legal and bureaucratic wrangles are coming as a major hurdle for the land losers to share profit of the companies for which their lands were acquired.
While the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) had promised in its election manifesto in 2014 to provide shares to the people from whom land is acquired for the companies, the commitment is yet to be kept after four years.
As the Revenue Disaster Management Minister reeled out success stories on the achievements of his department of May 15, it came to the fore that the State Government is yet to take steps to make it mandatory for the industries to provide shares to the people.
Similarly, the BJD in its election manifesto promised to make it mandatory for the industries to provide shares to the gram panchayats also.
The idea was to make both GPs and displaced people (DP)s to share profit of the companies and get a regular and continuous income.
This was appreciated by human rights groups and social activists as Odisha would have been the first State to come up with such a noble step.
However, after four long years, the promise made in 2014 is yet to be fulfilled.
In fact the corporate sector are opposing this idea and were actively busy in sabotaging such a benevolent move by the State Government and have been successful in blocking the move, admit social activists.
After getting elected for the fourth time in 2014, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik announced in his first Council of Ministers meeting that immediate steps are to be taken by the Revenue and Disaster Management Department to bring out guidelines on profit sharing for the land losers and GPs in the companies.