District labour Officer (DlO) Bighnajit Mahant Mohapatra submitted a detailed preliminary inquiry report to the district Collector and the State labour Commissioner on the people of the district who have been stranded in the trouble- torn Iraq and urged the higher authorities to take necessary steps to bring them back.
The report has cited that as many as five youths of Aul and Pattamundai police limits are stranded the in violence torn Iraq.
They have been identified as Basudev Tripathy(25) working as assistant cook, Niranjan Tripathy(31) and Rasmiranjan Tripathy(24), working as supervisors, Madan Mohan Mallick (28) and Santosh Kumar Mahalik, working as plumbers. While Madan belongs to Nandininagar under Pattamundai police limits, Santosh hails from Sandhapalli village under Pattamundai police limits.
The rest three youths belong to Mahu village under Aul police limits.
The family members of these youths had earlier requested the district administration to rescue them from the war ravaged country and bring them back home.