A 12-hour bandh called by the Naba Nirmana Suraksha Manch in Mohana block in Gajapati district over various demands was successful on Tuesday. A rally was taken out in which hundreds of villagers and the representatives of the 39 gram panchayats participated holding placards and shouting slogans against the State Government.The Manch’s demands included arrest of the two persons, who had taken Rs 83,000 in the name of journalists from a women of Uliapada village in Birikot panchayat, to provide quality seeds and fertilisers, to waive agricultural loans, to hire the doctors for Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department in the Community Health Centre (CHC). and to provide equipments in the department, to open Primary Health Centres (PHCs) in Panikhanda, luhagudi, Raipanka and Gardama villages. The residents faced many problems during the bandh.