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Trawler seized and 5 fishermen arrested in Marine sanctuary

December 14, 2009 — IMC

The Bhitarkanika forest officials, on Saturday, arrested at least five fishermen and seized a mechanized fishing vessel from their possession while they were catching fish illegally by entering unlawfully into the prohibited zone under Gahirmatha Marine sanctuary near Agarnasi, said Prasanna Kumar Behera, the DFO of Rajanagar Mangrove and Wildlife Divison..

According to Behera, while the forest officials were patrolling the sea within Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary to provide security to the endangered olive ridely sea turtle, they found fishermen were catching fish illegally by entering into the prohibited zone of the sanctuary with a fishing trawler. Later, the forest officials intercepted the fishing trawler and arrested the fishermen.

The arrested fishermen were the inhabitants of Ramnagar and Kharnashi village under Mahakalapada block .

The arrested fishermen were booked under Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 and are going to be produced before the JMFC Court of Pattamundai on Sunday ,informed the DFO.

Notably, the State Forest Department has imposed ban on fishing around 20 km off the shore from 1st November to 31^st May with an aim to protect the endangered marine turtles, which come en mass for laying eggs at Gahirmatha Marine sanctuary.

With the seizure of the trawler, the forest officials managed to seize five fishing vessels since November 1^st and arrested 26 persons on the alleged charge of fishing illegally after the forest official imposed ban on fishing activities inside the Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary .

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Fate’s cruel joke

December 12, 2009 — IMC

Rajesh Kumar Behera in Kendrapara, India

Being driven by fate’s cruel joke ,a 16-year old ill fated boy, Bhakti Ranjan Pradhan, alias Bula seems much younger than his actually age .Circumstances forced the 16 year old boy to look like a breast feeding child and also to depend totally upon his parent for completing his daily routine life . Meet the ill-fated 16 years old boy , Bula, the son of Rajkishore Pradhan of Maligaon under Nemala Gram Panchayat in Nischantakoili block was born in 1993. He was absolute normal at the time of birth alike other kids. But at the age of 3, the ill fated child lost the ability to crawl and stammer slowly.Later, he became abnormal. Though , the poor parents of Bulu treated him at Cuttack-based Sisu Bhawan for a year .But in vein to cure him. After spending around more than Rs.1 lakh, the poor parents could not afford any more. They were compelled to discharge their son from Sisu Bhaban and take him back home. The doctors at Sisu Bhban conducted several tests and diagnosed that Bula was suffering from a rare kind of both mental and physical retardation disease . In order to cure Bula , the parents has to provide a long term proper treatment ,informed Rajkishore Pradhan, the father of ill fated Bula “ I treated my son to several doctors and spent a huge amount beyond our capacity and finally I stopped the treatment of Bula on the midway due to penury ,” added Rajkishore “As the five members of the family have to depend upon with limited earnings from my spouse’s earning, so it is a daunting task for my spouse to spend amount on my son’s treatment . My husband had earlier urged the local sarapanch, local legislature, member parliament and block as well as district administration for assistant to treat my son but all of them turned their deaf ear to provide financial assistance for my son’s treatment”, informed Annapurna Pradhan, the mother of Bula, with tear rolling on her eyes. The poor parents of Bula have been running from pillar to post to arrange money for their son’s treatment. But all their efforts went in vein. For which Bula has totally depend upon his parents for morning ablution, for feeding .Although he can sit and responds to sound and touch he could not able to stand till date. Hearing a speech form Bula has become a long cherished dream for the parent .The most important thing is that the mother of Bula has to bring up his child just like a breast feeding kid till date. The parents of Bula , how ever urged the government, non-government organization to lend their helping hand for her son’s treatment by providing him financial assistance.

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Obama invokes Mahatma Gandhi as receives Nobel Peace Prize

December 11, 2009 — IMC

Invoking his ‘heroes’ Mahatma Gandhi and legendary civil rights leader Martin Luther King, US President Barack Obama received the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in the capital of Norway Oslo . In his acceptance speech Obama said there is nothing weak -nothing passive – nothing naïve – in the creed and lives of Gandhi and King. The 48-year-old President said he is committed to upholding the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and that he is working with Russian President Medvedev to reduce America and Russia’s nuclear stockpiles. Noting that terrorism has long been a tactic, Obama said modern technology allows a few small men with outsized rage to murder innocents on a horrific scale. He is the third sitting US president to win the award after Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 and Woodrow Wilson in 1919. Former US president Jimmy Carter won the prize in 2002. Tamil Nadu-born Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, one of the three winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry,received the prize at a gala ceremony at Stockholm along with other recipients. The other Nobel laureates in literature, economics, physics and medicine also received their prizes from Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf at a formal event in Stockholm’s Concert Hall. A record five women have been awarded the Nobel this year.

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World Human Rights Day observed in India: ‘Everybody, all stake-holders should join hands to fight for restoring’

December 10, 2009 — IMC

Akhand in Bhubaneswar, India

It is a concern of everybody and all stake-holders should join hands together to fight for restoring the rights of every human being and at the same time everybody should remember that rights means a assertion and it should go together with duties. The civil societies should come in a big way in this regard and they should also build up themselves to take the responsibility in this regard, said Dr. R.N. Bohidar, IAS, Member, Orissa State Human Rights Commission.

He was addressing a gathering at a meeting on the occasion of the World Human Rights Day jointly organized by the Indian Red Cross Society, Orissa State Branch and the Inter Agency Group (IAG) Orissa at the Red Cross Bhavan here on Thursday (10th December 2009). Regarding the Human Rights Commission, Bohidar said that it is only a six-year-old organization and actions are being taken to make it more strong so that its deliver and redressal mechanism will be faster as its fact-finding mechanism.

Poverty, starvation death, distress, migration, loss of livelihood, displacement, lack of social infrastructure, health care system,
education and drinking water, sanitation, landlessness are the major challenges of Human Rights in Orissa in particular and throughout the country in general, said Shri Manas Jena, General Secretary, National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights. Though there are many civil society organizations working on human rights in different fields i.e. women rights, child rights, Dalit rights, these lack convergence and solidarity, he said, adding that a larger alliance between the civil societies organizations and the Government is badly required to ensure the restoration of rights of every human being. He also emphasized on the need of proper mechanism within the concerned civil society organizations, government organizations and in the Human Rights Commissioner for identification, protection, participation and development of Human Rights.

Prof. M. P. Mohanty, Honorary Secretary, Indian Red Cross Society, Orissa State Branch and Chairperson, Inter Agency Group (IAG) Orissa discussed on the activities of the Red Cross and IAG Orissa in different sectors towards restoring human rights.

In the open discussion session, the participants raised the issues like right of restoring one’s right by formation of associations,
police torture on innocent people in the name of Maoists, sluggishness of redressal mechanism of the Human Rights Commission and loss of livelihood of displaced people due to mining activities.

Among others, Dr. Ambika Nanda, UNDP, Sunil Verma, UNICEF, Prof. S. Peppin, XIMB, Shyamal Kishore Das, IAG Orissa, social activists Mahendra Parida, Smt. Tapashi Praharaj, representatives from IAG Orissa member organizations like CARE, World Vision, Caritas, Water Aid, LWSI attended the programme.

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Legal restriction vacated from Indian mosque

December 10, 2009 — IMC

Rajesh Kumar Behera in Kendrapara, India

Both the minority community members , including Deobandi and Bareli ,on Thursday seemed jubilant after performing namaj at Derabish-based Tehttul mosque,which was remained locked since last 24^th September following the district administration clamped Section 144 CrPC and later Section 145 CrPC in the mosque premises by restrict both the minority community members not to enter into the mosque for performing namaj after tension erupted between the duo groups on the issue of appointing Imam.

The minority community members as well as the intellectual masses of the locality praised the interim order of the High Court in this issue by allowing the minority community members to perform namaj and by issuing stay order on Section 145 CrPC on the mosque imposed by the Executive Magistrate Derabish.

According to Ranjan Kumar Das, the Sub-collector of Kendrapara, the High court in its interim order on 7^th December directed the district administration to stay Section 145 CrPC on the mosque, that was imposed by the Executive Magistrate Derabish, and to carry out the direction of Chairperson of the Orissa Wakf Board in this regard till the settlement of the case..

According to Dash, Orissa Board of Wakf, Sayed Osatullah, in its letter no 455/OBW , dated 7.10.09 wrote to SP of Kendrapara, Nara Sundar Mishra, and the Tehsildar of Derabish by informing that for maintaining peace and tranquility ,promulgation of Section 144 Cr.P.C is seemed to be a correct step to stop violence but on the other hand imposition of Section 144 Cr.P.C on mosque or the temple or any religious institution is something which hurt the sentiments of the devotees As a question of amicable settlement has arisen the steps will be taken to settle the matter .The Orissa Board of Wakf also asked the district administration to allow pesh Imam and mouzzan in the mosque for five times namaj and who ever create lawlessness he may be taken into task .

According to official sources, acting on the direction of the High Court, the Sub-collector of Kendrapara,Ranjan Kumar Dash, and the DSP Home Guard , Narayan Mohanty , went to the mosque and vacated Section 145 CrPC from the mosque .

Later, the district administration appointed a pesh imam and mouzzan as per the suggestion taken by the Orissa Board of Wakf till the settlement of the case, added the sub-collector

On Thursday, the Deobandi group performed prayer in the mosque and later the Bareli group performed the prayer by the pesh Imam and Mouzzan appointed by the district administration on the suggestion of the chairperson of Wakf Board, added official sources.

Notably, both the group members were organizing prayer in the road or at the orchard as police barred both the group not to enter into the mosque since last 24^th September after the district administration clamped Section 144 CrPC and later 145 CrPC on mosque .Even the Pesh Imam and the Mouzzan were not allowed to enter into the, mosque for performing five times namaj.