Keonjhar district Collector Dr N Tiruvallanaik held a public grievance meeting in Barbil Municipality on Monday, this being the first such event in the area. There was much public enthusiasm to attend the meeting at which a total of 54 complaints were registered.
Important among the grievances were the demand by a citizen forum for construction of bypass road for Barbil town; complaint against depositing of mining dust on the agricultural land by the OMDC and the KP Enterprises; inclusion of Bhusugaon village under Bhadrashi GP instead of Serenda GP, creation of a new GP by dividing the old Bhadrasahi GP; irregularity in issuing the non-PDS kerosene in Barbil Municipality and demand to provide school bus to the Saraswati Sishu Mandir students who are coming from Chattei Hatting, Mandir Hatting and Barpada by the Aryan Steel under CSR activities.
All district-level officers were present at the meeting. Those who coordinated in the meeting were Keonjhar SP Kabita Jallan, PD, DRDA Biranchi Narayan Mohanty, Champua Sub-Collector Santosh Kumar Mishra and Barbil Municipality Chairman Dillip Kumar Mishra.