"A detailed project report (DPR) for setting up a wagon maintenance plant at Kantabanji has been sent and we are hopeful it would come up there and we are waiting for the good news," said Balangir MP Sangeeta Singh Deo speaking to mediapersons at the end of the District Planning Committee meeting on Friday here.
Chairman of District Planning Committee, Patnagarh MLA Saroj Meher presided.
A total of 87 Kendriya Vidyalayas have been approved out of which four would be in Odisha and two of them would be in Balangir district, Singhdeo informed further. The KVs would be functional by next academic session, Singhdeo revealed.
In the meeting, various issues pertaining to development of Balangir district were discussed. The district Collector informed that in three subdivisions of the district, 50 acres of land has been identified for establishment of textile mills, be it by Government or by private venture.
In the meeting there was absence of specific response from Government to check the migration from the district and how to provide them with employment, said Balangir MLA Narasingha Mishra.
Whatever proposal were given in the last meeting ,no concrete answer came from the Government, he alleged.
No specific response came from the Government for reopening of a sugar mill at Deogaon or textile mills in the district, MLA Mishra lamented.
The district planning body unanimously adopted a resolution to pursue the issue of setting of a wagon maintenance factory at Kantabanji, informed Kantabanji MLA Santosh Singh Saluja.