The Center has given 60 per cent assistance for a medical college hospital at Balangir. CM Naveen Patnaik had inaugurated the MCH building a few months ago hurriedly. However, as the medical building does not have fire safety and pollution control clearance, the work of the project is not progressing.
Patnagarh MlA and BJP legislature Party leader KV Singh Deo while addressing the party workers here told this. The BJP workers gheraoed the Collectorate, protesting against all-around failure of the Naveen Patnaik-led BJD Government here on Saturday.
Moreover, the mega lift irrigation scheme at Gudvela inaugurated by the Chief Minister is still not fully functional and farmers are not getting its benefit, Singh Deo alleged.
The lower Suktel irrigation project which was supposed to be completed by 2002 is yet to be completed in 2018. The present BJD Government at the State is only taking steps for propaganda, observed Singh Deo.
Even as the Upper lanth irrigation project has been sanctioned since long, no step is taken to start the project, he lamnted. Moreover, as the district administration has not sent a list of candidates to the
Center,152 candidates have not got the appointment in Ordnance factory, Singhdeo alleged further.
BJP Krushak Morcha president Shivaji Mohanty criticised the NaveenPatnaik Government for his anti-farmer policy. Among others, district BJP president BhaktaBandhu Naik, Gopalji Panigrahi, Prabhas Panigrahi, Ajaya Bali criticized the Naveen Patnaik Government for the backwardness of Balangir district.