Khariar MLA Adhiraj Mohan Panigrahi asked the Executive Engineer of Rural Development department, Khariar division, to discuss about completion of a road work connecting Dhanksar to Duajhar village of Khariar block.
The longstanding demand of the people of Dhanksar village for construction of a bridge on a small river that kept the village aloof for four months in a year from the State Highway was fulfilled after a long time.
The road connects many villages of Ranimunda Panchayat to Khariar town. The bridge was constructed but the approach road was left incomplete due to problems in land acquisition. "In spite of construction of the bridge our problem remained intact," said the people.
Panigrahi invited the EE to visit the site. The people of Dhanksar village and, the Sarpanches of Ranimunda and Sardhapur Gram Panchayats were also invited to the work site to discuss with them about the land acquisition problem.
The villagers demanded that the road be completed and they were ready to cooperate for it. The EE informed that lands of two out of six owners had been acquired. "Payment has been released to these two legal holders, but in the rest of the cases the acquisition was not possible because the legal holders are many. Funds required for acquiring the land have already been placed with the Land Acquisition Office, but they could not proceed because the land to be acquired is in a joint patta. All the members, who are legal holders of the patta have to be present," informed the EE.
When the MLA asked the villagers to get all the legal holders together, the villagers agreed to take that responsibility.
"I am in contact with the LAO for speeding up the process and will inform the MLA and the villagers once the official process is completed," informed the EE.
The MLA also advised the EE to take over a GP road from Kirkira to Mundapala- Kupia, so that the road could be developed to create the shortest route to Dharamgarh town of Kalahandi district via Hatibandha.