Tag: Bargarh District

Balasore accident

Goods Train Derails In Odisha, 3 Days After Balasore Accident

By LokMarg

Three days after Balasore’s triple train accident, a goods train derailed at a narrow gauge siding of a private cement company in Odisha’s Bargarh on Monday morning.

The incident is however not connected with the Indian railway system and took place on a private track laid inside the ACC Cement plant near Bargarh.
According to sources, five bogies of a goods train derailed near Mendhapali of Bargarh district on Monday morning.

No casualty or injury to anyone has been reported in the incident, they said.

East Coast Railway (ECoR) officials said that the incident is not connected with the Indian railway system and was reported to be at a private narrow gauge line between Dungri Limestone Mines and Cement Plant of ACC in Bargarh.

“Some wagons of a goods train operated by a private cement factory derailed inside the factory premises near Mendhapali of Bargarh district in Odisha. There is no role of Railways in this matter,” the ECoR said in a statement.

More details awaited. (ANI)

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Birds Village

Odisha Hamlet Declares Itself Birds Village To Protect Migratory Birds

By LokMarg

Govindpur village in the Bargarh district of Odisha has declared itself a “Birds Village” and pledged to protect and conserve the migratory birds coming to Hirakud reservoir every year.

This is the first instance in Odisha, where villagers have joined hands to keep their villages pollution-free in order to conserve and protect birds and the Hirakud landscape.
“With Govindpur village, two other adjoining villages named Tamdei and Ramkhol have also joined hands with them, all three villages promised and pledged in a recently held meeting that they will protect and conserve the migratory birds coming to Hirakud reservoir every year,” informed Anshu Pragyan Das, Divisional Forest Officer, Hirakud Wildlife Division.

“More than 2 lakh foreign birds migrate from different parts of the world to Hirakud every year during October and halt here for six months ( More than 100 variety of birds),” she said.

As per Das, many tourists from Chhattisgarh (Raigarh, Raipur etc), Jharkhand and nearby districts like Jharsuguda, Bolangir, Sonepur, Sambalpur and all locals of Bargarh districts visit these three villages for a picnic, boating and birding. Many photographers too come here for photography of temples submerged at Hirakud, wildlife of Debrigarh who come down to water morning and evening, the beauty of vast Hirakud Lake and forested hills inside water.

“All houses in these villages will have wall paintings of the colourful birds like Redcrested Pochard, Moorhen, Skimmer etc and they will as guide take tourists for boating and explain to them interesting features of these birds, from which country they have come, why they have come,” Das added

“To keep the landscape clean, villagers have taken the responsibility, Hirakud Division will provide all required help including installation of enough dustbins for this purpose.”

The declaration of Hirakud Lake as a Ramsar Site in 2022 will invite many travelers, tourists, photographers, and trekkers to this area in the coming years. (ANI)

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