KIIT official sources said the institution climbed 200 places globally in the THE rankings. It is a significant improvement from last year when
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The state commerce and transport secretaryMadhu Sudan Padhihas asked all district collectors, SPs and regional transport officers to strictly comply with the directive of theSupreme Court Committeeon Road Safety. The transport department has laid Stress on the conduct of joint inspection of accident spots on regular basis from August 1.
The government said proper analysis of the accidents can be done once the Integrated Road Accident Database (IRAD) project in launched in Odisha. TheWorld Bankfunded project, which is being executed by theministry of road transportand highways across the
country, is aimed at analysing the causes of road accidents and devising measures to cut down the fatality rate. The ministry already rolled out the IT-based solution in six states Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Nadu and Madhya Pradesh.Odisha records highest human kills in 3 yrs
The April, May, June quarter of 2023, compared to last nine years,has seen a26 % rise in number of human- elephant encounters which resulted in more human kills and injuries than ever before,a rise of 50% above the highest human kills of last year.
According to Wildlife Society of Orissa secretary Dr Biswajit Mohanty, the escalating figures each year also indicate that elephants are straying out of their habitats more often due to huge levels of disturbances caused by quarries and crushers and night movement of trucks and tractors. There is also a lack of adequate forest fodder and amarked shift towards consumption of farm cropsand food grains stored inside villages.
Palm fruits which are their prime source of food during June and July havebecome scarce due to massive felling of palm
trees for inter-State trade to Nadu. Dhenkanal, Angul and Deogarh districts have lost thousands of palm trees since the last three years as organised timber traders camp there and decimate the trees.Dhenkanal has recorded a ten-fold jump in diversion of elephant habitat for black and laterite stone quarries, stone crushers and steel/power Plants between 2011 and 2021. The Wildlife Wing has failed to take any action in view of growing demands to shut down the quarries.
Odisha happens to have a dubious record of more number of human kills among all other States despite an elephant Population of 1,976 compared to Karnatakas 6,049, Assams 5,719, Keralas 3,054 and Tamil Nadus 2,761 as per the last national level census carried out in August, 2017.
Odisha No.1 among top food security achievers
Odishatops the maiden ranking for the implementation of theNational Act(NFSA), followed byUttar Pradeshand Andhra Pradesh among the 20 general category states and Union Territories (UTs).
The achievement comes close on the heels of chief ministerNaveen Patnaiksharing the state’s transformational progress in food security at theUN World Food Programmeheadquarters in Rome last month.WFPexecutive director David Beasley had
said Odisha’s success can provide Learning insights for other similarly placed countries.The states were assessed out of 45% for coverage, targeting and provisions of the Act, 50% for delivery
platform including allocation and movement and last-mile delivery and another 5% for Nutrition initiatives. The 14 special category states and UTs and three UTs operating in cash transfer mode were ranked in two other lists.