BHUBANESWAR: The Samajwadi Party Odisha State Committee on Wednesday urged Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to intervene in the matter to negotiate with the people sitting in the hunger strike for implementation of the Lower Suktel Irrigation Project at Balangir.
The party president Rabi Behera
said the foundation stone for the said project was laid by the Chief Minister 11
years back on 2001, when the project cost was 217 crore rupees which is now
reached at the level of 1076 crore rupees. If the said project is implemented
it will cater to the need of drinking water of Balangir and will be able to
provide irrigation facility for the farmers of Balangir and Sonepur, he added.
He also said the districts with
an irrigation potentiality would be increased from present 3 per cent to 27 per
cent. It would also be beneficial to growth of forest from 11 per cent to 33
per cent. Though around 10 thousand households of 26 villages would be
displaced, proper rehabilitation facility can solve the problems with the
active intervention of the Chief Minister, he added.
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