Poverty forces ex-block chairperson of Deogaon to migrate

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Failing agriculture and shrinking forests have destroyed traditional livelihoods, forcing lakhs of people to leave Odisha to work in distant and unsafe brick kilns. And this time, even the former chairperson of Deogaon block under Balangir Sadar sub-division has migrated to Andhra Pradesh far away from the panchayat poll campaign.