Climate change will have significant negative human rights impacts, especially on the world's poorest people. It will exacerbate issues like mass migration, worsening health crises, and loss of livelihoods and culture. While climate change policies have not sufficiently considered human rights, viewing climate change through a human rights lens can help address its impacts and manage responses in a way that respects people's basic rights and needs. Odisha is particularly vulnerable to climate change effects like stronger cyclones, floods and droughts that threaten lives, livelihoods and development. Considering human rights and building community resilience are important for addressing the challenges people face.

1. Climate change is likely to increase mass migration, to put increasing strain on health
systems due to an increased incidence of disease, threaten food and water security, and
lead to loss of shelter, land, livelihoods and culture, not to mention the threat of conflict.
However, the climate change debate has, so far, given little attention to human rights
aspects. The most severe effects of climate change will occur in the poorest countries, which
frequently have weak human rights protections. It is critical that human rights criteria are
included in climate change planning and policies.
The International Council On Human Rights Policy (ICHRP) has jointly published a new book
'Human Rights and Climate Change' with Cambridge University Press which examines the
human rights dimensions of climate change. It considers the questions raised by climate
change policies, such as accountability for extraterritorial harms; constructing reliable
enforcement mechanisms; assessing redistribution outcomes; and allocating burdens,
benefits, rights and duties among perpetrators and victims, both public and private
There will be more natural catastrophes in future. But these will not always involve horrific
headlines and images of hurricanes and tsunamis. More commonly and will be cumulative
and unspectacular. People who are already vulnerable will be disproportionately affected.
Slowly and incrementally, land will become too dry to till, crops will wither, rising sea levels
will undermine coastal dwellings and spoil freshwater, species will disappear, livelihoods will
vanish. Occasional cataclysms will exacerbate these trends. Mass migration and conflicts will
result. Climate change will, in short, have immense human consequences..
Human rights law is relevant because climate change causes human rights violations. But a
human rights lens can also be helpful in approaching and managing climate change. The
human rights framework reminds that climate change is about suffering – about the human
misery that results directly from the damage we are doing to nature.
Many communities already feel the adverse effects of warming temperatures – yet so far few
remedies are available. Climate change already threatens the livelihoods of peoples in
distant corners of the world, from North Alaska to the Pacific islands. It is contributing to
rising prices for grains and staples that are undermining food security for millions, particularly
in countries with unstable weather patterns. It poses a profound threat to development in
states that currently lack the resources to fulfil basic human rights. The scope of these
problems – and of the action required to treat – reach beyond previous human challenges.
Climate change shows up countless weaknesses in our current institutional architecture,
including its human rights mechanisms.
Fear, Risk, Stress, Shocks, Trauma, Worries, Threats, Hazards, Conflicts, Drudgery,
Imbalances, Speculations, vulnerabilities are getting accelerated due to recent climate
changing chaos. Despite there are severe threats of floods cyclones, coastal erosion,
inundation, heat wave, flash floods, distress migration and hunger, enormous
opportunity are there to regenerate revive, and rejuvenate the fragmented livelihoods
through consorted actions and initiatives with regard to human adaptation and
regional resilience capability. The has come to concerted action in mobilizing mainstream
resources with value added initiatives that will complement and supplement the initiates of
government, CSOs, institutions to carry forward broad based human adaptation initiatives.
Fundamental human rights and freedoms are described in the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights as” freedom from fear and want” has been proclaimed as the highest
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“Accelerating Citizen Action on Community Resilience”
Linking Governance-Gender-Livelihoods-Climate Justice:
Rights based Perspective in Odisha

2. aspiration of the common people, (http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/)The declaration
further proclaims that every one as a member of society.. is entitled to realization, through
national and international cooperation and in accordance with the organizations and
resources of each state, of the economic and social and cultural rights indispensable for
dignity and free development of personality. Human Rights standards offer a valuable
perspective with which to understand the impacts of climate change on the world’s most
vulnerable people. And this has clarified the obligations of states both collectively and
individually, to minimize that results from climate change and help vulnerable people and
community adapt to its inevitable effects. Office of High commissioner for Human Rights has
established that “looking at climate change vulnerability and adaptive capacity in human
rights terms, highlights the importance of analyzing power relationships addressing
underlying causes of inequality, discrimination and gives particular attention to marginalized
and vulnerable communities of societies especially people living in poverty, climatic
variances, livelihoods resilience.
Vulnerability the degree to which people are susceptible to the adverse impacts of climate
change i.e level of resilience and capacity to cope of community. Persons living in a
developing country faced 79 times greater risks of being affected by climate induced disaster
.262 million people affected by climate disasters annually from 2000 to2004 over 98 percent
were living in the developing world.
Reality realization:
91% disasters in 2009 due to weather Half of these disasters — mainly storms and
floods — have taken place in Asia, a UN study sayshttp://igovernment.in/site/91-
disasters-2009-due-weather-36305
Climate change disproportionately affects those living in extreme poverty. Further
undermining their ability to live their lives in dignity, Rising sea level, increasing ocean and
surface temperature and extreme weather events like storms, droughts and cyclones are felt
most acutely in poorest countries of the world and amongst the poorest and most
marginalized.
People living in poverty are less able to prepare for, or adapt to, climate change effects on
the associability and availability of food, drinking water, sanitation adequate housing and
health care. A growing number of people will face disproportionate and loss of their homes
and livelihoods which may also result in increased social unrest.
This year, the uniting theme for the International Day for the Eradication
Almost 50% of the population in the sub-Saharan region of Africa lives on under $1 a day.In
Nicaragua, 45.1% of the population lives on less than $1 a day.
In India, the number of people living under $1.25 a day increased from 421 million in 1981 to
456 million in 2005.
http://www.zeenews.com/news599578.html
Washington: India and China rank 123rd and 121st in pollution control
respectively, reflecting the strain rapid economic growth imposes on the environment,
according to the 2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI). Developing countries can
shift to lower-carbon paths while promoting development and reducing poverty, but this
depends on financial and technical assistance from high-income countries, says World
Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change
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3. Orissa and climate Change
Solar influence
over
climate change
Sea level rise -
Coastal inundation
Temperature
Rise and Heat
Wave
Variability in
monsoons –
affecting crop
production And
Drought
Distress
migration
• Increased Extremist and Conflicts
• Increased degrading of Natural resource base
• Increase in Human & Other Life form stress, fear,
health hazards
Extreme Weather and
unforeseen floods and
droughts
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2010/Resources/5287678-
1226014527953/WDR10-Full-Text.pdf
There are several studies have made as both climate change and extreme poverty are
human rights matter .It considers seriously full realization of many in addressing to respect,
protect and fulfill human rights and resilience.
http://typo3.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/fsn/docs/The_Governance_of_Hunger__AM__JLV
__FINAL__3_.pdf
Hence there are following few basic thrusts on human rights ad climate justice:
• “Freedom from Hunger” and right to food in a changing climate
• Right to Health in wetter and warmer condition
• Civil and political rights in climate constrained community
• Displacement, adequate housing /shelter and human rights in degraded and
unstable environment
• Obligation to respect and protect :mitigation and adaptation for most vulnerable to
impacts of climate change
• Citizen action and community resilience to full fill the human rights in the context of
climate change
• Harnessing Green growth for the realization of Human Rights
• Linking Governance-Gender-Livelihoods-Climate Justice: as people matter
The relevance of the concept in the Odisha context:
“Floods, Droughts, Cyclones, Earth quakes, Tornadoes, Heat waves, Village fire,
lightening, Distressed Migrations, Environmental Hazards, foeticides, trafficking
Extremists”: What Next?
“If ever a concept called disaster tourism is to catch fancy of those bitten by wander bug,
then Odisha certainly will be the number one destination”.
Odisha unfortunately is in the path way of depressions and cyclones formed in the Bay of
Bengal during south west monsoon. With advance in global warming and climate change if
sea storms acquire greater
destructive power as is being
forecast, the state will be
required to bear the brunt of
such storms which means all
the gains of development will
be washed away in
flood/storms waters. According
to the state government’s
Human Development Report
2004, property loss has been
steadily growing every year
over the past few decades.
Droughts and floods will be
accelerated resulted in Food
insecurity, starvation deaths,
dreadful diseases, distress
migration will be manifold.
http://epaper.hindustantimes.com/
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4. http://www.hindustantimes.com/Chronic-hunger-kills-50-in-Orissa-district/H1-Article1-
512211.aspx
• Chronic hunger kills 50 in Orissa district
Nine-year-old Ram Prasad Bariha saw his brother, sister and mother die within a month —
September 2009. His father, Jhintu Bariha (42), followed a month later.
The dreaded Kalahandi-Balangir-Koraput (KBK) belt of Orissa is yet to come out of the
starvation-migration-death cycle. It accounts for 71 per cent of the state’s families below
poverty line (BPL).
https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/12608ef2e0b8ca8cOrissa to reduce
• High malaria mortality rate
The malaria mortality rate came down to 15 per cent till July 2009. But the mortality rate is
still high, as about 239 died last year. We are aiming to reduce the mortality in the next five
years," Health and Family Welfare Minister of Orissa Prasanna Acharya said.
• High mortality rate worries govt
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/High-mortality-
The state has witnessed a fall in birth rate between 2002 and 2008. At the same time, the
infant mortality rate (IMR) has gone up. According to the Population Foundation of India
(PFI), crude birth rate has come down from 23.2 in 2002 to 21.4 in 2008, while the state has
second highest IMR in the country with 69 per 1,000 live births.
Even after the passage of 62 years of independence, people continue to struggle with the
problems of deprivation and powerlessness.
The extremity of the degree and
implications of poverty is experienced by the
situation that forces the people to live within
a constant state of impoverishment, in
circumstances where their most basic
human rights, entitlements are need to
rethink.
The intensity and frequency of droughts and
floods appear to be increasing every year
with declining vegetation and ground water
availability followed by increasing of flash
floods. There is media reporting that these
regions are slowly moving towards
desertification. . Thus, under the changing
climatic situation (arising as a result of
natural phenomena and or outcomes of
human made developments), the
relationship between ecology and
sustenance has been badly affected
“Perpetual hunger, perennial drought
,uneven rainfall, climatic variability,
continuous crop failure, malnutrition,
depletion of natural resource base,
squeezed food basket, skewed land
distribution, inadequate institutional linkages
and infrastructure, inadequate bargaining power etc. count amongst the primary concerns of
western/tribal districts in particular and Odisha in general. ” Risk and vulnerability is getting
compounded due to devastating natural, social, physical, economical and environmental
capital, combined with poor political representation followed by nutritional and health hazards
causing to disrupting the livelihoods that causes distress migration, child sale and women
trafficking with rampant social, mental and physical abuse
• HDI Failed in Odisha:
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Living with Environmental Change: Our planet faces
unprecedented change. If we continue on our
current path, by the end of this century, or earlier,
our environment will be in a state that modern
humans have never experienced. In parts of the
world, supplies of food and water will be at risk and
flood defences stretched

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Providing proper atmosphere to ensure decent living of the citizens, access to knowledge,
health, food and nutritional security are benchmarks for sound Human Development Index
(HDI) ratings of a State.
• But Orissa, it seems, has failed miserably in discharging the necessary obligations if
the latest District- Level Household and Facility Survey- 3
(DLHS) 2007-08 is taken into consideration. The findings reveal that 15 of
the 30 districts in Orissa have over 80 per cent of households with low
standards of living.
The report card is quite grim with a total of 18 districts having a high of
over 50 per cent households as BPL cardholders. As many as eight districts
have over 60 per cent households as BPL cardholders
• This natural endowment has not at all benefited the broad masses of Odisha, the
farmers, urban and rural poor, Adivasis and large number of unemployed Oriya youth. It is
one of the poorest states in India in a wide variety of socio-economic indicators. It has the
lowest per capita income and very high below poverty level compared to all-India average.
Odisha’s Human Development Index compared with other states is 27.
• The Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) indicates Odisha’s per capita income
according to the prices of the year 2003 was Rs.12,388.00 while the all-India average per
capita income was Rs.23,359.00. The census for the year 2001 indicates that while the
people below poverty level were 26.10%, in Odisha it is 47.15%. Suresh Tendulkar
committee puts Odisha BPL – 57.2 and all-India – 37.2% BPL, the Saxena Committee puts
Odisha – 84.47%, for all-India – 50%.
• In the year 2008, the all-India maternal mortality rate was 254 per thousand, while in
Odisha it was 303 per thousand.
• Life expectancy for India in the year was 62.3 years for males and 63.9 for females,
while for Odisha it is 57.6 for males and 57.8 for females. These figures were given in a reply
by the Union Health Ministry in Rajya Sabha.
• Odisha’s literacy rate is also lower than the national average. For all-India it is
64.84%, while for Odisha it is 63.08% according to the 2001 census.
• Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Bihar account for the
highest infant mortality rate; in Odisha, in the year 2003 according to UNICEF it was 57 per
thousand births, which is one of highest in India. 65% of infant and neo-natal mortality rate in
India, over 46% children under five years in Odisha are malnourished. Chronic poverty is
rampant in a broad majority of Orissa’s population.
• The poverty level is 85% in the southern region in Orissa. An overwhelming majority
of the Adivasis, Dalits and large majority of rural labourers, small and marginal farmers,
suffer from chronic poverty and malnutrition. Unemployment and under-employment are very
high in Odisha i.e., 8%, while for India it was 6.80% in the year 2009.
• The development policy pursued by successive government in Odisha after
Independence produced massive poverty and displacement in Odisha. The National
Advisory Council estimates 90 lakh people have been displaced from different development
projects in Odisha.
• Odisha leads in the country for labour migration - due to chronic poverty, and
unemployment, millions migrate from Odisha to other states and metropolitan centres..
• Starvation deaths have been reported from west and southern Odisha, especially
from the infamous KBK districts (Undivided Koraput-Bolangir-Kalahandi districts), the recent
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6. news item of Hindustan Times reporting 50 people dying of starvation, has made it into a
central issue of Odisha.
• .the widespread failure of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment
Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) later. Poverty, malnutrition, migration, starvation deaths and
recently farmers' suicide have all become the hallmark of the western and southern districts
of Odisha, including districts like Keonjhar, Kandhmal, Gajpati and Sundergarh, which are
predominantly tribal. In these districts thousands die every year due to gastroenteritis,
diarrhea, cholera, malaria and tuberculosis, under-nutrition, infant mortality and maternal
mortality, anemia is among the highest in the country. The main cause is chronic poverty in
these districts.
• A glaring example is the malaria and cholera deaths in Kashipur Block of Rayagada
district, which comes in the K.B.K. region. Kashipur Block also has a high level bauxite
deposit.
• Destructive development projects, mines and the timber mafia are responsible for
large-scale deforestation in Odisha. In the year 2005 Survey of India estimated 48,000 acres
of forestland, 31% of the geographical area out of this 28,000 is dense forest and 20,000
acres are degraded and due to various mine, dam and development projects and
deforestation further degraded the land areas totally shattering their food security..
• Central Schemes like National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is
not up to mark here due to corruption and lack of political will.
• Climate kills Orissa farmers :
Farmers' Suicide and Agrarian Crisis in Odisha
Around 43 farmers have committed suicide in Odisha since 9 months. This indicates a
severe agrarian crisis has gripped Odisha.Though farmers' suicide has been reported
throughout the state including coastal districts,. These deaths are caused due to various
factors, neoliberal policies, indebtedness, loss of access to land degradation, water sources,
forest, distress sale, etc and total lack of access to water resources and forests. Exploitative
and insecure land tenures are a big factor in agrarian distress and farmers' suicide.
• Mining and Displacement
Mining and displacement caused by mega projects like big dams and senseless
industrialization is one of the most important factors in the present predicament of Odisha.
Indoctrinate mining has caused widespread deforestation, soil erosion and degradation, and
drying up of water sources.
Displacement
A conservative estimate puts the number of displaced people from Independence to the
end of the millennium at about 1 crore. It is overwhelming! It is one-fourth of the present
population of Odisha. Almost 80% of the people displaced are Adivasis and Dalits.. Infact,
the Adivasis are the biggest losers
Source – Kundan Kumar “Dispossessed and displaced: A brief paper on tribal issues in
Orissa." epgorissa.orgApril 2007.
• Odisha is having among the fastest rate of desertification. The ISRO study that
he has referred to was a part of India’s commitment to the UNCCD, signed in 1997, where
the signatory countries were mandated to conduct ‘desertification monitoring and
assessment’. The Indian government had entrusted the ISRO to conductthat study.“Orissa is
among the top FOUR states that are on track of desertification”. In fact the report has not (at
least those which have been published till now) at all expressly stated anything
verysignificant or startling with reference to Orissa.
• Compiled by <mailto:se-drm@solutionexchange-un.net.in> G Padmanabhan,,
We all are aware of India's vulnerability to natural disasters because of its unique geo-
climatic conditions. Floods, droughts, cyclones, earthquakes and landslides are recurrent
phenomena. About 60% of the landmass is prone to earthquakes of various intensities; over
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7. 40 million hectares is prone to floods; about 8% of the total area is prone to cyclones; 68% of
the area is susceptible to drought; and about 30 million people are affected by disasters
every year.
• Oissa forest http://www.ofsdp.org/aboutus.htm
The existing forest cover in Orissa is 48,366 km2. Out of the area having forest cover,
20,196 km2 have crown density of less than 40%, which would require treatment for
regeneration and reforestation. The degradation of forest has resulted into the vicious
poverty cycle wherein absence of livelihood options encouraged the local people for more
and more removal of forest produce in unsustainable manner leading further degradation of
forest with spread of poverty and unemployment..
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Mineral production value up in State
11-Dec-09
BHUBANESWAR: Mineral output has begun to play a crucial role in strengthening the
State’s financial health. Despite a fall in the number of reporting mines in the year 2007-08 to
227 from 233 in 2006-07, the value of mineral production in Orissa has increased by a
national high of 29 per cent.
A
Climate change talks bring focus on State
10-Dec-09
BHUBANESWAR: The Copenhagen summit on climate change has brought to focus the
vulnerability of Orissa particularly as it has embarked on a path that entails development
through fast paced industrialisation. For, the State is highly prone to climatic aberrations and
in the last 105 years as many as
Health indicators not so rosy for State
05-Dec-09
BHUBANESWAR: Crude death rate (CDR), infant mortality rate (IMR) and maternal mortality
rate (MMR) mirror the health of a state. And, Orissa has a mixed result on these fronts,
reveals the recently released Sample Registration System-2008 (SRS-08) by the Registrar
General of India (RGI).
It puts
Poverty, illiteracy impeding awareness levels in
03-Dec-09
BHUBANESWAR: The society’s awareness levels are gauged by the quantum of media
exposure it has. Orissa fares no good on this aspect too.
The recent WHO report on `Reproductive health of young in India’ is a revelation in this
connection.
About 43.5 per cent of the population here has no knowl
Orissa: Low in prevalence, high in vulnerability
01-Dec-09
BHUBANESWAR: Orissa might have low prevalence as far as HIV/AIDS is concerned but is
highly vulnerable. Around 18 districts have the attributes to propel HIV spread and seven
already marked under category A.
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8. But the prevention and control mechanisms are still to deliver effectively.
Despite t
Health infrastructure lacks in basics
29-Nov-09
BHUBANESWAR: Can a health centre function without supply of water, electricity and, most
importantly, lab technicians? Well, it is in Orissa.
Consider this. As high as 35 per cent of health sub-centres that form the backbone of village
health care delivery apparatus function without regular supp
Lack of political commitment playing havoc
25-Nov-09
BHUBANESWAR: Notwithstanding the Government’s invitation to the National Institute of
Rural Development to conduct social audits to curb corruption in NREGA implementation,
transparency and monitoring are still a major deterrent to proper functioning of the
programme in Orissa.
An evaluation stu
`Shoddy works undermined NREGA’ http://nrega.nic.in/netnrega/home.aspx
22-Nov-09
BHUBANESWAR: The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) has failed to
achieve its set objectives in Orissa, an evaluation study on NREGA by the National Council
of Applied Economic Research and Public Interest Foundation (NCAER-PIF) has concluded.
Hailed as panacea for the poor states l
Urban areas fare no better
18-Nov-09
BHUBANESWAR: Rural parts of Orissa, undoubtedly, have the highest deprivation. But, do
urban areas fare better? The answer is an emphatic `no’ if the determinants are any
indication.
Lack of adequate urban development can be ascertained by the fact that the average per
capita water supply in suc
Secondary education gasping for breath
15-Nov-09
BHUBANESWAR: With all attention focused on improving primary education for achieving
universalisation of education, the secondary education sector seems to have fallen off pace.
Dogged by myriad problems from poor infrastructure to high dropout rates, secondary
education in the State has begun to g
No integrated scheme in State to protect kids
14-Nov-09
BHUBANESWAR: Every two of three children in the 5-12 age group are physically abused in
India. A whopping 70 percent of the abusers are none other than the fathers themselves
followed by the policemen at 26 percent.
Disturbing as it may appear, the revelation has come from a nationwide survey co
VOID
09-Nov-09
BHUBANESWAR: Agriculture in Orissa is a gamble of monsoon. To insulate itself from the
uncertainties, the State needs to focus on a long-term investment strategy. But the State
Government seems to have other ideas. It has invested more in its loss-making public sector
undertakings thereby allowing
Capital expenditure on agriculture declining
09-Nov-09
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9. BHUBANESWAR: Agriculture in Orissa is a gamble of monsoon. To insulate itself from the
uncertainties, the State needs to focus on a long-term investment strategy. But the State
Government seems to have other ideas. It has invested more in its loss-making public sector
undertakings thereby allowing
Quantum leap in subscriber base
04-Nov-09
BHUBANESWAR: In 1997, when Soura Gamang came to Bhubaneswar from a remote
Koraput village and landed up with a job here, his joy knew no bounds.
But the elation soon gave way to frustration as he was unable to convey the good news to
his family in the village. It took him over five days to be ab
Delays dent ‘brand Orissa’ image
29-Oct-09
BHUBANESWAR: For the State Government, the adage ‘haste makes waste’ is beginning to
prove true. The latest Assocham Eco-Pulse report has revealed that undue delay in solving
the land acquisition problems for mega projects like ArcelorMittal, Posco and Tata have
dented its ‘brand Orissa’ image.
Low thrift rate hits capital formation
27-Oct-09
BHUBANESWAR: For sound economic growth, increase in rate of capital formation is
imperative. Domestic savings is an instrument that results in increased rate of capital
formation. But Orissa performs miserably on this front.
The recently released list of proactive States in savings by the Nation
Crop failure pushes farmers to debt and death
23-Oct-09
BHUBANESWAR: The sudden rise in incidence of suicide by farmers in rainfed regions of
the State that are hit by drought has a pattern to it.
The scores of farmer suicides that shook the nation about four years back were reported
from the rainfed and drought-hit regions of Maharashtra, Andhra Pra
Chronic unemployment triggering migration
17-Oct-09
BHUBANESWAR: The recently released Human Development Report-2009 has positioned
Orissa among the top five states in the country by virtue of largescale migration of unskilled
workers. Along with it, it has brought focus on the most important aspect of low development
indices in the state that has w
Orissa languishes at bottom in hunger parameters
16-Oct-09
BHUBANESWAR: Despite all pro-poor policies and much-hyped food programmes of the
State Government, Orissa continues to languish at the bottom rung of the hunger
parameters.
The State stood 66th along with countries like Nigeria and Kenya in the Global Hunger
Index-2008 measured by the Internatio
Orissa poor in human development index
12-Oct-09
BHUBANESWAR: Providing proper atmosphere to ensure decent living of the citizens,
access to knowledge, health, food and nutritional security are benchmarks for sound Human
Development Index (HDI) ratings of a State.
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10. Special Economic Zones in State are non-starters
10-Oct-09
BHUBANESWAR: Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in Orissa are fast assuming the status of
`special embattled zones’, for the very fact that most of them have been rendered non-
starters. As a result, the State has fallen far behind its counterparts in terms of execution of
the projects.
The recent Pri
IIM unravels irrigation woes
07-Oct-09
BHUBANESWAR: How does the ‘aam kissan’ in Orissa evaluate the irrigation scenario and
the benefits it has brought to him? Not very highly spoken of. A glance at the recent farmers’
survey report submitted to the Centre by the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow,
unravels the ills and discrepanc
State failed on micro-irrigation front: Report
05-Oct-09
BHUBANESWAR: The focus of the 11th Plan is on exploiting micro irrigation to achieve the
twin objectives of prudent water utilization-cum-increase in irrigation coverage. The plan has
set a target of 15 million hectare to be covered nationally under the micro irrigation (MI)
schemes.
Micro irrig
State failed on micro-irrigation front: Report
05-Oct-09
BHUBANESWAR: The focus of the 11th Plan is on exploiting micro irrigation to achieve the
twin objectives of prudent water utilization-cum-increase in irrigation coverage. The plan has
set a target of 15 million hectare to be covered nationally under the micro irrigation (MI)
schemes.
Micro irrig
Irrigation system in deep water
03-Oct-09
BHUBANESWAR: Orissa’s irrigation system is plagued with one thousand and one ills.
There is a huge gap of around 40 percent between the irrigation potential created (IPC) at
around 28 lakh hectare and the irrigation potential utilised (IPU) at around 17 lakh hectare as
of June 30 last year. Combine
Diabetes, heart attack dog elderly people
02-Oct-09
BHUBANESWAR: Even as the world observes the Elderly Day today, there is nothing to
cheer about the old in Orissa. For the elderly population in the State, the risks associated
with old age are more pronounced than in other parts of the country.
With lack of focus on ailments like diabetes, cardi
State has wherewithal to discharge obligation?
09-Sep-09
BHUBANESWAR: With the Right to Education Act coming into force from August, the onus
is now on Orissa to provide education to all. But, the moot question is can Orissa discharge
the responsibility? As per an assessment by Centre, despite allocation of Rs 90,000 crore by
Centre to operationalise the
Literacy rate looking up
08-Sep-09
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11. BHUBANESWAR: Literally, Orissa has made a good progress in putting up a decent literacy
rate. The State’s male literacy rate of 90 per cent in urban areas, according to the latest
National Sample Survey (NSS) report, has surpassed the national average of 89.4 per cent.
Urban female literacy rate of
Fruit prices to dampen festive spirit
07-Sep-09
BHUBANESWAR: With the advent of autumn, the festival season has commenced. But the
festive mood this season is going to be quite sombre, thanks to the astronomical prices of
fruits.
In the `mandis’ of Orissa, apples of low quality are being quoted at Rs 50 a kg, grapes at Rs
50-70, pomegranates
Coastal dists to witness more rainfall during
05-Sep-09
BHUBANESWAR: Even as a severe drought grips the country, Orissa seems to be among
the handful of states to have emerged safe. About 15 districts have received excess and
another around 10 districts netted normal rainfall till August. Is it because of a magnanimous
monsoon that despite a delay has s
Neta-babu nexus helps corruption grow
31-Aug-09
BHUBANESWAR: High decibel proclamations against `zero tolerance’ to corruption
notwithstanding, the canker continues to eat into the system in Orissa.
As of March 31, 2008, the State reported a whopping 1,820 cases of official corruption
involving around Rs 1,722 lakh.
Till March 31, 2007, ab
Erratic rain: Govt must ensure food security
29-Aug-09
BHUBANESWAR: The inconsistent monsoon seems to have clouded the food security issue
of the common man. The country is going to see a 10 million tonne fall in rice output this
kharif season with Orissa being a significant contributor to reduced productivity.
The situation in Orissa is going to be
No prudent investments by Govt to combat high un
28-Aug-09
BHUBANESWAR: Despite all claims of development and improvement in lives of the people,
Orissa’s per capita income is Rs 16,195 at only 67 per cent of the national average of Rs
24,256. This has been solely effected by the State’s failure in maintaining a proper
proportion between rate of increase i
No sops to farmers for lack of drought tag
27-Aug-09
BHUBANESWAR: Even as Orissa seems to have just about skirted the drought that has
taken large parts of the country under its grip, the scenario is not very pleasant. Though
none of the districts in Orissa has been declared drought-affected, the ground data and
rainfall distribution project a pictur
Unemployment in state set to grow
19-Aug-09
BHUBANESWAR: With no appropriate policies in place to combat the global meltdown,
Orissa is all set to see a quantum leap in unemployment in the coming days. The recently
released survey on `Global slowdown and impact on employment’ of the Union Labour
Ministry for the period April to June 2009 has
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12. Parliamentary panel suggestions, IBM provisions
13-Aug-09
BHUBANESWAR: The recent exposures on illegal mining in Orissa has posed some harsh
questions to the State Government. They generate from the fact that in 2006, Orissa had
been listed among the 10 states witnessing large-scale illegal mining. The list was drawn by
none other than the 19th Parliament
Kendriya Bhandars need of the hour
11-Aug-09
BHUBANESWAR: Despite all claims of negative inflation, the steep price-levels of food
grains and essential commodities have begun to gore into the vitals of the common man,
with the poorer sections being the worst affected.
At these trying times the Kendriya Bhandars, community marts, establishe
Per capita consumption of pulses declines
09-Aug-09
BHUBANESWAR: While the Government seemingly content after harvesting rich over the Rs
2-a-kg rice scheme, the very `pulse’ of the nutrition security seems to be at stake in Orissa.
At around Rs 90 a kg in the retail market, spiralling prices of pulses has robbed the aam
admi of the most potent nutr
Woman chosen as key player in population control
11-Jul-09
BHUBANESWAR: With the theme “Investing in Women is a Smart Choice” for the World
Population Day tomorrow, the United Nations Population Fund Agency (UNPFA) has
significantly chosen woman as the key player in controlling the population.
The objective is to provide a conducive atmosphere and make
Rajiv Awaz Yojana will benefit State
07-Jul-09
BHUBANESWAR: The 2009-10 general budget presented by Union Finance Minister Pranab
Mukherjee has some significant direct policy interventions for the marginal sections of
society that are going to serve the interests of the State in a pronounced way.
Bhubaneswar: Child Migration and Education-The National Commission on Rural
Labour in India (NCRL, 1991) estimates more than 10 million regular seasonal migrants in
the rural areas alone in the country. These include an estimated 4.5 million inter- state
migrants and 6 million migrants moving within the state, primarily landless vulnerable social
groups. However informal estimates put the total number close to 30 million out of which 6
million constitute children. Studies and field evidence suggests that children accompanying
their parents in the 0-14 age group may constitute one third of the total migrant population
and put the number of migrant children below 14 years close to 6 - 9 million.
Aide et Action South Asia, an international NGO, conducted a survey on incidence of child
migration in three districts of Western Orissa comprising Bolangir, Nuapada and Bargarh.
The study covered 5 Blocks in the three districts. From each of the villages with high
incidence of migration, 30 families having regular seasonal migration were chosen as
sample for the study. The study covered a total population of 5380, out of which 4084 (76
percent) migrate.
Only 9% of households use tap water in State
PNS | Bhubaneswar
http://www.dailypioneer.com/251953/Only-9-of-households-use-tap-water-in-State.html
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13. Even as the first phase of the census is on in the State, Director of Census Operations in
Odisha, Bishnupada Sethi, is busy in digging out interesting information on people. After a lot
of research, Sethi has found out some interesting factual data.
In India 37 per cent of the total households use tap water, while in Odisha only 9 per cent of
households have the same facility. Only 2.76 per cent households of Kalahandi and 2.65 per
cent households of Nabaragapur get drinking water from tap.
"The key findings presented in the Odisha review report clearly spell out that livelihoods,
ecology and economics share a strong organic bondage. Under the changing climatic
situation (arising as a result of natural phenomena and or outcomes of man made
developments), the relationship between the two has been badly affected causing disastrous
harms to human lives, livelihoods and property.
A lot is being talked about the causes of disasters, technical know-how on disaster
management and rehabilitation. But, developing understanding on existing coping
mechanisms at the community level and then propagation of this understanding at a broader
level has remained an area of neglect. Keeping this in view, it is highly important to integrate
mainstream development programs for the lasting solution to human adaptation relating to
livelihoods in rural and urban and Biodiversity Conservation as a process (access, avail,
utilize the resources, implement& maintain) to vulnerability adaptation to climate change
variability. Further, temperature hike in Nuapada, Titlagada, Sambalpur, Jharsuguda,
Keonjhar, Jajpur, Angul and Bhubaneswar are considered the hottest places during summer
especially mid April to May. Floods, Droughts, Cyclones and Heat waves are many more
accelerating. Hence, Rich State Odisha is in the backward category due to recurrent natural
disasters. Equally distress migration, hunger is also very common in western and northern
parts. Food insecurity, starvation has resulted distressed migration and trafficking and
bring more dreadful diseases.
Climate variability contributes significantly to poverty and food insecurity. Proactive
approaches to managing climate variability within vulnerable rural communities and among
institutions operating at community, sub-national, and national levels is a crucial step
towards achieving the Millennium Development Goal of eradicating extreme poverty and
hunger.
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14. Climate change Issue in Odisha as an opportunity to accelerate Community Resilience
Process and come up with a citizen action form Human rights Perspective:
Since Climate Change and Poverty is global phenomena, in realty this has a greater impact
at the local at community in relation to survival security, social security, economical security,
environmental security and sustainability. Odisha is the hub of disasters.
In this backdrop, utilizing ecologically sensitive alternative methods of income diversification
(using water, land, people and adaptive methods of treatment and maintenance of
resources) can help to achieve important prerequisites for reducing poverty , distress
migration, economical viability and environmental sustainability, reducing the financial
burden on government with an enterprise mode .
The proposal would make a sincere effort to summarize all ongoing developmental schemes
and make aware the eligible communities with simplified and easily understood steps to
access to, pool and leverage these schemes. Improved management of climate variability
has appealing synergies with other interventions that target hunger and poverty, including
production and productivity, gearing greening, soil fertility management, small-scale water
management, markets, and extension and communication systems in minimizing the fear
and worries with solid engagement of state and CSOs.
Further, following are key areas need to address the human adaptation & resilience
initiatives:
• Survival Security( addressing Poverty, health problems especially of women and child,
absorption of distress migration, , Employment generation at community level)
• Social Security (access and avail to social security programs for all sections, village
safety nets and productive assets creation integrating ongoing development programs,
grooming community level institutions and community empowerment and entitlement
process , inclusion of social exclusion, demand driven work generate for community
infrastructures
• Financial security (Group initiatives, small business development initiatives, micro-
linkages with intermediary institutions for vending , capacity building and economic activity)
• Environmental sustainability (energy plantations , nutrition plantations, ,water, land and
forest resource restoration and rehabilitation, awareness generation for climate variability
and change adaptation, inclusion of school children on environmental stabilization .
Project Goal/Purpose;
Accelerate community level action and initiatives linking governance-disaster-Gender-
livelihoods to reduce vulnerability and drudgery of at-risk communities at local level from
Human rights perspective.
Objectives:
 Accelerating community resilience process with a grater inclusion and partnership
 Inclusion of Women as leaders to take responsibility for community resilience
process
 Incorporate community resilient plan, safety nets at GP level linking Governance &
livelihoods
 Enable the community to access benefits of government and non-govt schemes,
 Improve quality of life and reduce marginalization, distress migration linkage of
families and welfare of economic excludes
 Enable local community to have economic and ecological gains through self
empowerment process
 Acknowledge enhancement of social justice where livelihood security, food security
and entitlement benefits
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15.  Make their best coping mechanism ensured and enlarged at local to live with
dignity, safety net for energy conservation and use of adaptive eco restoration for
vulnerability reduction to disaster , climatic changes and global warming
Program components:
Citizen action, Policy Advocacy, Sensitization,:
Accelerating sustainable Agriculture and conserving bio-diversity
Ecosystem based Micro- Water initiatives
Life Cycle based Skill training
Strengthening Networks and Alliance building:
protecting & Creating productive assets
Promotion of renewable energy
Undertaking waste management reducing health exigencies and hazards
Development Communications:
Innovative community based assets creations links to human interests
Ultra-poor Initiatives and livelihoods resilience
Methodology
Further, this is a inclusion of smaller CBOs, NGOs and PRIs to accelerate the Linking-
Livelihoods and deepening grassroots governance for human adaptation to climate change
resilience, Hence, the social mobilization of the communities and leveraging resources will
be the cross cutting issue and will aim at improving their capacities in the long run through
participation and capacity building.
Expected Impact
• The project is with best of our effort, would empower community to:
Access to information: Informed communities will be better equipped to take advantage of
opportunities, access services, exercise their rights and entitlements, and hold state and
non-state actors accountable.
Inclusion/participation: Opportunities for vulnerable and other excluded groups to participate
in decision making are critical to ensure the usage of resources equitably and community
priorities
Local organizational capacity: The process equips communities and CBOs to plan and work
together to identify, prioritize and resolve issues relating to community resilience process.
This overall approach is aimed at empowering the vulnerable communities to participate,
negotiate, change, and hold accountable the institutions that affect their well-being and
improved capabilities in the long run..
• Make environmentally sound programs and culturally acceptable , economically
viable livelihood micro plans for their village
• Community be proactive to pursue with Govt and NGOs to converge available
schemes broadly with social and employment guarantee schemes and allied sectors which
covers almost all livelihood based activities
• Community capacity building and training to supervise the implementation of the
program help quality job assurance and Fixing Responsibility and accountability.
This will have an impact on
• Increased community demand for implementation of schemes to include and execute
economically and climatically viable activities as in micro plan
• Better social monitoring of the execution of schemes
• Motivate and sensitize community and policy holder for environmental sustainability
focusing livelihoods of vulnerable communities at risk
• Implementation of programs based on the gap
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16. Proposed Areas for community resilience process- Selected Gram panchayats in
coastal & tribal districts prone to vulnerability in terms of poverty and disasters affected
due to climate aberrations .
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