A district-level Pani Panchayat Fortnight was organised under the chairmanship of Agriculture Deputy Director Rama Chandra Nayak here recently.
ADM Satchidananda Sahoo, Irrigation Executive Engineer Umakanta Mohanty, Agriculture Scientist Biswajit Patnaik, Assistant Engineers Devi Prasad Nanda, Dalapati Mandal, SK Nayak, Lasa Murmu, DAO Pramod Kumar Mallick, ZP members Jagannath Muduli and Lata Das, farmers representatives Bishnu Swain and Kalandi Bastia were present.
Farmer’s representatives alleged that the progarmme has failed to achieve its goal due to lack of coordination among line departments and negligence of engineers.
Admitting large scale discrepancies, Executive Engineer Mohanty said, “We have decided to streamline the programme in the sub-division level. The Pani Panchayat meeting will be held every month with farmers and Pani Panchayat members. The canal water supply will be properly managed.”