), and that is to be presented to the UN Climate Action
Summit, underlines the glaring – and growing – gap between agreed targets to
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The UN has reported that among other findings, the report
says that accelerating climate impacts from melting ice caps to sea-level rise
and extreme weather were to blame for the record as the global average
temperature increased by 1.1°C above pre-industrial (1850-1900) times and 0.2°C
warmer than 2011-2015. It highlights the urgency of fundamental socio-economic
transformations and carbon-curbing actions in key sectors such as land use and
energy to avert dangerous global temperature increase, with potentially
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Convenor, Water Initiatives<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ranjan Pandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07341843624766172820noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8107595093766814761.post-30336920310495257392019-05-30T09:12:00.000-07:002019-05-30T09:12:29.828-07:002019 Global Youth Video Competition: Last date to apply - 28 July 2019!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB">The UNDP-implemented GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP) has announced its <b>2019 Global Youth Video Competition</b>.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;">This year, the fifth edition of the video competition aims to mobilize global youth around the </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">Climate Action Summit </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;">organized in Sept 2019 by the </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;">.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;">The competition is led by the Secretariats of the three Rio Conventions: the </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #00587e; padding: 0in;">United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change</span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;"> (UNFCCC), the </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.cbd.int/secretariat/&source=gmail&ust=1559314021894000&usg=AFQjCNENFmbgaIX5rwUgKnJZ2XgkfpatVQ" href="https://www.cbd.int/secretariat/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #00587e; padding: 0in;">Convention on Biological Diversity</span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;">(CBD) and the </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.unccd.int/&source=gmail&ust=1559314021894000&usg=AFQjCNFVsQz-L-qr9ZUKjly8_cp8T_gZ_Q" href="https://www.unccd.int/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #00587e; padding: 0in;">United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification</span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;"> (UNCCD), in partnership with the GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP), implemented by the United Nations Development Programme, and Television for the Environment (TVE).<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<li class="m_-475397862312661746MsoListParagraph" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">One winner will be selected per category. The three winners will attend and screen their films at the UNFCCC COP25 in Santiago, Chile, in Dec 2019;<u></u><u></u></li>
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Ranjan Pandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07341843624766172820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8107595093766814761.post-84628020430896923642019-05-07T05:37:00.001-07:002019-05-07T05:37:13.440-07:00Cyclone Fani SITREP from Odisha as on 7th May 2019 <p dir="ltr">STATE EMERGENCY OPERATION CENTER (SEOC),<br>
BHUBANESWAR, ODISHA</p>
<p dir="ltr">• 05 Nos. 400 KV towers, 27 Nos. of 220 KV towers, 21 Nos. 130 KV towers have been damaged in the cyclone. 04 numbers of 220 KV Grids at Chandaka, Bidanasi, Samagra, Mendhasala and 4 numbers of 132 KV Grid at Puri, Nimapada, Mancheswar and Ransinghpur have been damaged.<br>
• 5030 Kms. of 33 KV lines, 38613 Kms. of 11 KV lines, 11077 nos. of distribution transformers, and 79485 Kms. of LT lines damaged.<br>
• In Puri district extensive damages have occurred to all kutcha houses. Structures of temporary street vendors have been completely damaged. 160 nos. of people injured and admitted to hospital for treatment. Special Circuit House Puri, Office and Residence of SP and Collector have been badly damaged like many other buildings.<br>
• Huge numbers of trees have been uprooted resulting in disruption of road communication. Khordha and Bhubaneswar city have been severely affected.<br>
• In Bhubaneswar 03 persons injured and hospitalized.<br>
• Power supply snapped due to uprooting of electricity poles, damage to substations and transmission lines.<br>
• Telecom towers have been affected resulting in cellular and telephone network down in wide area. All telephone and cell phones are down in Puri district. Telephone and mobile connectivity has also been severely affected in Khordha including Bhubaneswar city.<br>
• Summer crops, orchards, plantations devastated in a large scale.<br>
• Traffic was disrupted in all the PWD roads of Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapada due to up-rooted trees, debris and electric poles.<br>
• 1031 number of public health facilities (MC & H/ DHH/ SDH/ CHCs/ PHCs/ Sub-Centers) damaged.<br>
• 5244 number of Primary School Buildings and 547 number of secondary school buildings damaged. <br>
• 980.69 km. of River/ Saline Embankments have been damaged.<br>
• 50% of the plants have been damaged in Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Jajpur and Paradeep.<br>
• 65 no. of Cashew fields in Khurdha, Cuttack, and Jajpur damaged.<br>
• 180 number of Higher Education Institutions severely & 90 numbers of HEIs partially damaged.<br>
• 227 no. of breaches, 5596 kms length of road, 326 no. of culverts have been damaged in PWD roads. 556 no. of roads blocked due to uprooted trees, electric poles & wires, cyclone debris.<br>
• 9693.25 kms. of RD roads and 4610 buildings have been affected.<br>
3. Action Taken:<br>
• Clearing of roads is going on. <br>
• Power restoration process is in full swing.<br>
• Road communication in Ganjam and Gajapti completely restored. Road clearance and restoration works in other districts including Bhubaneswar city is going on.<br>
• Considering the serious disruption of electricity supply, road communication, telephone and mobile connectivity, additional support has been rushed for immediate restoration. Additional teams for road clearance, police for Law and Order, distribution of dry food such as Chuda and Gud, Polythene mobilized to the district.<br>
• 14,18,082 Persons evacuated and sheltered.<br>
• 24,889 numbers of tourists safely evacuated from Puri, Ganjam, Cuttack and Balasore districts.<br>
• 2398 number of polythene rolls from Gajapati district and 3200 rolls from Ganjam district sent to Puri.<br>
• 600 rolls of polythene from Balangir and 200 rolls from Baragarh sent to Cuttack district.<br>
• 500 rolls of polythene from Mayurbhanj, 350 rolls from Keonjhar, 300 rolls from Jharsuguda and 800 rolls from Koraput sent Khordha district.<br>
• Train services resumed to normalcy from Bhubaneswar on 05th may.<br>
• Diary plants are fully operational in Bhubaneswar.<br>
• 15889 packets of relief materials (Chuda, Gur, Biscuit, Candle, Match Box & Salt) handed over to Puri, 4632 packets to Khordha and 800 packets to E. Co. Rly.<br>
• 03 medical teams of Indian Coast Guard, at Paradip with first aid kit, emergency medicines and critical care ambulance assisting the administration.<br>
• 1.15 lakh water pkts. and 1.5 lakh chlorine tablets dispatched from Pondichery to Bhubaneswar.<br>
Health:<br>
• 804 no. of MRCs opened.<br>
• 321 number of Mobile Medical Teams Deployed.<br>
• 1945 numbers of pregnant women shifted to Maa Gruhas/ Delivery points.<br>
• 5703 number of open water sources disinfected affected areas.<br>
• 2854947 number of ORS sachets distributed.<br>
• 2334335 number of Halogen Tablets Distributed.<br>
• 56 number of doctors deployed from outside to Boudh, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapada and Puri.<br>
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Drinking Water:<br>
• Required no. of DG sets hired and moved to the affected districts.<br>
• Team of officials from adjoining districts deployed in most affected districts like Puri, Kendrapada and Jagatsinghpur for assisting the District Administration.<br>
Energy:<br>
• Restoration works have been started by engaging 200 work man gangs mobilized within the State. <br>
• Approximately 200 no. additional gangs have been mobilized from Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal through Partner Agencies such as L & T, TATA Power, PGCIL and NTPC.<br>
• Arrangements have been made for quick procurement and deliver of poles from SAIL for steel poles and State based agencies for PSC (Cement Poles). Distribution transformers are being arranged through Odisha based manufacturers. Other minor material is also being arranged from local sources. In case of any additional requirement of sources from neighbouring States would be tapped.<br>
• The Department of Energy have notified 1.5 times of prescribed wage rate for skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled labourers in cyclone restoration work so as to attract more no of competent gangs from within and outside the State. Fooding wage Rs.150 per person per day has also been prescribed. <br>
Rural Development:<br>
• In Puri district 64 roads cleared out of 560 affected roads.<br>
• In Khurdha all roads cleared except 11.<br>
• In Jagatsinghpur all roads cleared except in 3 blocks.<br>
• In Cuttack all roads cleared except 11.<br>
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4. Deployment of Response Forces and others. <br>
• 20 ODRAF teams have been deployed for SAR and road clearance in the affected areas.<br>
• 44 NDRF teams have been deployed for SAR and road clearance in the affected areas.<br>
• 525 Fire Teams have been deployed for SAR and road clearance in the affected areas. <br>
• 22 teams of OFDC engaged for road clearance and tree cutting in Bhubaneswar City.<br>
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5. District/ ULB Specific Action Taken:<br>
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Puri:<br>
• Marine drive is being cleared from Konark side.<br>
• 19 teams are in action for clearing the roads.<br>
• 32 no. of Medical teams deployed.<br>
• 32 no. of medical relief centres opened.<br>
• 45 no. of Veterinary teams deployed.<br>
• 2799.82 Qtl. of Chuda, 468.1 Qtl. of Gur and 30280 polythene sheets have been distributed.<br>
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Khordha:-<br>
• All PWD Roads cleared by today morning. Uprooted trees have already been cleared from all major roads<br>
• 26 no. of Medical teams deployed.<br>
• 10 no. of Veterinary teams deployed.<br>
• 799 free kitchens running for 92,000 people.<br>
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Bhubaneswar:-<br>
• Traffic movement has been restored in all the PWD roads of Bhubaneswar<br>
• Action has already been initiated to clear all the up-rooted tress in the arterial roads.<br>
• 27 JCBs with full teams are being engaged for restoration work.<br>
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Cuttack:<br>
• Action has already been initiated to clear all the up-rooted trees.<br>
• 23 JCBs with full teams are being engaged for restoration work.<br>
• NHAI has initiated steps to remove up-rooted trees.<br>
• 29 no. of medical teams deployed.<br>
• 28 no. of veterinary teams deployed.<br>
• 383.42 Qtls. of Chuda, 50.93 Qtls. of Gur, 18156 pkts. of biscuits distributed.<br>
• Polythene sheets distributed to 5163 families. <br>
Balasore:<br>
• All PWD roads cleared. Uprooted trees have been cleared from all major roads.<br>
• All affected 33 KV line, 80 % of the 11 KV line, 70 % of the LT Lines,<br>
68% of damaged distribution transformers have been restored.<br>
• Electricity has been restored in 72 % of Drinking Water Supply System (Urban) and 80 % of Medical Institutions (DHC/ CHC/ PHC)<br>
• 34 no. of Medical Teams deployed.<br>
• 12 no. of Veterinary teams deployed.<br>
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Ganjam:-<br>
• Traffic has been restored in all PWD Road and NH roads.<br>
• 252 uprooted trees have already been cleared from all the roads.<br>
• 44 No. of Medical teams deployed.<br>
• 22 No. of Veterinary teams deployed.<br>
• 4.5 MT of Cattle feed supplied.<br>
• Chuda- 823.37 Qtl., Gud- 204.74 Qtls, K. Oil 23200 ltrs., Polythene 2039 pieces distributed.<br>
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Jajpur:<br>
• Almost all roads are cleared by Fire/ ODRAF/ NDRF/ Engineering Dept. Bearing few interior village roads.<br>
• Restoration of power supply is in full swing. Power supply to District HQ Hospital restored.<br>
• PWS are functioning on mobile DG sets.<br>
• 3 days emergent relief sanctioned.<br>
• For clearance of Traffic, 10 JCBs with full teams are being engaged for restoration work.<br>
• 23 no. of Medical teams deployed.<br>
• 50 no. of Medical Relief Centers Opened.<br>
• 10 no. of Veterinary teams deployed.<br>
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Bhadrak:<br>
• Electricity Restored in 90 % of Bhadrak Municipality, 80 % in Bhadrak Block, 70 % in Bonth block, 40 % in Bhandaripokhari block, 35 % in Dhamnagar block, 60 % in Chandabali block, 65 % in Tihidi block, 65 % in Basudevpur block. <br>
• All PWD roads cleared. Uprooted trees cleared from all major roads.<br>
• Chuda- 11 Qtls, Gur- 02 Qtls. and Biscuits- 91 cartoons distributed. Additional 13 Qtls. of Chuda, 103 cartoons of biscuits received from different volunteer organisations distributed.<br>
• 223.15 Qtl. of PDS rice supplied for 494 free kitchens.<br>
• 125 PWS out of 200 affected have been operationalised using DG sets.<br>
• Power supply have been restored in 36 affected PWS.<br>
• 2768 no. of tube well disinfected out of 17723.<br>
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Jagatsinghpur:<br>
• Action has already been initiated to clear all the up-rooted trees.<br>
• 08 JCBs with full teams are being engaged for restoration work.<br>
• NHAI has intimated steps to remove up-rooted trees.<br>
• 02 nos. of medical teams deployed.<br>
• 01 no. of veterinary teams deployed.<br>
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Dhenkanal <br>
• Traffic was normalised in all the PWD roads by engaging 20 JCBs with full teams for restoration work.<br>
• 16 no. of medical teams and 28 ambulances deployed.<br>
• 04 no. of Veterinary teams deployed.<br>
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Kendrapada<br>
• Traffic has been restored in all PWD Roads and NH roads.<br>
• Uprooted trees have already been cleared from all major roads.<br>
• 58 no. of Medical teams deployed.<br>
• 72 Qtl. Chuda & 02 Qtl Gur distributed.<br>
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Mayurbhanj:<br>
• 15 no. of medical teams deployed. <br>
• 10 no. of veterinary teams deployed.<br>
Nayagarh:<br>
• Traffic has been restored in all PWD roads<br>
• 04 no. of Medical teams deployed.<br>
• 06 no. of Veterinary teams deployed.<br>
• 203 no. of polythene sheets distributed.<br>
Angul:<br>
• All PWD roads cleared. Up rooted trees have already been cleared from all major roads.<br>
• 04 no. of Medical teams deployed.<br>
• 04 no. of Veterinary teams deployed.<br>
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6. Hon'ble Chief Minister's Package:<br>
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• The district of Puri and parts of Khurdha have been extremely severely affected. For all families covered under Food Security, 50 KG of rice plus Rs. 2000/- and polythene will be provided.<br>
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• For the parts of Khurdha District that have been severely affected, for all families covered under food security additional one month quota of rice plus Rs. 1000/- and polythene will be provided.<br>
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• Cuttack, Kendrapada and Jagatsinghpur districts are moderately affected. <br>
Rs. 500/- plus additional one month quota of rice will be provided in these districts.<br>
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• In all the affected districts one month additional pension and house building assistance as per relief code i.e.<br>
▪ Rs. 95,100/- for fully damaged structures,<br>
▪ Rs. 5,200/- for partially damaged structures and<br>
▪ Rs. 3,200/- for minor damages will be provided.<br>
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• The houses completely damaged will be reconstructed under housing schemes expeditiously.<br>
• Loss of Agriculture and horticultural crops and animal resources, fisheries will be assessed and compensated accordingly.<br>
• Tree plantations will be taken up in mission mode soon after relief and restoration on the 3rd day of post cyclone it seems another 1 week may short fall to restore power n water in BBSR it self.</p>
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Ranjan Pandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07341843624766172820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8107595093766814761.post-13469275578876661272019-02-25T03:29:00.000-08:002019-02-25T03:29:21.654-08:00People losing out to sea, traditional fishing losing out to unsustainable practices: Vizag Field Diary<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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be conferred during 3<sup>rd</sup> Odisha River Conference, to be held with <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Similipal River Festival</b>, on 24-25
March 2019 at Baripada<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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community efforts to conserve water resources and related fields are especially
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countdown to 3<sup>rd</sup> Odisha River Conference are efforts to involve
youth and children in river and forest conservation<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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to discuss <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Forest-River-Communities
linkage for conservation of Rivers and combating Climate Change<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: #38761d; color: white; font-size: 12pt;">Bhubaneswar, 12<sup>th</sup>
February 2019 - Water Initiatives, Odisha (WIO), the leading voice of water in
Odisha for nearly three decades, has invited nominations from individuals and
communities for the 3<sup>rd</sup> batch of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Odisha Water Honours</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Odisha Water Honours, the only of its kind in the state, are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">meant to recognise dedicated individuals
and communities for their pioneering contributions in the field of
water/river/ecology conservation and restoration through various actions such
as conservation, awareness, education, advocacy, grassroots initiatives. </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #38761d; color: white; font-size: 12pt;">The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Odisha
Jala Joddha Samman</i></b> is given for individual contributions while <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ajira
Bhagiratha Samman</i></b> is conferred for commendable efforts by a
community/organisation, informed Ranjan Panda, Convenor of Water Initiatives,
also popularly known as Water Man of Odisha.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #38761d; color: white; font-size: 12pt;">For the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Odisha Jala Joddha Samman</b>, applications
are invited from individuals who have contributed positively towards building
awareness on issues like water and water-forest-biodiversity interlinkages or
have done pioneering work through their publications, individual actions or
other means that have influenced policy decisions and initiated community
mobilisation on these issues, Panda added.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #38761d; color: white; font-size: 12pt;">For the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ajira Bhagiratha Samman</b> nominations are
invited from communities/groups/organisations who have been doing exemplary
work in conservation of water resources, protection of natural forests that
have increased the availability of water resources in the locality, or any such
efforts in water conservation/management that has empowered communities assert
their rights over water and impacted their lives, livelihood and local ecology
positively.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #38761d; color: white; font-size: 12pt;">He continued:
“These honours are not only a tribute to people and communities who are
endeavouring hard to work on water/ecology conservation, but also aimed at
raising awareness about the dire need of such work at a point of time when
water has already become a scarce resource and impacting millions of people and
other species adversely.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #38761d; color: white; font-size: 12pt;">These applications
need to be emailed to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><a href="mailto:ranjanpanda@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">ranjanpanda@gmail.com</span></a></u> </b>or
sent via messages in the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mahanadi River
Waterkeeper</b> page in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Facebook</b>. The
nominations can be made either by the concerned individuals/groups or by others
on their behalf.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The last date of sending nominations is 18<sup>th</sup> March 2019.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<u><span style="background-color: #38761d; color: white; font-size: 12pt;">For further
details, people are requested to write emails or post messages on Mahanadi
River Waterkeeper Facebook page.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="background-color: #38761d; color: white; font-size: 12pt;">These awards will
be conferred on the selected persons and communities at Baripada on 24<sup>th</sup> March
during the 3<sup>rd</sup> Odisha River Conference to be organised, along
with Similipal River Festival, by the WIO in collaboration with more than 30
partner organisations, Panda briefed. He requested all the media outlets to
spread this message by giving ample coverage so that deserving
persons/communities can file their nominations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #38761d; color: white; font-size: 12pt;">He further said, “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">This time we are encouraging nominations
from women and women-led community organisations for these honours.</b>”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #38761d; color: white; font-size: 12pt;">In countdown to the
3rd Odisha River Conference, several local competitions are also being
organised by WIO and local hosts at Baripada.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="background-color: #38761d; color: white; font-size: 12pt;">In the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Selfie with Budhabalanga</b> Contest, youths
in the age group of 18-25 from Odisha can participate. The competition, a part
of WIO’s <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">river-youth connect</b>
programme, aims at motivating the youth to get closer to rivers, love them, understand
their plight and help save them. The last date for submitting entries is 20th March 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #38761d; color: white; font-size: 12pt;">A series of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">drawing and quiz competitions</b> on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Budhabalanga River </b>and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Similipal bio reserve</b> will also be
organised among school and college students at Baripada, the host town. Exciting
prizes await youth and children who participate and win in these
competitions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Prizes will be given away at
the inaugural session of the conference. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Odisha River Conference - <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #38761d; color: white; font-size: 12pt;">This time around,
the theme for the Odisha River Conference is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">‘Forest-River-Communities Nexus for Conservation of Rivers and
Combating Climate Change</b>’, to be held at Baripada on 24-25 March. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More than 100 participants including community
members involved in forest and conservation; villagers, indigenous communities
and farmers; <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>local and national level experts
on river/water, forest and climate change issues; representatives from civil
society organisations from across the nation; researchers, academics and other
concerned people are expected to join the two day long intense deliberation
that would lead to formulating future strategies of working together to
conserve our rivers, lakes, other water resources, natural forests and promote
nature based solutions to combat climate change with complete participation of
local and indigenous communities, Panda said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #38761d; color: white;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">As this conference
reaches its third episode, it has turned into a huge collective endeavour to
save the rivers and other ecosystems</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">. More than 30 organisations
from local, state, national and international levels have already given their
consent to collaborate in this year’s river conference and more organisations
have shown their interest to join, informed Panda.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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information, please contact:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #38761d; color: white; font-size: 12pt;">Ranjan Panda<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #38761d; color: white; font-size: 12pt;">Convenor, Water
Initiatives<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #38761d; color: white; font-size: 12pt;">On behalf of the 3<sup>rd</sup>
Odisha River Conference organising committee<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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9437050103/7008706434<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #38761d; color: white; font-size: 12pt;">Tweets @ranjanpanda
and @MahanadiRiver<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A ‘River Basin Approach’ in ‘Nature Based Solutions’ by ensuring rights to local and indigenous communities over the local natural resources with involvement of all stakeholders can offer some of the best solutions to growing water woes and climate change crises. That’s what we want to explore further in our exciting upcoming River Conference (3<sup>rd</sup> Odisha River Conference) scheduled for <b>24-25 March 2019</b> with the following theme:</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Promoting the Forest-River-Communities nexus for Conservation of Rivers and Combating Climate Change</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The conference will see a unique gathering of forest protecting communities, civil society organisations, experts, academia and other stakeholders at Baripada in the eastern state of Odisha. Baripada in Mayurbhanj district, famous for the Simlipal bio reserve and a perfect test case to understand intricate linkages between forests, rivers and indigenous communities. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Conference agenda has significance both at national and global context for people working on these issues and who are interested in taking up suitable action and advocacy initiatives surrounding the theme. We plan to have two general sessions, four technical sessions and a River Festival by indigenous communities residing in the Similipal bio reserve showcasing their relationship with the rivers and forests. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><img alt="Nothing much remains of Manju Seth’s house after the extreme rainfall last July (Photo by Ranjan Panda)" class="size-full wp-image-10899" data-attachment-id="10899" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-description="<p>Nothing much remains of Manju Seth’s house after the extreme rainfall last July (Photo by Ranjan Panda)</p>
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<span style="color: white;">Nothing much remains of Manju Seth’s house after the extreme rainfall last July (Photo by Ranjan Panda)</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Extreme precipitation events are the new normal in India. Of the recent disasters related to such extremes, the Kerala deluge haunts the national memory the most. The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), in its latest State of Global Climate report, noted that among the extreme weather events in 2018, the Kerala floods caused the maximum number of casualties globally.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">As the debate is yet to settle whether extreme rainfall or faulty management of dams were to blame for the Kerala floods, in the eastern state of Odisha, the Hirakud dam — arguably Asia’s longest earthen dam and blamed for many floods – is up for another challenge: extreme precipitation events.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Last monsoon, fortunately enough, a disaster was averted due to sheer luck. Fortunately, the date of massive rainfall and that of dam’s floodwater release missed each other by a few days. The debate over extreme precipitation events and urban flooding currently centres more around large cities, but smaller cities adjacent to dams need to be seriously watched and preparations for building their resilience to such extreme events need to be built. This case tells us why.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">On July 27 last year, Manju Seth, a lady in her mid-forties, was busy gathering all that remained in the riverbed where she had a small hut just a week ago near Kachheri Chhak Ghat of Mahanadi River in Sambalpur. The district administration on July 20 had forced her and 13 other families dwelling in the place to evacuate their dwellings because Hirakud dam was to release the first lot of floodwaters on July 24.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Manju was reluctant and so were all the other families. They had been asked by the district administration to stay on the riverbed just about a year ago, when they were displaced from a slum on the river bank to give way to a bridge being built across the Mahanadi. “We had been living here at the Kachheri Chhak for more than 50 years, and when they decided to build a bridge they just asked us to vacate. Where would we go?” asked Manju, who works as a maid, sweeping homes, cleaning utensils and washing clothes for some well-off families of the city.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Ironically, the district administration had supplied electricity to this new habitation a few months ago, knowing very well that a riverbed cannot be a permanent settlement. “We were not sure about the rains and water this time, as for the last 3-4 years the water level had not touched this side of the river bed where we built our houses,” she said. This time, the rainfall was scary for Manju and for the whole district.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">While the district administration had not yet fully realised the dangers of an extremely heavy rainfall that was making its way to the city, it kept persuading Manju and others to vacate the place and shift to a flood shelter. “They were evacuated because the dam was to release first lot of floodwaters on July 24. What surprised us was that on July 21 and 22, just after they were asked to shift to a flood shelter in Chhanrpur Jharapali village on the other side of the river, the city received unprecedented rainfall, something that has not seen since 1982,” said Jagdish Mishra, a local social activist.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">On July 21, when heavy rainfall lashed most parts of the state and the government’s attention was concentrated on the state’s capital city of Bhubaneswar, Sambalpur, just downstream of Hirakud, was drowning as well. Burla, the city on the other end of Hirakud dam, received as high as 622 mm of rainfall in a day, breaking a <a href="https://www.aninews.in/news/national/general-news/odisha-burla-gets-highest-rainfall-breaks-36-yr-record201807231024330001/" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border: 0px none currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 100%; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">36-year-old record</a> of the district. <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border: 0px none currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 100%; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">See</span>: <a href="https://indiaclimatedialogue.net/2018/07/23/act-now-to-spur-urban-climate-resilience/" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border: 0px none currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 100%; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Act now to spur urban climate resilience</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><img alt="Fourteen houses of poor and internally displaced people on the Mahanadi riverbed were washed out after heavy rainfall (Photo by Ranjan Panda)" class="size-full wp-image-10900" data-attachment-id="10900" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-description="<p>Fourteen houses of poor and internally displaced people on the Mahanadi riverbed were washed out after heavy rainfall (Photo by Ranjan Panda)</p>
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<span style="color: white;">Fourteen houses of poor and internally displaced people on the Mahanadi riverbed were washed out after heavy rainfall (Photo by Ranjan Panda)</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">It was almost 41% of the entire year’s rainfall. More than half of the city was engulfed in water. Reports of the administration said that this rainfall affected at least 125,000 people and damaged more than 700 homes. Around 2,500 people were provided shelter in 22 relief camps and at least one person died.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">The Hirakud reservoir was swelling that day as more than 100,000 cusec of water was entering into the reservoir for incessant rains upstream in Chhattisgarh that borders Odisha in the north. For four days prior to the Odisha rains, the dam was being filled with more water from the upstream state. On July 20, at night at around 9 pm, the water level had crossed 608.62 feet. The dam, which has been failing in controlling floods, runs into safety risks at such levels of water.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">In 1982, Sambalpur had received 582 mm rainfall that had engulfed almost two thirds of the city under floodwaters. The city had never seen such a flood before. One of the main roads of the city, that runs parallel to Mahanadi River, breached because a major drain carrying both backwater of the Hirakud reservoir and rainwater forced its way to the river.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">The city’s planning took a major shift after that. Strengthening embankments became a priority along with strong sluice gates on these drains at points they join the river. Sambalpur is on the bank of Mahanadi River, just about 10 km downstream the Hirakud dam, built in 50s. The region is now prone to increased number and intensity of extreme precipitation events, partly due to climate change.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">“The Hirakud dam that was built to control floods in the delta districts of the river 300-400 km downstream has not only been unsuccessful in doing that but also has increased the floods in the upstream districts such as Sambalpur, where flood was not known earlier,” said Arttabandhu Mishra, a retired teacher from the Sambalpur University who has studied the Hirakud dam extensively.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">This dam, spreading over 746 sq. km — almost half of the size of Delhi — is the only major dam project and flood control system on the 858 km long Mahanadi River, India’s sixth largest river, that drains an area of around 141,600 sq. km. The two major riparian states — Chhattisgarh and Odisha — have locked horns over the sharing of water of this river and the conflict centres around reducing flow of water from the upper state (Chhattisgarh) due to construction of a number of dams and barrages.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">A major area of the conflict that does not make news is the potential of increased flood disasters due to increased number of dams and barrages being built upstream of Hirakud. Even though Odisha has raised this point during a Chief Ministerial level meeting held on the conflict, both the states <a href="https://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/natural-disasters/blame-it-on-hirakud--58344" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border: 0px none currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 100%; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">have not chalked out any joint mechanism</a> to streamline and strengthen coordinated flood management strategies.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><img alt="Sambalpur city on the bank of Mahanadi River just downstream of Hirakud dam is most vulnerable in changing climate scenarios (Photo by Ranjan Panda)" class="size-full wp-image-10901" data-attachment-id="10901" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-description="<p>Sambalpur city on the bank of Mahanadi River just downstream of Hirakud dam is most vulnerable in changing climate scenarios (Photo by Ranjan Panda)</p>
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<span style="color: white;">Sambalpur city on the bank of Mahanadi River just downstream of Hirakud dam is most vulnerable in changing climate scenarios (Photo by Ranjan Panda)</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Civil society organisations such as the Water Initiatives Odisha (WIO) have been consistently <a href="http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/node/7448" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border: 0px none currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 100%; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">raising concerns</a> about the failed flood management in the Hirakud, alleging that the so-called rule curve that is followed in managing the inflow and outflow of floodwaters during the monsoon has drastically failed in factoring issues such as developments upstream that changes the flood flow, and climate change that increases rainfall variability. The Comptroller and Auditor General has also rapped the state government for failures in flood management due to <a href="https://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/natural-disasters/blame-it-on-hirakud--58344" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border: 0px none currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 100%; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">similar reasons</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">The heavy downpour that happened in July cannot be ignored any further as a stray event. Studies point to dangerous trends that grip the river basin already. Mahanadi is already facing increased high floods and <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263735402_Are_recent_frequent_high_floods_in_Mahanadi_basin_in_eastern_India_due_to_increase_in_extreme_rainfalls" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border: 0px none currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 100%; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">researchers attribute this to climate change</a>. A study by researchers from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, published in the Journal of Hydrology concludes, on the basis of their analysis pertaining to post-Hirakud dam construction period, that the recent incidences of high floods in the Mahanadi basin is due to an increase in extreme rainfall in the middle reaches of the basin. It means the extreme rainfall received at Sambalpur in July this year is a new normal and threat.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">“The summer monsoon is very important for agrarian countries like us as it brings 80% of the rainfall and that’s going to be impacted due to increased extreme precipitation events,” Sandeep Pattnaik of IIT Bhubaneswar said. Pattnaik is co-author of the research paper titled <a href="https://indiaclimatedialogue.net/2019/01/09/mismanagement-can-worsen-odisha-extreme-rainfall-events/Ramifications%20of%20Atmospheric%20Humidity%20on%20Monsoon%20Depressions%20over%20the%20Indian%20Subcontinent" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border: 0px none currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 100%; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ramifications of Atmospheric Humidity on Monsoon Depressions over the Indian Subcontinent</a> that has been published in the Nature Scientific Reports.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">“There has been a constant increase in extreme rainfall events over central India during 1950-2015 and it’s going to increase as the surface gets warmer,” he said. “We have studied four monsoon depressions, three of which are from the Bay of Bengal and have found out that the Mahanadi catchment area will experience increased extreme precipitation events.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Manju survived the rainfall all because the river was still dry and Hirakud had not released any floodwater. Manju and others were demanding permanent rehabilitation and at a place close to the city. “I have three children and the elder girl is studying in class 10th. This is a critical year and we cannot manage her studies from a faraway place,” she said. Her struggle for rightful rehabilitation will continue, as will be the case of the millions who are displaced by disasters in the country, and live in dingy informal settlements.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">The city of Sambalpur with its 335,000 people, and other places downstream, cannot be complacent any longer, knowing the fact that flood events due to extreme precipitation are going to grow and cities like Sambalpur will be at the receiving end. There is an urgent need to integrate city planning with climate change induced calamities. We just can’t leave it to luck, as there is no guarantee we can avoid days of extreme precipitation coinciding with those of floodwater release from the dam.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">“There are various lacunae in our current data generation methods. We don’t have high-density surface observation systems. The existing weather stations are too less and their recordings can miss the complete picture,” Pattnaik said. “While high-density weather observation stations are needed starting from catchment areas to the delta, a proper cooperation and coordination between both the states is also vital.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">This article is being reproduced from India Climate Dialogue. The link to the original article can be accessed at https://indiaclimatedialogue.net/2019/01/09/mismanagement-can-worsen-odisha-extreme-rainfall-events/</span></div>
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Ranjan Pandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07341843624766172820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8107595093766814761.post-43153996979731977422018-10-19T23:15:00.001-07:002018-10-19T23:15:19.893-07:00$43 mn Green Climate Fund to support Coastal resilience<p dir="ltr">This project will be implemented in Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra for Mangrove restoration, building community resilience and other aspects for 6 years to support India's Paris Goals.</p>
<p dir="ltr">More here: http://adaptation-undp.org/green-climate-fund-approves-us43-million-undp-supported-project-boost-climate-resilience-millions</p>
<p dir="ltr">Ranjan Panda<br>
Convener, Combat Climate Change Network, India</p>
<p dir="ltr">Email: ranjanpanda@gmail.com </p>
<p dir="ltr">Tweets @ranjanpanda<br>
Tweets @MahanadiRiver </p>
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The Very Severe Cyclonic Storm "Titli" has done a
lot of damage to Odisha coasts, with high speed wind and the extreme rainfall
that followed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Titli crossed the coast near
Palasa in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh to the southwest of Gopalpur with
estimated maximum sustained surface wind speed of 140-150 kmph gusting to 165
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Like the Phailin in the same time of the year, back in 2013,
the rainfall in the aftermath caused floods and other devastation that the
government had not anticipated well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About
24 human deaths and more than 24000 livestock casualty recorded so far.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The actual figure may be more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no estimate available for the
casualty suffered by wildlife. A television news channel report this morning
showed how elephants were being washed away due to heavy floods in Mahanadi but
I could not confirm the details as yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The heavy downpour that followed the landfall of Titli
flooded the Rushikulya and Vanshadhara rivers affecting 16 districts of Odisha.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As per reports shared by the Special Relief
Commissioner of the state, more than 5.7 million people in 7229 villages of
these districts have been affected by the rainfall and the floods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Agriculture in these villages has received a
heavy jolt as more than 2.3 hundred thousand hectare of crop fields have been
damaged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Odisha's opposition parties are already criticising the
state government for not being able to keep its promise of 'zero casualty' but
the government seems to have given more attention to the relief and
rehabilitation works, rightly so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The political debate will not settle soon. We will all participate
in that, to understand where the failure lay and how to change our plans in
future. Did the weatherman fail in proper predictions of the aftermath? Did the
government fail to gauge the gravity of the predictions?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did the local administration not act in line
with the Disaster Management Plan? Did the local Disaster Management Committees
(supposed to have been formed and trained by the government and other agencies)
failed in carrying out the due procedures?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All these questions will haunt the state of Odisha that's currently engaged
in relief and preliminary rehabilitation efforts.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>The Debris that go into the sea – <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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In this post I am trying to flag an important issue that is
normally not discussed as a major issue in such storm stroke aftermaths.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am talking about the debris that is washed
away from the inlands to the sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today
morning Himanshu Thakkar of SANDRP twitted to me a video <a href="https://youtu.be/9wazyFvJZbU">https://youtu.be/9wazyFvJZbU</a> that shows
how the mouth of Rushikulya river has received loads of garbage and other
debris due to Titli and floods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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We often forget that our rivers are carriers of all our
wastes into the sea throughout the year, more so during the monsoon
months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Disasters such as this add to
the force of the water that go into the sea and bring along more of our wastes
into the sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Earlier I have already
written extensively how plastic pollution of the sea is causing huge damage to
the oceans as well the earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://bit.ly/2QRjOEB">http://bit.ly/2QRjOEB</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Ranjan Pandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07341843624766172820noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8107595093766814761.post-59221124035354507152018-10-14T22:22:00.001-07:002018-10-14T22:22:34.317-07:00Finding a friend in a stray dog<p dir="ltr">Coco (as Khushi, my daughter,has named her) is now a regular visitor to us. She is a stray dog and was very weak when we first saw her. She feared everything, and was scared even to eat something we would offer. We had to leave the food a few yards away from our main gate and close it. Initially she watched us and the food from several yards away and after about 10 minutes of our invisibility she used to come and eat. In about 10 days she is now a friend and eats from Khushi's hands. That's an improvement. Hope she will continue to grace us with her acceptance of our friendship!</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Good morning!<br>
Have a great Sunday & Festive Week ahead!!</p>
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<p dir="ltr">The index ranks 157 countries on their policies on social spending, tax, and labour rights. As per the report, countries such as South Korea, Namibia and Uruguay are taking strong steps to reduce inequality. However, countries like India and Nigeria did very badly.</p>
<p dir="ltr">https://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/inequality-index-india-ranks-in-bottom-15-out-of-157-countries-on-efforts-to-reduce-disparity/1342770/</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Ranjan Panda<br>
Convenor, Combat Climate Change Network, India</p>
<p dir="ltr">Email: ranjanpanda@gmail.com </p>
<p dir="ltr">Tweet @ranjanpanda <br>
Tweet @MahanadiRiver </p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="background-color:#D8DFEA;">#MahanadiPeaceInitiative</span> </p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="color:#1B95E0;">#CommonsAwarenessWeek</span> <span style="color:#1B95E0;">#CAW</span> </p>
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Severe <span style="background-color:#D8DFEA;"><span style="background-color:#D8DFEA;">#CyclonicStormTitli</span></span> </p>
<p dir="ltr">Ranjan Panda<br>
Convenor, Combat Climate Change Network, India</p>
<p dir="ltr">Email: ranjanpanda@gmail.com </p>
<p dir="ltr">Tweet @ranjanpanda<br>
Tweet @MahanadiRiver </p>
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