To restore peace and communal amity in the Pattamundai municipality area, the district administration on Sunday organised a peace committee meeting.
The meeting was organised under the chairmanship of district Collector Debendra Prasad Das and was attended by Kendrapada SP Nitinjeet Singh, Kendrapada MlA Kishore Tarei, Rajnagar MlA Ansuman Mohanty, BJD district president Dhruba Sahu, former MlA Alekha Jena, former Minister Ganeswar Behera , SDPO Nisikant Pradhan, besides senior officials , intellectual masses, members of Pattamundai Banika Sangha and representatives of the Hindu and Muslim villagers.
The peace committee meeting was fruitful as both the communities agreed to maintain peace. It was decided that both the community members have to respect each others’ religious sentiments .The road of the Pattamundai basti would be used by both the communities and whenever a community would organise a procession on the road, they would have to take prior permission from the police and district administration. Strict implementation of Supreme Court guidelines over blowing of loud speaker would be enforced.
SP Singh stated that the district administration would assess the situation on Monday and later, would be decided on vacating the Section 144 CrPC in the area.