Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh approved additional rehabilitation package for the Naya Raipur Project-affected villagers, which includes and ensure residential plot to each affected family.
Most of the demands of affected villagers have been addressed in this newly-approved package.
The affected villagers were relieved when Chief Minister Dr singh presiding over the meeting of Sashakt Samiti at Mantralaya (Mahanadi Bhavan), informed about the issue in an official statement on Wednesday.
This additional rehabilitation package includes allotment of 'patta' based on actual encroachment in known populated areas, allotment of residential plot of maximum 1200 sq ft to each affected family in case of encroachment before 10 August 2005, allotment of compensation based on the data before updation of land records.
In this meeting, Housing and Environment Minister Rajesh Munat, Agriculture Minister Chandrashekhar Sahu, Tribal Caste and Scheduled Caste Development Minister Kedar Kashyap, Chief Secretary Sunil Kumar, NRDA Chairman N Baijendra Kumar, and other members of the committee were also present.
Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh instructed the officials to organize self-employment training programmes for the youths of affected villages. He added that the youths should be given training in various skills like stonemasons (Rajmistri), electrician etc keeping in view the demand of manpower in ongoing construction works in Naya Raipur.
He also instructed the concerned officials to allot shops to the youths of affected villages with priority.
It was informed in the meeting that as per the additional rehabilitation package, NRDA will acquire the land based on requirement of the project, and provide compensation as per the guidelines of year 2011-12 for the Government lands that have been evidently encroached before 1 November, 1992 (proof records and documents should be available) and thereafter used for cultivation purpose.
Meanwhile, other projects of Naya Raipur were also discussed in the meeting, in presence of Secretary to Chief Minister Subodh Singh, Chief Executive Officer NRDA SS Bajaj, Raipur District Collector Siddhartha Komal Singh Pardeshi and other officials.