Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has written a letter to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik urging him to solve various problems of the displaced people of the lower Indra irrigation project.
He said that the displaced people’s forum the ‘Jan Sachetan Manch’ had apprised him about their plight.
Pradhan said that according to the displaced people, the State Government was not taking sufficient actions to mitigate their sufferings. Pradhan also requested the Chief Minister to consider the 7-point charter of demands of the displaced and take necessary action for their welfare.
Notably, the displaced people’s forum has highlighted a host of issues, including rehabilitation, implementation of the decisions of the RPDAC, extension of the cutoff date for the identifying the beneficiaries, compensation to the married girls, education, health, transportation, electricity, water supply, sanitation and livelihood problems.