Truth in true form RNI Regd NO: ODIENG/2019/77780 BHUBANESWAR www.aroundodisha.com VOLUME - 2 ISSUE - 294 PRICE- Rs.2/- WEDNESDAY 19 MAY 2021 Punjab to give Rs 10 lakh 2 Odisha’s Dongaria Kondhs reject 3 ...............Pandemic has given Radhika Apte a 6 Shiva Sundar Das 7 grant to villages that ensure Covid tests, cases rise among new way to look at her career; she named Indian Women’s 100 per cent vaccination vulnerable tribals now wants to follow her instinct Batting Coach CM Naveen Approves Opening Of Dedicated Covid Hospital In Jajpur PM interacts with DMs of worst-hit districts on Covid management New Delhi, May 18: the administration. “I Prime Minister Narendra want to tell you… if you Modi on Tuesday held think that the govern- an online interaction with ment policy at the district chief ministers and dis- level needs innovation in trict magistrates of the the policy to strengthen districts that have been it, you have the freedom worst affected in the sec- to do so. If you think the ond wave of the innovation that you have pandemics, and asked made is good for the them to convey their best whole district or the practices to him so that country, it should be sent these can be shared to the government. If you widely. He also called think there is a need to the district administration make any change in the “field commanders” who policy, give us that feed- are in the frontline of the back also without any and adopting Covid ap- asked the states to en- visits them and supplies war against the pan- hesitation because the propriate behaviour,” he sure strict compliance to oxymeters or drugs. This demic. “All of you have war is such that we all said. He also called for Covid appropriate be- should be done at all dis- an important role in this need to think together attention to rural areas as havior, he said attention trict levels,” the PM said. Bhubaneswar, May 18: Multispeciality Hospital have 150 oxygenated war against Corona. You and innovate together,” well as in remote areas. should be given to “ease He said all preparations Chief Minister Naveen at Jajpur will serve as a beds and 50 ICU beds. are the field commander the PM said. In the wake “We have to ensure that of living” to ensure mini- must be made in states Patnaik has approved government Covid Hos- As a result, critically ill of this war in a way, who of complaints from states there is health infrastruc- mal inconvenience to where hospitals are the opening of a Dedi- pital where patients will patients in Jajpur and give shape to the policy, over the availability of ture to meet challenges... people, and called for scheduled to receive cated Covid Hospital in be able to receive free surrounding districts will and fight on the ground Covid vaccines, the PM this should be done on a action against those in- oxygen plants through Jajpur with private part- treatment. All medical no longer have to travel and take decisions ac- assured that there is a priority basis,” he said. volved in black market- the PM-CARES fund. nership for the treatment expenses will be borne to Cuttack or cording to the situation,” plan to ensure that states The PM said during the ing of critical medicines, Union home minister of Covid-19 patients. by the State Govern- Bhubaneswar for treat- he said. The PM re- get a 15-day advance first wave last year, many and equipment such as Amit Shah and health Bhoomika ment. The hospital will ment. ferred to local contain- schedule of available villages had devised their Remdesivir, oxygen con- secretary Rajesh ment zones, aggressive vaccine. “Vaccine wast- own best practices. “Last centrators, and oxygen Bhushan were also testing and providing age must be stopped and time, there was no cylinders. The PM also present in the meeting correct and complete in- optimum utilisation is a lockdown of the farming instructed the adminis- with the CM’s from Bhubaneswar: Minor boy donates Rs 43k piggy bank savings to CP formation to the people must,” he added. The sector. I was astonished trators to keep up the states such as Delhi, Bhubaneswar, May 18: nated his piggy bank sav- 6th standard student as “weapons against this PM also cautioned that to see how villagers morale of those on Himachal Pradesh, A Class-VI student of a ings to Commissionerate Ishan Nayak of virus.” The interaction there is a need to remain were maintaining social frontlines and of those in Karnataka, Madhya private school in Police(CP) today to be #SaiInternationalSchool was held to receive feed- vigilant even in places distancing even while home isolation. “As a Pradesh and Bhubaneswar has gar- used for welfare of cops. donated Rs 43000/- his back from states on the where the daily numbers working in the fields. large section of people Uttarakhand. District nered a big round of ap- The Commissionerate piggy bank savings to measures taken to re- are dipping. “We have to They grasped the infor- are in home isolation, it magistrates of Patna, plause for his generous Police has applauded the @cpbbsrctc today to be duce the spread of the stop the scale of infec- mation and modified it creates confidence in Bengaluru urban, Indore, act during the novel minor boy and said, used for welfare of cops. infection, ramp up medi- tion from rising by tak- according to their needs. them to fight the chal- Coimbatore, Dehradun, coronavirus crisis. The “Moved by the relentless #WeAreImpressed by cal infrastructure and ing correct steps such as This is the strength of vil- lenge better if somebody Shimoga, and Kolar minor boy, identified as hard work of Police on your gesture & compas- other initiatives taken by testing, tracking, isolation lages,” he said. While he from the administration were also present. Ishan Nayak, has do- the streets during Covid, sion.” Cyclone Brewing In Bay: Will It Impact Odisha? Bhubaneswar, May 18: ropean Centre for Me- Konark on May 26 Bangladesh or Myanmar, dicted formation of a low With the possibility of for- dium-Range Weather evening. On the other he said. The Regional pressure area over Bay of mation of a low pressure Forecasts (ECMWF) hand, renowned meteo- Meteorological Centre Bengal with further inten- area over Bay of Bengal model, the system is likely rologist Jason Nicholls here also forecasted that sification and cyclogen- around May 23, cyclone- to intensify into a cyclonic said there is possibility of a low pressure area is esis between May 21 prone Odisha might wit- storm and approach formation of a low pres- likely to form over east and May 27. “ECMWF ness nature’s fury yet Odisha coast. The model sure area over Bay of central Bay of Bengal and and NCEP GFS models again as weather model further indicates that the Bengal this weekend and neighbourhood around are indicating likely for- indicates movement of the system is likely to reach cyclonic storm early next May 23. The India Me- mation of a low pressure system towards the coast near Odisha coast be- week. The system might teorological Department system over the Bay of of the state. As per Eu- tween Paradip and impact Northeast India, (IMD) had earlier pre- Bengal during the period. Odisha extends lockdown till June 1; Grocery store, essential items shop timings restricted to 4 hrs OSSTA demands frontline warrior status for teachers Bhubaneswar, May 18: past several days. Mean- Bhubaneswar, May 18: The Odisha government while, the state govern- Odisha Secondary today extended the ongo- ment has decided to un- School Teachers’ As- ing lockdown till June 1 dertake a three month sociation (OSSTA) has morning with reduction long house to house sur- demanded frontline of grocery store and vey to check Covid Covid warrior status for other essential items shop symptoms of the people. teachers. Association timings to four hours only The statewide survey Secretary Prakash in the morning. Grocery scheduled to commence Chandra Mohanty and other essential shops from May 24 will be said, teachers are more are allowed to remain conducted by the susceptible to Corona open only for four hours ASHAs and ANMs. On virus since they are daily, from 7 am to 11 am, the other hand, health working at Covid Care Chief Secretary Suresh experts have suggested Homes and Isolation Chandra Mohapatra that the lockdown period Centres from the be- said announcing the ex- should be extended and ginning. Now they are tension of the lockdown. June 1 (5 am). The cur- 10,000 to 12,000 new effect on May 5 and will the Covid-19 norms discharging their duty in panic for the virus. ‘We appeal the depart- Besides, the weekend rent lockdown came into positive cases daily for the remain in force until May should be strictly en- at railway stations in However, the govern- ment of education to shutdown will continue in effect on May 5 and will past several days. Odisha 19. Despite the state forced in the state to thermal screening and ment lingers to declare declare teachers as the state. The lockdown remain in force until May Chief Secretary Suresh government’s claim that keep the alarming surge giving away books and teachers as frontline frontline Covid warrior has been imposed to re- 19. Despite the state Chandra Mahapatra on the lockdown has helped of Covid-19 in the dis- Midday meals at the Covid warriors despite and provide ex-gratia strict gatherings and government’s claim that Tuesday said that the on- in preventing the spread trict under control.