A public hearing for a proposed 10-million-tonne steel plant of the Rungta company was held at Karakhendra under Joda block on Friday.
Senior GM (Commercial) Pranaya Kumar Dey read out the project report of the proposed steel plant and total 33 local villagers gave their opinions in support of the project. But at the same time, they demanded that the company should look after the CSR activities like employment, health, drinking water, development of communication facilities and pollution etc.
AGM (Works) Charan Kumar Jena agreed to fulfill the demand of the local villagers. ADM, Keonjhar, Dr Bhaktabandhu Pradhan who presided over the meeting declared the public hearing as successful. Regional Pollution Control Officer Pushpendru Kumar Behera coordinated. Among others Additional Tehsildar, Barbil, Manoj Kumar Deo, Joint VP(HR and ADM) R Agrawalla, AVP(logistic) RP Singh, DGM(HR) BR Das and DGM (HR and CSR) lN Rout were present.