Presiding over the Rehabilitation and Peripheral Development Advisory Committee (RPDAC) meeting held at the Collector office here on Wednesday, RDC (North) Dr Pramod Kumar Meherda stressed on the need for expediting rehabilitation process of land losers and provision of employment to at least a person in each displaced family in the undivided Dhenkanal district.
Attending the meet, local MP Tathagat Satpathy said all the industries should deposit five per cent of their profit to the peripheral development fund to facilitate developmental works in the district. Except the vice-president of the GMR Energy Kamalanga, all top officials of Bhushan Steels, Nababharat Ventures and CESU Power took part in the discussion, which focused on peripheral development, rehabilitation and employment to local youths.
Among others, district Collector Rupa Roshan Sahu, Zilla Parishad president Binodini Samal, SP Manoranjan Mohanty, ADM Susama Rani Devi, DRDA Project Director Surendra Prasad Das, district sub-collector Anil Kumar Pattnaik and Hindol sub-collector Atulya Kumar Champatiray spoke.