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  • Chhattisgarh jail turns safe shelter to terrified villagers against marauding wild elephants

    Express News Service
    RAIPUR : A newly built prison in Chhattisgarh has turned into a shelter for villagers who fear for life from marauding wild elephants. Jumbos have been running amok in the villages of Bhanupratapur block of Kanker district, about 200 km south of Raipur, for the last two weeks.

    Since most villagers here don’t have pucca houses, they approached the authorities demanding measures to safeguard their lives. On Saturday alone, the pachyderms destroyed five huts in a village. 

    “As a precautionary measure we have shifted around 300 villagers from three-four villages to the jail which has been recently constructed. Temporary lights and other essential arrangements have been made for their safe stay till we ensure that the wild elephants, numbering around 22, are no longer a threat to their lives. Most of the villagers live in huts which are usually made of mud. These huts collapse when targeted by elephants which raid the villages for food,” said Manish Kashyap, Kanker divisional forest officer (DFO).

    Bhanupratapur sub-divisional officer (Forest) RK Rayasth told they are consistently keeping a watch over the location and movement of the jumbos.The forest department has sounded alert in several villages where elephants had recently created ruckus, forcing the occupants to flee for shelter in nearby school buildings.

    Chhattisgarh is among those states where human-elephant conflicts are a perennial problem. Over 260 elephants in around 20 herds reportedly move around in different forest divisions in the state.

  • Rural economy strengthened by the Godhan Nyaya Yojana

    The rural economy is being strengthened by the Godhan Nyaya Yojana launched by the Chhattisgarh government from 20 July 2020. Under this scheme, vermicompost is being made in Gothan by purchasing cow dung. 90 thousand 371 quintal cow dung of one crore 80 lakh 74 thousand rupees has been sold by 4 thousand 860 farmers in 207 Gothans of Kanker district. 24 farmers of the district have sold cow dung ranging from 50 thousand to one lakh 37 thousand rupees.

    Cow dung is also being purchased in the Gauthans of Koyilibeda development block of Kanker district. One thousand 452 quintal cow dung of 2 lakh 90 thousand rupees has been purchased from 50 farmers in Gauthan, Harnagarh (Donde) of this development block alone. In addition, 492 quintal vermi compost was prepared by self-help groups of the district. Out of this, 477 quintal vermi compost has been sold for Rs. 4 lakh 71 thousand. The women of the group got an additional income of Rs 62 thousand by selling diya made from cow dung.
    According to information received from the Agriculture Department, 4 thousand 600 quintal vermi compost has been prepared by the women self-help groups from the dung purchased, out of which 3 thousand 345 quintal vermi compost has been sold for Rs 32 lakh 35 thousand, which is in Bastar division. Is the highest in 51 thousand rupees by farmer Satish Yadav of Nagar Panchayat Charama, Aman Tiwari of Nagar Panchayat Bhanupratappur Rs 51 thousand 764, Thakur Ram Yadav of Babudbena Rs 52 thousand, Namita Gupta of Municipal Kanker Rs 52 thousand 276, Chhabila Khatik of Kanker 52 thousand 402, Jethmal Yadav of Markatola Rs 53 thousand 664, Anil Yadav of Bardatola Rs 55 thousand, Choavaram Yadav of Nagar Panchayat Charama Rs 56 thousand, Kavita Dey of Nagar Panchayat Bhanupratappur Rs 60 thousand, Bedam Ram of Salhetola Dung has been sold for 60 thousand 560 rupees, Nandlal Yadav of Marwari for 63 thousand 742 rupees and Radhika Yadav of Nagar Panchayat Charama up to 63 thousand 846 rupees.

  • Bhupesh Baghel on tour of Kanker district from today, will hand over crores of development works

    Bhupesh Baghel will be on a tour of Kanker district on 27 and 28 January. The Chief Minister will hand over development works worth about Rs. 342 crores to the district residents.

    According to the program, the Chief Minister will reach Sriguhan in Kanker district at 3.30 pm today by helicopter. He will inaugurate farmers hostel and agricultural college boys hostel and small grain processing unit in the program organized at Krishi Vigyan Kendra Kanker from 4.40 pm.

    Along with this, women will discuss with self-help groups. The Chief Minister will leave for Gadiya Pahad at 5.40 pm. They will leave from Gadhiapahad and reach Komaldev District Hospital at 7.15 pm and inaugurate the CT scan machine, they will do night rest in Kanker.

  • Seventy thousand farmers sold 27 lakh quintals of paddy in Kanker district, 14 percent still remaining

    So far in Kanker district, more than 70 thousand farmers have sold their paddy on support price. So far, more than 27 lakh quintals of paddy have been purchased from farmers. Now there are four days left for the purchase of paddy at the support price. At the same time, paddy is yet to be purchased from more than 11 thousand registered farmers in the district. Paddy is jammed due to lack of transportation in many procurement centers. Elsewhere the problem of committees has increased due to the slow pace of lifting.

    January 31 is the last date fixed by the state government for purchasing paddy at the support price. There are 81,806 registered farmers in the district, out of which 27,34,593 quintal paddy has been purchased so far from 70,216 farmers on support price. There are 66,060 farmers who have sold paddy only once and 4,156 farmers who have taken their paddy to the procurement center more than once.