Saturday, July 30, 2011

‘Permanent solution to agriculture and health problem is need of the hour’

14 th Zilla Parishad meeting of Ganjam held

Berhampur: After a hue and cry of lingering the time schedule of meeting, finally 14th Zilla Parishad (ZP) meeting of Ganjam district held in DRDA conference hall at Chatrapur on Friday.

The members were discussed about various issues of the district in the meeting. They demanded proper distribution of last year’s crop loss compensation, as the new Kharif season has been started. CPI members warned in the meeting that how government is prepared to tackle the drought situation, which is approaching in Ganjam due to erratic rainfall in the district according to the prior information of Agriculture department.

Some members informed in the meeting about shortage of school teacher and students agitation in front of the office of District Inspector of schools in Ganjam block and other blocks of the district.

Most of the members were expressed their dissatisfaction about the delaying and lingering of time schedule of ZP meeting. “According to the rule 11 of Odisha Zilla Parishad manual, ZP should hold it’s meeting in three months duration, which is violated here. After 4-5 months duration the meeting is held today”, said ZP member Kailash Palei. He further demanded that we need a Permanent solution to the problems regarding agriculture, health and education in the district.

In the ZP meeting, we have given stress in the discussion on agriculture, health along with other developmental works of the district. Apart from that, we discussed about minor irrigated land, erratic rainfall and how to tackle the upcoming drought situation in the district”, informed ZP chairman Kamraju Sethi to The Pioneer on Friday.

All the 69 members of ZP were present in the meeting chaired by ZP chairman Kamraju Sethi. Among others, District Magistrate of Ganjam Krishan Kumar, DRDA Project Director M Muthukumar, Berhampur MP Sidhant Mahapatra, Chatrapur MLA Adikanda Sethi, Kavisuryanagar MLA V. Sugnani Deo with other MLAs and MPs of the district.

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