Poorest district in Odisha awarded Rs 15 lakh for campaign against traditional healers

Mayurbhanj district administration received Rs 25 lakh for its work on food processing while Khurda was awarded Rs 10 lakh for its work in the field of eye care.

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Last month, Nabarangpur saw the end of a 68-day-long Jyoti campaign, a village-level awareness drive in all its 169 grampanchayats. The campaign, which ran from March 1 to May 7, was started in the wake of the branding of 23 infants since December.

It involved over 4,400 traditional healers and an almost equal number of anganwadi workers, ASHA workers, panchayatiraj functionaries and local youths.

As part of the awareness drive, jingles and audio clips on perils of traditional healing and branding of babies were developed in Desia language and distributed to all blocks. Naveen also announced cash prizes for districts that successfully implement various government schemes in the state.