Kalahandi district is a district of western Odisha in India.
Angul district;also known as Anugul,is one of the thirty districts of Odisha in eastern India. The city of Angul is the district headquarters of Angul district. A major industrial hub of the state,the district hosts numerous industries relating to coal,bauxite and steel apart from extensive forests including the Satkosia Tiger Reserve.
Nuapada district is located in the Odisha state in India,with the town of Nuapada serving as the headquarters of the district. It has one subdivision:Nuapada,and five blocks:Khariar,Sinapali,Boden,Komna,and Nuapada. Nuapada District has three Notified Area Councils:Khariar,Khariar Road,and Nuapada,six tehsils in addition to villages,such as Gandabahali,Tukla,Hatibandha,Duajher,Bargaon,Tarbod,Udyanbandh,and Larka.
Khonds are an indigenous Dravidian tribal community in India. Traditionally,hunter-gatherers,they are divided into the hill-dwelling Khonds and plain-dwelling Khonds for census purposes,but the Khonds themselves identify by their specific clans. Khonds usually hold large tracts of fertile land,but still practice hunting,gathering,and slash-and-burn agriculture in the forests as a symbol of their connection to,and as an assertion of their ownership of the forests wherein they dwell. Khonds speak the Kui language and write it in the Odia script.
Bhawanipatna is a city and the headquarter of Kalahandi district in the state of Odisha,India. Bhawanipatna has numerous Hindu temples dedicated to different deities. Its name is a combination of the presiding Hindu deity,Bhabani-Sankar,and Patana,which means "place" in Odia.
Sambalpur is the fifth largest city in the Indian State of Odisha. It is located on the banks of river Mahanadi,with a population of 335,761. Prehistoric settlements have been recorded there. It is the home of the Sambalpuri sari.
Padmapur is a major town and a notified area in Bargarh district in the Indian state of Odisha. It is also a Subdivisional Headquarter and area wise biggest subdivision of Bargarh District.
Vedanta Resources Limited is a diversified mining company headquartered in London,United Kingdom. It is the largest mining and non-ferrous metals company in India and has mining operations in Australia and Zambia and oil and gas operations in three countries. Its main products are Zinc,Lead,Silver,Oil &Gas,Iron Ore,Steel,Aluminium and Power. It has also developed commercial power stations in India in Odisha and Punjab.
Prasanna Acharya is an Indian politician from Odisha,India. He is a former member of parliament in the Rajya Sabha. He is a member of the Biju Janata Dal.
Nabakrushna Choudhury was an Indian politician and activist. He served as Chief Minister of the Indian state of Odisha. He was a freedom fighter who participated in the Non-cooperation Movement,the Civil Disobedience movement,and the Peasant movement.
Kalahandi Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 21 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Orissa state in eastern India.
Sambalpur Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 21 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Odisha state in eastern India. This constituency covers the whole Sambalpur district and parts of Deogarh and Angul districts.
Bhubaneswar Behera was an engineer,writer and scholar from the Kalahandi district of Odisha.
The Kosal state movement is an effort by people of the Western Odisha region of India to secede from the state of Odisha. Organizations like Western Odisha Yuva Manch (WOYM),Kosal Youth Coordination Committee (KYCC),Kosal State Coordination Committee (KSCC),Koshal Sena,Koshal Mukti Bahini and Koshal Mukti Morcha are mainly leading this.
Sriballav Panigrahi was an Indian politician,a leader of the Indian National Congress party in Odisha and was a member of the All India Congress Committee (AICC). He was elected to the Parliament of India from the Deogarh Lok Sabha constituency,three times,1984,1991 and 1996.
Ram Chandra Vikal was a freedom fighter. He was an agriculture minister and was elected twice as a Member of Parliament as well as a five-time Member of the Legislative Assembly. He had charge of Jammu and Kashmir during the governments of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. He was also a well known yoga teacher. Vikal was influenced by the ideology of the Arya Samaj from childhood and participated in the freedom movement from his student days. An agriculturist,Vikal championed the cause of the farmers,labourers and backward classes,and was instrumental in implementing various social welfare measures such as getting irrigation rates reduced and land revenue written off.
The Dangaria Kandha people are members of the Kondhs. They are located in the Niyamgiri hills in the state of Odisha in India. They sustain themselves from the resources of the Niyamgiri forests,practising horticulture and shifting cultivation. They have been at the centre of a dispute over mining rights in the area.
The Niyamgiri is a hill range situated in the districts of Kalahandi and Rayagada in the south-west of Odisha,India. These hills are home to Dongria Kondh indigenous people. The hills have one of India's most pristine forests in the interior. It is bound by Karlapat Wildlife Sanctuary on the north-west side and Kotgarh Wildlife Sanctuary on the north-east end.
Kishen Pattnaik was an Indian social leader,socialist thinker,author and activist. As a member of parliament for the 3rd Lok Sabha,he represented the Praja Socialist Party for the Sambalpur Constituency of India. Pattnaik founded and edited a Hindi monthly periodical called Samayik Varta.
Orissa Mining Corporation v. Ministry of Environment &Forest &Others is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of India,which declared that Gram Sabha has a role to play in safeguarding the customary and religious rights of the STs and other Traditional Forest Dwellers (TFDs) like Dangaria Kondha etc. under the Forest Rights Act. The Apex Court maintained that the decision lies with the locals.
