THEBUSINESSBYTES BUREAU JHARSUGUDA/LANJIGARH, AUGUST 11, 2025 Odisha’s tribal heartlands — home to vibrant communities such as the Kondh, Gond, Santal, Munda, and Saura — are celebrated for their distinctive cultures, crafts, and traditions. Yet, behind this cultural wealth lay decades of neglect, poverty, and isolation. In the rugged landscapes of Rayagada, the famine-scarred Kalahandi region of Lanjigarh, and the remote ...

THEBUSINESSBYTES BUREAU LANJIGARH (KALAHANDI), AUGUST 8, 2025 On the occasion of World Tribal Day, Vedanta Aluminium, India’s largest producer of aluminium, celebrates the inspiring transformation of Kalahandi — a district once marked by poverty and underdevelopment — into a national model for tribal-led progress and grassroots empowerment. In 2001, Kalahandi’s contribution to Odisha’s Gross District Domestic Product (GDDP) was less ...