Orissa to provide health facilities to school children

October 18th, 2009 RAIPUR/BHUBANESHWAR - Many voluntary and State Government organizations in Chhattisgarh and Orissa are engaged in transforming the lives of slum children and dropout kids by imparting them useful education. Chhattisgarh and Orissa are estimated to be home to about eight million children aged 6 to 14.

October 6th, 2009 SHILLONG - The first-ever hospital for children in the Northeast was recently inaugurated in Meghalaya's capital city Shillong, and it will provide state of the art health care facilities. An initiative of the city's reputed pediatrician, Dr Debashish Das and his wife Dr C Kharbudnah, the 30-bedded hospital is spread over one acre area with a built-up space of 20,000 square feet, and aims to provide top quality medical service for children.

September 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Twenty-two children of the privately run G.D. Goenka School in South Delhi had a narrow escape on Tuesday, when their air-conditioned bus turned turtle and was severely damaged.

August 27th, 2009 DASMANTPUR - Tribals living in Orissa's Dasmantpur village are deprived of basic amenities and health facilities leading to several health hazards. Locals say that the Central Government had made development plans for education, health and communication, but they are yet to see development in this regard.

August 18th, 2009 LEH - Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has inaugurated a school for the underprivileged children from remote and isolated areas of Ladakh region such as Zanskar, Kargil and Nubra valley. Built with support from the Dalai Lama's Charitable Trust and managed by Nalanda Dharma Centre, Leh, the institution named the Jamyang School will impart education in both Tibetan Buddhism and modern sciences to these children.

July 4th, 2009 KORAPUT - Tribals in Orissa's Koraput District have launched a sanitation drive to keep their villages clean and hygienic. 'Sanjog', a government run programme, was organised jointly by Panchayat Raj department, women and child department, health department and education department at the block level.

July 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bihar, Jharkhand and Orissa figure among the list of states lagging behind when it comes to providing the toilet facilities in rural households. "The percentage of rural households without toilet facilities in Bihar stands at 72.58 percent while in Jharkhand 69.08 percent households lack the basic sanitation.

June 17th, 2009 GUWAHATI - Located on the outskirts of Guwahati, Parijit academy in Pamohi village of Assam is a dream school for the poor. The school has come up as a big ray of hope for the poverty-stricken parents who wanted their children to get education despite themselves being illiterate.

May 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi government Wednesday announced that it will come out with a comprehensive plan to provide health and education facilities to families of labourers engaged in construction activities in the national capital. 'It has been decided that departments of health and education would provide medical care and education facilities to labourers for which the department of labour will release funds from Delhi Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Fund,' said an official statement.

April 21st, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Soaring mercury level has made life miserable for people in Orissa as they grapple with the heat wave. The temperature hovered around 40 degree Celsius in the state, with some parts like the western region of the state recording a temperature of 43 to 44 degree Celsius.

April 8th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The Nationalist Congress Party alliance with the Left parties and the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Orissa is 'only Orissa-specific', NCP chief Sharad Pawar said here Wednesday. 'Our arrangement is only Orissa-specific,' Pawar told a press conference, addressed jointly with Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury and BJD chief Naveen Patnaik.

March 27th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) led by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Friday announced several sops for farmers and youths if it retains power in the next month's assembly elections in Orissa. The 40-page manifesto released by Patnaik here announced that the party would provide free electricity to farmers as well as farm loans at interests as low as three percent.

March 20th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram today assured Orissa Government to provide adequate security for the smooth conduct of polls in the State.

March 2nd, 2009 RAIPUR - Chhattisgarh has heightened security along railway tracks in Maoist-hit districts following recent attacks by the rebels on rail facilities in Orissa and Bihar, police said Monday. 'Security at rail tracks and railway stations has been tightened after the attacks by Maoists on rail facilities in neighbouring Orissa and Bihar states,' Pawan Deo, deputy inspector general at the police headquarters here, told IANS.

January 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - An NGO has taken the Delhi Metro to court alleging it had failed to provide drinking water and toilet facilities for commuters. A petition before the Delhi High Court, filed by Voice of India, has said that it had last year sent a representation to the Delhi government and Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) seeking basic facilities in the Metro trains but got no satisfactory reply from them.