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UNDP in India partnership with the Government of Odisha clean out the poisonous water hyacinth

in District Diary October 29, 2018 Comments Off on UNDP in India partnership with the Government of Odisha clean out the poisonous water hyacinth 773 Views

Puri :29/10/18:65-year-old, Hara Maharana picks spinach from a floating garden near her home in Totashi village in Odisha as her daughter-in-law Laxmi looks on. In an area full of water hyacinth, women are supplementing family income and nutrition through floating gardens.

Twice a month, 70 women volunteers clean out the poisonous water hyacinth that grows in water bodies in Jeypore village. During the bi-monthly cleaning of the pond, women form a chain to pull floating sections of water hyacinth prior to uprooting them.

Women have been hit hardest by the extreme weather conditions in Odisha, India. Many have to walk for long stretches in search of safe drinking water. Children are often ill with diarrhoea and skin infections resulting from waterlogging.

Since 2011, a UNDP in India partnership with the Government of Odisha, supported by the Australian Agency for International Development is enabling communities in Puri district to adapt to extreme weather events.

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Ashok Palit has completed his graduation from Upendranath College Soro, Balasore and post graduation from Utkal University in Odia Language and literture.. He has also carved out a niche for himself as a scribe of eminence after joining the profession in 1988. He is also an independent media production professional. He brings loads of experience to Advanced Media, Ashok Palit as a cineaste has been active in film criticism for over three decades. As a film society activist, he soared to eminence for his profound commitment to the art film appreciation and aesthetics of cinema. His mode of discourse is often erudite but always lucid and comprehensible marked by a perfect acumen so rare in the field. A film aesthete with an immense fond of critical sensibilities, he wrote about growth and development of odia cinema in New Indian Express, The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, The Asian Age and Screen. He has been working as an Editor for Cine Samaya from 2002-2004.. He had made solid contribution on cinema in many odia Dailies and weekly such as Samaj, Prajatantra, Dharatri, Samaya, Satabadi, and weekly Samaya.
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