Andhra Pradesh’s acts of intrusion and forcible road construction works have now worried the Gajapati district administration as a village was found encroached by the neibouring State recently.
Being informed, Gajapati district Collector Anupam Shah along with other officers visited Madiakhal village under Gangabada GP in Rayagarh block and was astonished to see that road construction work going on there by the Andhra Pradesh administration. The Collector soon asked the AP Government to stop construction works.
According to information, the neighbouring State has constructed roads and established solar power system taking advantages of its wilderness and infrastructure laxity. It has also distributed Voter I-Cards. Villagers have stated that they have depended on the Andhra Pradesh Government for all these as the Gajapati district administration didn’t listen to their demands.
During his visit, the Collector talked to villagers and wanted to know about their basic needs and developmental programmes undertaken by Odisha and AP Governments in the village where a total of 11 families comprising 50 people are living.
The Collector directed the concerned officials to provide drinking water and electricity to all households and construct a 4-km road connecting Madiakhala and Akhada at the earliest. The Collector too asked officers to issue Voter I-Cards to villagers in Gajapati district address. The borderline was inspected by him.
Besides, a health checkup camp was held in his present. Dr Bijaykrushna Das and Dr Manoj Kumar Behera examined health of villagers.
Among others, Additional District Collector Dhrubaraj Pandey, District Forest Officer Goutam Nayak, ACFO Prabhakar Nayak, Sub-Collector Ranjan Kumar Biswal, BDO Nrushingha Charan Sethi, Election Officer Achyutananda Jani, Tehsildar Janata Bhuyan and
ITDA Project Administrator Parikshita Sethi were present.