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Fact Finding Report of GASS on Child Deaths in Malkangiri

Fact Finding Report of GASS on Child Deaths in Malkangiri The government of Odisha has failed to check deaths of children due to an outbreak of Japanese Encephalitis (JE) in the district of Malkangiri. A total of 136 children have succumbed to JE over the past three months but the government’s response has been pathetic. This is not for the first time that we have been witness to gross governmental neglect. What is new this time is that the government, instead of acknowledging its carelessness and inability to effectively address the tragedy, has even started blaming the tribals for the deaths! Government functionaries are asserting that the deaths are occurring because the adivasis raise pigs and eat Bana Chakunda. (A wild grass whose bean-like seeds contain anthroquinone, a toxin). The Ganatantrik Adhikar Suraksha Sangathan (GASS), Odisha is a human rights organisation, whose activists have conducted fact-findings on various issues in respect of human rights violations over the...
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Bhadrak Communal Riot, 2017

Bhadrak Communal Riot, 201 7 A Fact Finding Report to the Nation Date : 31 st May 2017 Riot took place on the next day of “Ramanabami”  celebration on April 6 and 7, which the District Administration failed to prevent. Had the administration taken immediate steps and promulgation of Section 144 be strictly observed on 6th April and then also on 7th April such incidents could have been avoided. Religious processions that cause kind of communal tension should not be allowed. Those charged with violations and offences should be booked and punished according to the law of the state. It should also be ensured that there is no escape route for them. And the state should constitute a SIT to investigate and punish the rioters. Prelude           While investigating the actual cause of the riot of Bhadrak, a coastal district of Odisha, the team from Ganatantrik Adhikar Suraksha Sangathan (GASS) came to know of two friends, A...
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Nagada Child Deaths - Intention Doubtful

Nagada Child Deaths - Intention Doubtful A Fact-finding Report The Nagada village of Chingudipala Panchayat of Sukinda block in Jajpur district, Odisha caught headlines of the state and national media due to continuous child deaths in July-August, 2016. Now five to six months have already passed. A six-member team of the “Ganatantrik Adhikar Surakha Sangathan” visited the place on 4 th February 2017 to know about on-going programs of the government in addressing malnutrition problems of Nagada village. The team visited villages such as Upara Nagada, Majhi Nagada, Tala Nagada and Naliadaba villages of Chingudipala panchayat. Two months back our team had gone to Malkangiri district where more than hundred children died in few months due to Japanese Encephalitis (JE). We will bring a detailed report soon on continuous death of children in Odisha due to malnutrition. Here we are bringing before you some of the findings of the team who had gone to Nagada village.   ...
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Opposition to Vedanta in Kodinga proxy-mining

It has been the practice of the government of Odisha to hand over land and forest of local people without asking their consent to various mining companies either in a back-door policy or using police force or both which Ganatantrik Adhikar Suraksha Sangatha, Odisha (GASS) has been opposing. On 11 th August 2017, the villagers of five villages, namely, Singaram, Biriguda, Biriguda colony, Balijodi and Odiapentah situated on foot of Kondinga Hill of Rayagada – Koraput district of southern Odisha, opposing the decision of the government to hand over the Hill to Vedanta company in such backdoor policy, have passed resolution, “not to give any patta land, forest land and community land to any mining company”. They have circulated their resolution in among various organisations and they have sent a copy also to GASS.             Here to remind you that the government of Odisha was intending to give proxy minin...
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Workers arrested on false charges of "sedition"

Press Release 7 th August 2017             Two mine workers, Rabi Murmu and Abhimanyu Mahanta, of Sukinda Chromite mining area of Jajpur district of Odisha, while opposing their illegal suspension from their work, while they were uniting other workers to place their common demands before the management and while both of them were questioning the silence of existing trade unions on workers’ issue  have been arrested on false charges of “sedition”, “riot”, “waging war against the State” and under various sections of Unlawful Activities of Prevention Act (or “Maoist”). Both of them were arrested on 12 th June 2017. The Ganatantrik Adhikar Suraksha Sangathan, Odisha condemns their illegal arrest in strongest language.             A four-member fact finding team Ganatantrik Adhikar Suraksha Sangathan, Odisha recently went to Kamarda Chromite Mining area of Sukinda o...
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