ITDA-Chintoor reaches out to woman, just-born baby
The Hindu
A boat and ‘108’ ambulance arranged to shift them to a PHC
The Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA) in Chintoor and the ‘108’ personnel on Sunday came to the rescue of a pregnant woman from a cut-off habitation of the Godavari in the Papikonda hill range, by providing her timely access to the medical and health facilities.
A native of Gonduru in the cut-off area in V.R. Puram mandal, Sandala Jayasudha of the Konda Reddy tribe was expected to deliver her baby in December.
However, she complained of labour pains in the early hours of Sunday.
Aasheesh Pittie says birdwatching is not very unlike hunting, except that nothing is killed. “You track… you want to follow the bird… see it,” he says about this activity that he has pursued for nearly fifty years. Pittie, the editor of the ornithological journal Indian Birds, author of many classic reference books about birds and most recently, a collection of bird essays titled The Living Air: Pleasures of Birds and Birdwatching, was speaking at an event organised by the Archives of the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS).