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2.4 THREATS:
Natural Calamities
Flood & Super cyclone etc.
Ganjam District is regularly affected by various natural calamities like Drought,
Though Ganjam District is rich in natural resources like water, forest and mineral
wealth, but frequent natural calamities hinder in the way of development. The unprecedented
flood of the 1990, Super cyclone of 1999, drought of 2001. This also affects the economic
backbone of the district continuously.
Natural calamities not only cause untold miseries to physical, natural and human assets
at the time of occurrence but push the economic development into the cocoon of backwardness
for years to come.
Naturally therefore, despite pooling together of all resources under normal heads, the sign of
backwardness in the form of high IMR, illiteracy, poor health, poverty, inaccessibility,
deprivation, continue in this district.
Economic disparity
There are 3,01,581 out of 5.5 lakhs families who are below poverty line in the district.
The families living in interior pockets have vulnerability to ill health, economic distortion and
natural calamities.
Poverty is the result of economic, social and political phenomenon that interact with each other
in way that exacerbate the deprivation in which poor people live. Meager assets, inaccessible
markets and scarce job opportunities lock people in abject poverty loop.
Inaccessibility
There are certain tribal pockets in Blocks like Surada, Dharakote, Bhanjanagar,
Khallikote, Polosara, Patrapur, Beguniapada, Jaganathprasad, Buguda, Sanakhemundi,
Digapahandi and Seragada which are inaccessible. The rivulets, brimming to their full obstruct
the accessibility in the hilly regions. Efforts have been made to connect the pockets under RCP
and PMGSY. Inaccessibility cause multiple disadvantages like ill health, stagnation, lack of
marketability to products etc
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