The ruling BJD on Friday constituted a 12-member team to visit the sites of barrage projects upstream the Mahanadi being constructed by the Chhattisgarh Government.
The team, constituted with the approval of Chief Minister and BJD president Naveen Patnaik, would be headed by party vice-president and Rajya Sabha member Prassana Acharya while Finance Minister Pradip Amat, Industries Minister Debi Prasad Mishra, Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Minister Sanjay Dasburma and party leaders Rohit Pujari, Kishore Mohanty, Sushant Singh, Padmanabh Behera, Pratap Keshari Deb, Pramila Mallik and Raseswari Panigrahi would be the other members.
It is scheduled to visit
the construction sites on August 7 and 8, a statement of the BJD stated.
The committee would consult with a technical advisory panel with former engineers of Water Resources Department Sarat Mohanty, Sridhar Behera and Ramesh Rath as its members. If needed, the BJD team would hold discussions with other parties, experts and members of civil society before preparing a comprehensive report and submitting it to the Chief Minister, the statement added.