Nuapada
—  district  —
Nuapada Location of Nuapada in Orissa and India
Coordinates	20°39′00″N 82°49′59″E / 20.65°N 82.833°E / 20.65; 82.833Coordinates: 20°39′00″N 82°49′59″E / 20.65°N 82.833°E / 20.65; 82.833
Country	India
State	Orissa
Headquarters	Nuapada
Collector	Shri Pradeep Kumar Hota
Member of Parliament	Mr. Bhakta Charan Das
Parliamentary constituency	Kalahandi
Assembly constituency	2, 71.Nuapada, 72.Khariar
Population • Density	606,490 (2011[update]) • 157 /km2 (407 /sq mi)
Sex ratio	1020 ♂/♀
Literacy • Male • Female	58.20%  • 71.55% • 45.21%
Official languages	Oriya, Hindi, English
Time zone	IST (UTC+05:30)
Area	3,408 square kilometres (1,316 sq mi)
Climate • Precipitation	Aw (Köppen) •      1,230 mm (48 in)
Codes • Pincode • 766 xxx • Vehicle • OR-26
Website	nuapada.nic.in

Nuapada is a district of Orissa, India.

History[link]

The District of Nuapada was a part of Kalahandi District till early March 1993, but for the administrative convenience, Kalahandi District was divided into two parts i.e. Kalahandi and Nuapada vide State Government Notification No. DRC-44/93/14218/R. dated 27 March 1993. Nuapada District now comprises two sub-division (Nuapada and khariar), two tehsils (Nuapada and Khariar) and five Community Development Blocks (Khariar, Sinapalli, Boden, Nuapada and Komna).

Geography[link]

Naupada district located in western part of Orissa, lies between 20° 0' N and 21° 5' No latitudes and between 82° 20' E and 82° 40' E longitudes. Its boundaries extend in the north, west and south to Mahasamund district in Chhattisgarh and in the east to Bargarh, Balangir and Kalahandi districts. This district is spread over in an area of 3407.5 km² and the administrative headquarters is located at Nuapada.

The plains of Naupada subdivision fringed by rugged hill ranges stretch southward, which belong to the main line of the Eastern Ghats and contain extensive plateaus of about 4000 ft (1200 m) in elevation with long tropical grass grown over them. They contain such mineral deposits of laterite, graphite and bauxite.

Economy[link]

In 2006 the Ministry of Panchayati Raj named Nuapada one of the country's 250 most backward districts (out of a total of 640).^[1] It is one of the 19 districts in Orissa currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF).^[1]

Demographics[link]

According to the 2011 census Nuapada district has a population of 606490,^[2] roughly equal to the nation of Solomon Islands^[3] or the US state of Wyoming.^[4] This gives it a ranking of 524th in India (out of a total of 640).^[2] The district has a population density of 157 inhabitants per square kilometre (410 /sq mi) .^[2] Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 14.28 %.^[2] Nuapada has a sex ratio of 1020 females for every 1000 males,^[2] and a literacy rate of 58.2 %.^[2]

Flora and fauna[link]

The hill sides rising up precipitously from the plains are covered with dense sal forests. The forests of the district are managed under Forest Division namely Khariar Division. According to their composition, the forests can be classified into sal forests, teak forests, miscellaneous forests where sal, teak and other species occur in mixture and bamboo forest. All these are situated in the dry deciduous forest zone. Timber is by far the major forest produce and sal is no doubt, a major constituent of these products. Other important species are bija, asan, bandhan and teak. Among the minor forest produces of this region are kendu leaf, bamboo, broom-grass, mohua flower and seed, antia bark and sabai-grass. Timber, bamboo and kendu leaf are the main exports outside the state.

Places of Interest[link]

Yogeswar Temple, Patora

Situated at a distace of 18km, from Nuapada Yogeswar temple at Patora is famous for its ancient Shiva Linga.^[5] Gulshan Kumar helped for the construction of the new temple. ^[6]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website

		Mahasamund district, Chhattisgarh	Bargarh district
	Raipur district, Chhattisgarh		Balangir district
		Nuapada district    East
			Kalahandi district

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Nuapada,is a city in Koshal region of Orissa state of eastern India. It is the headquarters of Nuapada district. It is part of Orissa, liguistically & culturally.

Education[link]

There are 19 schools in Nuapada.

Places of Interest[link]

Yogeswar Temple, Patora

Situated at a distace of 18km, from Nuapada Yogeswar temple at Patora is famous for its ancient Shiva Linga.^[1] Gulshan Kumar helped for the construction of the new temple. ^[2]

Politics[link]

Current MLA from Nuapada Assembly Constituency is Biju Janata Dal candidate Rajendra Dholakia, who won the seat in State elections of 2009. This is his second term as MLA. In his first term he was elected as an Independent candidate in the Assembly elections held in 2004. Previous MLAs from this seat were Basanta Kumar Panda of BJP who won this seat in 2000, Ghasi Ram Majhi who won representing JD in 1995 and 1990 and representing JNP in 1985 and in 1977, and Bhanuprakash Joshi of INC(I) in 1980.^[3]

Nawapara is part of Kalahandi (Lok Sabha constituency).^[4]

References[link]

• Dr. C. Pasayat (1998), Tribe, Caste and Folkculture, Jaipur/New Delhi: Rawat Publications.
• Dr. C. Pasayat (Ed.) (2007), Adibasi Moukhika Sahitya Parampara (in Oriya), Kolkata: Sahitya Akademi.
• Dr. C. Pasayat (Ed.) (2008), Paschima Odisara Lokageeta (in Oriya), Bhubaneswar: Sahitya Akademi.

Coordinates: 20°49′00″N 82°32′00″E / 20.8167°N 82.5333°E / 20.8167; 82.5333

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Dilip Tirkey hailing from Sundargarh, Orissa is a former Indian hockey player and his playing position was of full back. He was best known for his penalty corner hit. Dilip was one of the most difficult defenders (because of his tight marking skill near goal post) to beat in the world. He was an ex-captain of Indian hockey team. On March 21, 2012, he was elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha as one of the three BJD candidates to the Upper House of Indian Parliament.

Personal life[link]

Dilip Tirkey was born to Vincent Tirkey a Oraon, Adivasi and former Oriya hockey player and Regina Tirkey on 23 November 1977. His twin younger brothers Anoop Tirkey and Ajit Tirkey play for Railways. He married to Meera Tirkey on 6 February 2006 and is a father of one son. He was appointed as the Deputy manager of sweepar, Air India, Bhubaneswar in 1996.^[1]

Career[link]

He debuted in 1995 against England.^[2] He represented India in 1996 Atlanta, 2000 Sydney and 2004 Athens Olympics and had a total of 412 international caps. He is the only Adivasi to represent three Olympics.

On 2 May 2010 he announced his retirement from international arena.^[3]

He declined to become a National selector on July 16, 2010, three days after he was offered the post by Indian Hockey Federation.

Awards and Honours[link]

Honours[link]

• Included in the Junior World XI in 1997
• Included in the Asian XI in 2002
• Selected for World All-Star team in 2006
• Selected for World All-Star team in 2007
• Received the 2nd Ricoh Hockey Star of the Year Award in Bhubaneswar on July 6, 2010
• Received the honorary Doctorate from Sambalpur University on July 15, 2010
• Received the Odisha Living Legend Award from Orissadiary.com on Nov 11, 2011

Achievements[link]

• First-ever tribal to get Padma Shree Award
• India's highest capped (412 matches) hockey international and third highest in the world
• Only Adivasi to represent India in 3 Olympic Games.
• 1995: 7th SAF Games at Chennai (Champions)
• 1996: Olympic Games at Atlanta, USA (8th place)
• 1997: Under-21 Test Series against Germany (Winners)
• 1997: Under-21 Challengers Cup Tournament at Poznan, Poland (Winners)
• 1997: Junior World Cup at Milton Keynes, England (Runners-up)
• 1998: Asian Games at Bangkok (Gold medal)
• 1999: Asia Cup at Kuala Lumpur (Bronze medal)
• 2000: Olympic Games at Sydney (7th place)
• 2000: 10th Sultan Azlan Shah Cup Tournament at Kuala Lumpur (Bronze medal)
• 2002: Champions Trophy at Cologne, Germany (4th place), as Captain
• 2002: Asian Games at Busan, South Korea ( Silver medal ), as Captain
• 2003: Asia Cup at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Champions)
• 2003: Afro-Asian Games at Hyderabad (Gold medal), as Captain
• 2004: Olympic Games at Athens, Greece (7th place), as Captain^[4]
• 2011: Odisha Living Legend Award ^[5]

References[link]

Rahul Gandhi
Member of Lok Sabha from Amethi
Incumbent
Assumed office 2004
General Secretary of the Indian National Congress
Incumbent
Assumed office 2007
Chairperson of IYC and NSUI
Incumbent
Assumed office 2007
Personal details
Born	(1970-06-19) 19 June 1970 (age 42) New Delhi, India
Nationality	Indian
Political party	Indian National Congress
Relations	Rajiv Gandhi (father) Sonia Gandhi (mother) Priyanka Vadra (sister)
Residence	New Delhi, India
Alma mater	Rollins College Trinity College, Cambridge
Profession	Member of Parliament
As of 5 June, 2011

Rahul Gandhi ([ˈraːɦʊl ˈɡaːnd̪ʱiː]; born 19 June 1970) is an Indian politician and member of the Parliament of India, representing the Amethi constituency.^[1] Gandhi is the general-secretary of the Indian National Congress.^[2] He is the grandson of Feroze Gandhi and Indira (née Nehru) Gandhi, and fourth-generation scion of the Nehru-Gandhi family.

Early life and career[link]

Rahul Gandhi was born in Delhi on 19 June 1970 ^[3] as the first of the two children of Rajiv Gandhi, who later became the Prime Minister of India and Sonia Gandhi, who later became President of Indian National Congress, and as the grandson of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. He is also the great-grandson of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Priyanka Vadra is his younger sister.^[4]

Rahul Gandhi attended St. Columba's School, Delhi^[5] before entering The Doon School in Dehradun (Uttarakhand), also his father's alma mater,^[6] from 1981–83. Meanwhile, his father had joined politics and became the Prime Minister on October 31, 1984 when Indira Gandhi was assassinated. Due to the security threats faced by Indira Gandhi's family from Sikh extremists, Rahul Gandhi and his sister, Priyanka were home-schooled since then.^[7] Rahul Gandhi joined St. Stephen's College, Delhi in 1989 for his undergraduate education but moved to Harvard University after he completed the first year examinations.^[8] In 1991, after Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by LTTE^[9] during an election rally, he shifted to Rollins College due to security concerns and completed his B.A. in 1994.^[10] During this period, he assumed the pseudonym Raul Vinci and his identity was known only to the university officials and security agencies.^[8][11] He further went on to obtain a M.Phil from Trinity College, Cambridge University in 1995.^[12] After graduation, Rahul Gandhi worked at the Monitor Group, a management consulting firm, in London.^[13] In 2002 he was one of the directors of Mumbai-based technology outsourcing firm Backops Services Private Ltd.^[14]

Political career[link]

In March 2004, he announced his entry into politics by announcing that he would contest the May 2004 elections, standing for his father's former constituency of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha, India's lower house of Parliament.^[15] The seat had been held by his mother until she transferred to the neighbouring seat of Rae Bareilly. The Congress had been doing poorly in Uttar Pradesh, holding only 10 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in the state at the time.^[16] At the time, this move generated surprise among political commentators, who had regarded his sister Priyanka as being the more charismatic and likely to succeed. It generated speculation that the presence of a young member of India's most famous political family would reinvigorate the Congress party's political fortunes among India's youthful population^[17] In his first interview with foreign media, he portrayed himself as a uniter of the country and condemned "divisive" politics in India, saying that he would try to reduce caste and religious tensions.^[15]

He won with a landslide majority, retaining the family stronghold with a margin of over 100,000 as the Congress unexpectedly defeated the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.^[18] Until 2006 he held no other office.^[19]

Gandhi and his sister, who is married to Robert Vadra, managed their mother's campaign for re-election to Rae Bareilly in 2006, which was won easily with a margin greater than 400,000 votes.^[20]

He was a prominent figure in the Congress campaign for the 2007 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections; Congress, however, won only 22 seats with 8.53% of votes.^[21]

Rahul Gandhi was appointed a general secretary of the All India Congress Committee on 24 September 2007 in a reshuffle of the party secretariat.^[22] In the same reshuffle, he was also given charge of the Indian Youth Congress and the National Students Union of India.^[23]

In 2008, senior Congress leader Veerappa Moily mentioned “Rahul-as-PM” idea when the PM of India Manmohan Singh was still abroad.^[24]

Youth politics[link]

In his attempt to prove himself as a youth leader in November 2008 he held interviews at his 12, Tughlak Lane residence in New Delhi to handpick at least 40 people who will make up the think-tank of the Indian Youth Congress (IYC), an organisation that he has been keen to transform since he was appointed general secretary in September 2007.^[25]

Under Rahul Gandhi, IYC and NSUI has seen a dramatic increase in members from a two lakhs to twenty five lakhs.^[26]

In various reports it has been proved that Rahul Gandhi has failed in his promise to eliminate family, patronage, money from Youth Congress. It has been seen that an aspiring delegates need to pay a substantial sum as nomination fee. Hence, an aspiring office-bearer with deep pockets sponsors them thereby allowing money power to have a role in the elections.^[27][28][29]

2009 elections[link]

In the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, he retained his Amethi constituency by defeating his nearest rival by a margin of over 333,000 votes. In these elections congress is said to have revived itself in Uttar Pradesh by winning 21 out of the total 80 Lok Sabha seats and the majority of the credit for this turnaround is given to Rahul Gandhi.^[30] He spoke at 125 rallies across the country in six weeks.

Lokpal bill[link]

Rahul Gandhi opines that the Lokpal should be made a constitutional body and it should be made accountable to the Parliament, just like the Election Commission. He also feels that Lokpal alone cannot root out corruption. This statement came out on 25 August 2011, on the 10th day of Anna Hazare's fast. This statement was considered as a delaying tactic by the opposition and Team Anna's members. It was consequently slammed by prominent opposition leaders Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley.^[31] The Parliamentary Standing Committee led by Abhishek Manu Singhvi tabled the Lok Bill report in the Rajya Sabha on 9 December 2011. Almost all points proposed by Team Anna were ignored while Rahul Gandhi's wish for Lokpal to be made into a constitutional body was implemented. Anna Hazare believes that Rahul Gandhi is responsible for the weak and ineffective bill proposed by the standing committee of parliament.^[32]

Land Acquisition Protests Arrest[link]

On 11 May 2011 Rahul Gandhi was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh police at Bhatta Parsaul village after he turned out in support of agitating farmers demanding more compensation for their land being acquired for a highway project.^[33] He was released after being held for about three hours and later returned to New Delhi. He was to be presented before a Sub-Divisional Magistrate on 12 May 2011.^[34]

2012 Assembly elections[link]

Rahul Gandhi campaigned extensively in the 2012 Assembly elections, especially in the highly politically crucial state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) in the hope that his popularity would help bring Congress back to power. However, the party did very poorly in the elections winning only 38 seats, a meagre increase of six seats from the 2007 elections^[35]. The Samajwadi Party and its new leader, Akhilesh Yadav swept the elections in UP, and Mr Yadav was sworn as the youngest Chief Minister of UP. The Congress party suffered humiliating defeats in other states (Goa and Punjab), and a close shave in Uttarahakhand. With only one win in the state of Manipur, the Indian press was quick to question the future of Mr Gandhi as the leader of the Congress party.^[36]

Political and legal issues[link]

Comparison of RSS and SIMI[link]

Rahul Gandhi has been critical of nationalist groups like the RSS and compared them to terrorist organizations like SIMI.^[37][38] According to a cable leaked by Wikileaks, in 2009, he allegedly shared concerns with the American ambassador to India Timothy Roemer that radicalized Hindu groups may pose a bigger threat to India than Islamic terror groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba.^[39][40] His comments on radical Hindu groups were criticized by the opposition party, as well as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.^[41]

Sukanya Devi[link]

It has been alleged that Rahul Gandhi had detained a girl and her parents since 2007 after the family accused the Gandhi scion of raping the girl. On 01st Mar 2011, the Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court issued a notice to Rahul Gandhi,^[42] however the allegations were found to be false. Allahabad high court not only dismissed the case after the girl in question appeared in the court, but slapped a 50 lakh penalty against the petitioner ordering a CBI inquiry against her and websites publishing the story.^[43]

13th Jul 2011 Terror Attack remarks[link]

On 14th Jul 2011, a day after the serial bombing in Mumbai, Rahul Gandhi gave a statement that "it was very difficult to stop every single terror attack". The remark resulted in a number of strong criticism from a number of Shiv Sena party members.^[44]

See also[link]

• Political Families of The World

References[link]

External links[link]

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