3-day Kalahandi Dialogue ends
After three days of intensive dialogue on several significant development issues including that of agriculture, art, culture, climate change, women and youth empowerment, sustainable livelihood, access to justice and effective political participation etc, a Kalahandi Declaration with a ten-point action plan was issued.
The draft of the declaration was adopted in the plenary session giving a call for collaborative projects and investments in Kalahandi.
Prof CM Khanda, the Dean of OUAT Bhawanipatna, committed to extend support to train young farmers in scientific and organic farming.
There will be several collaborative camps throughout the year to reach out to the farmers and agripreneurs as well.
Prof Srikrishna Deva Rao, Vice-Chancellor of National Law University Odisha (NLUO), Cuttack, extended a proposal to support collaborative work in legal literacy training for the youth, public representatives and social activists.
Khadi and Village Industries Board Chaiman Tejeswar Parida has extended collaborative support in creating rural entrepreneurship especially in the area of bee-keeping.
Sanjay Mishra of Sathi, Bhubaneswar, extended his offer to provide free sanitary napkin packs to 10,000 under-privileged women in next three years.
Samarendra Sahu of Institute of Entrepreneurship Development (IED), MSME, Government of Odisha and Dr Bijay Kumar Sahu of National
Research Development Corporation (NRDC), Government of India proposed to support entrepreneurship development and technology adoption, respectively.
The Room2Read has committed five libraries in Kalahandi and Gyanesh Mishra committed to build an art school in M Rampur.
The third day saw several stalwarts like Manmohan Singh, Umi Danil, Rahul Nainwal, Osama Manjar, Sourav Banerjee, Sanjit Behera, Bhabani Shankar Mishra, Pravas Ranjan Mishra, Prof Surendranath Pasupalak, Ardhendu Das, Puspendra Singhdeo, Abani Mohan Panigrahi, Gopabandhu Behera, Rahas Bihari Behera, AV Swamy, Manoj Panda and Dibya Shankar Mishra discussing and debating on issues like agriculture, food security, citizen engagement, political will and how best to harness the energies of Kalahandi for a holistic development of the district.
