Nagada Poem by Gajanan Mishra

Where is Nagada?

You replied;
It is a hilltop village
In the district of Jajpur,
It is in the state of Odisha.

Odisha is earlier
Famous for bonded labor,
Dadan shramik,
Sale of children
Due to poverty.
Both educated and
Uneducated are going far
To fill up their belly.
No scope of life,
No use of mother tongue,
No interest for development of
Motherland by the officials
And also the representatives.

No road to Nagada, see, till date.
Road to Nagada goes nowhere, find.
The road construction work
From Khanduraisal to Ashokjhar
And from Ashokjhar to Nagada-
Remained incomplete.
Completely disrupted communication
To so many villages
Like Guhiashala, Tumundi,
Naliadaba villages.
No food, no nutrition there
For children and adults alike.

Children and adults are
Dying there due to shortage of
Food and malnutrition.
The all suffer from malnourishment
And other ailments.
Maoists are there
To help all in some way
Or other.
Government is sleeping
And all children and
Also, people are dying.
No treatments, no doctors,
And no one is there to
Help the needy.

At present the village Nagada
Is a Task force visits village.
God can only help the people.