Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday announced a host of welfare and developmental programmes, including 34,000 pucca houses and a mega water supply scheme worth Rs 1,120 crore, for the Bijepur Assembly constituency.

As many as eight lakh population of 505 villages will be benefitted by the water supply project in Bargarh district. All the villages of Bijepur constituency would be provided with piped water supply with household connection in next two years. A new mega lift project under the Parbatigiri Mega Lift Scheme will be taken up in Buromunda GP of Gaisilet block for providing irrigation to 3,000 acres of agriculture land. Besides, 29 river lift projects and about 3,000 deep borewell irrigation projects will be taken up.

Infrastructure works, including water supply, street lighting, roads, drainage, town hall, community centers, kalyan mandap, stadium, market complex, park, office buildings will be taken up in Bijepur and Barpalli NACs. Package for each town will cost Rs 40 crore and the works will be completed within next two years.

In order to provide quality power to farmers, 60 km of 33 KV lines and 125 km of 11 KV lines will be constructed. Besides, 50 new distribution transformers will be set up.

Three new Rl circles will be set up at Guderpali, Talpali and Dangabahal under Gaisilet Tahasil and a new PHC will be opened at Talpadar in Bijepur Block. Adequate number of doctors will be posted in existing health institutions within a week. A Government ITI will be set up at Bijepur and two Skill Development Centres will come up at Gaisilet and Barpali.

Four new road development projects covering a length of about 80 km and a bridge project would be sanctioned at a cost of about Rs  82 crores.