Representatives of the Swadhinata Sangrami Saheed Smruti Sansad (SSSSS), Odisha, on Tuesday called on different Ministers and submitted a 24-point charter of demands to them seeking their intervention.
The delegation led by Sansad president Rutuparna Mohanty and former MlA Rabi labyana met Minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak and Ashok Panda and Odisha Khadi and Village Industry Board Chairman Tejeswar Parida and many others and handed them over their demands and urged them to ensure Government efforts to locate and develop the places of martyrdom relating to freedom struggle in the State.
The demands included setting up a museum in the memory of martyrs and freedom fighters in Bhubaneswar on an area of minimum ten acres of land with provision to display the martyrs of each district, their status and description of the events relating to them, the materials used by them and other related photographs for the tourists, publication of a Government calendar covering the sacrifice and the birthday details of martyrs and freedom fighters, provision of special identity cards for the family members of each of the martyrs and arrangements made for their tax-free travel, Saheed Awas to the family members of each martyr with a minimum of Rs5 lakh, free medical facilities and establishment a library, sales centre of Khadi products, honey and indigenous items through the Khadi and Village Industry Board at each historically memorial sites.
Rutuparna Mohanty said Sansad members would also meet the Finance Minister and the Chief Minister shortly to apprise them about their demands.