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Odisha unveils roadmap to boost fish production

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Bhubaneswar: Odisha has rolled out a new fishery policy to increase fish production which would create employment opportunities for over two lakh people, an official said on Friday.

‘The Odisha Fishery Policy 2015’ endorsed by the state cabinet led by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik aims to enhance the annual fish production in the state by 2020 to 7.15 lakh tonnes from the present 4.13 lakh tonnes.

“This will create additional employment for over two lakh people,” the state’s Fishery Department secretary Bishnupada Sethi told IANS. Odisha is the first state in India to announce a special policy for its fishery sector, he said.

The new policy has highlighted the need for the improvement of riverine fisheries resources through river ranching. The government will take up regular stock enhancement programmes in selected reservoirs for enhancing the reservoir fish productivity, he said.

Similarly, unused and unproductive waterlogged areas, dead rivers will be developed into fish ponds. Use of pellet fish feed will be promoted with suitable incentives for increasing the aquaculture productivity, he said.

According to the new policy, brackish water aquaculture clusters with basic infrastructure such as inlet and outlet channels, road connectivity, electricity, ice plants, and cold storages will be encouraged and promoted by the government, Sethi said.

The government will take up modernization and shore based infrastructure development of fishing harbour to boost marine fish production, he said.

As the state’s marine fish production is hovering between 1.20 and 1.30 lakh tonnes, efforts will be made to exploit untapped deep sea fishery resources.

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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story

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May 5, 2022

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The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.

In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).

The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.

The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.

Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.

In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.

The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.

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