A number of displaced families who supported the Posco project on Monday said they would stage a Dharna before Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's residence on April 26 in the wake of reports that the Government may leave out their village from the project area due to opposition by a sections of the locals.
"We will walk all the way from Badagabapur in the Posco area to Bhubaneswar and stage a dharna before the Chief Minister's residence," said Chandan Mohanty, a representative of one of the 52 families comprising 200 heads of Patana village from Dhinkia gram panchayat.
Mohanty said they were being given a meagre Rs20 per head daily for sustenance at the rehabilitation colony and uncertainty stared at them as the Government is reportedly thinking of leaving out their village from the project area.
Mohanty said women, children and elderly persons would also set out for Bhubaneswar to highlight their plight.
Driven out on June 26, 2007 from their village, the pro-Posco families are given shelter by the administration in a tin-roofed transit colony.
They had supported the administration in face of strong anti-Posco protests but now feel let down.