A meeting was held between Dhenkanal Collector Roopa Roshan Sahoo and Bhumihina Praja Samiti State president Debashisha Hota to solve land patta issue of hundreds of landless in the district.
ADM Jyoti Ranjan Pradhan and Dhenkanal Sub Collector Abani Kanta Pattanaik, besides 39 core committee members of the Samiti, participated in the discussion.
Collector Sahoo expressed her surprise over the fact that the landless people whose number is over 1,000 have been staying in Kamakhyanagar and Dhenkanal towns for last 100 years without having been issue land pattas. She assured to report the sensitive matter to the State Government in 12 days. Besides, she also ordered all Tehsildars to issue RORs to all landless staying in rural areas.
Sahoo was told that Kamakhyanagar Sub-Collector Kalpataru Behera was not obeying her repeated orders to evict former BJD district youth president of Dhenkanal and former Chairman of Kamakhyanagar NAC Jashobanta Parida from a Government land.
The Samiti said that Steel and Mines Minister and Kamakhyanagar MlA Prafulla Mallick was backing Parida and demanded Chief Minister Naveen Pattanaik to sack Mallick besides Kamakhyanagar Sub-Collector Behera, SDPO Seikh Abdul Karim and IIC Pravat Tripathy for not performing their duties properly.
Notably, about 2,000 landless people had been lathicharged near the Dhenkanal railway station two days back while they were coming to Bhubaneswar to organise a rally.