Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is scheduled to visit Khariar in Nuapada district on March 10. The District Press Club conducted an informal sample people's opinion survey to know about what they expect the CM to declare on his visit.
The list suggested by people includes as many as 14 development projects, the first priority given to those like opening of an Ayurvedic college at Boden, a fisheries college at Tikhali and an MSME park at Khariar.
The other expectations are: accordance of Government status to the Khariar Degree Women's College, establishment of sports hostels along with mini stadiums at Khariar and Nuapada, declaration of Khariar as a subdivision, Government approval to bear 50% share of the proposed railway line construction from Kantabanji to Koksara via Khariar, extension of the Indravati left canal up to Sinapali to cover above three thousand hectares of agricultural lands, construction of a State Highway from NH-353 near Guru Nanak Chhak of Khariar to Litisargi of Boden and Khariar block Chhak to Harishankar via Mahakhand; construction of separate girls’ and boys’ hostels in the premises of Khariar Autonomous College, a building for sub-divisional hospital at Khariar, development of historical places like Jogi Math, Maraguda, Patal Ganga, Upka Ganga, development of a botanical park and a ropeway at Budhia dongar at Khariar and declaration of Sinapali and Tukla as NACs.
"A developed Nuapada district needs implementation of all these projects in immediate future, We have submitted the findings of our opinion survey to Rajya Sabha member Sujit Kumar, said Tapan Dash and Ajit Panda of the District Press Club.
