Opening of control room by June 1

Opening of control room by June 1

….District level meeting is organized in DRDA

…. Compensation for the farmers by June 15

Chatrapur/Ganjam: Ganjam is a coastal district and most of the year it is affected by natural calamity. So, to solve this problem 24 hour control room facility will be opened by June 1, directed district administration in the active presence of Revenue Minister Surya Narayana Patro in a district level meeting organized in DRDA conference hall at Chatrapur.

The administration also directed that, the very sensible areas at the time of natural calamity should be given priority. The supply of food items and daily usages along with 75 rubber boats, four wooden boats and 18 cyclone shelters should ready before monsoon season begin.

About crop lose and compensation for the farmer discussion also takes place in the meeting. All farmers, who have incurred crop loss in December, will be paid the compensation by June 15, Patro said.

Crop in 2.95 lakh hectares cultivated by 4.99 lakh farmers were destroyed in December. So far, Rs 11 crore 54 lakh has been distributed among the farmers as compensation and the rest will be paid by June 15 said Ganjam Collector Dr Kishan Kumar.

Patro also informed about the set up of Vidyut Pachayat in each village panchayat, which control illegal hooking, meter tampering, low voltage, power cut, dysfunctioning of transformer in the village level.

The minister asked the administration to speed-up the task of electrification under Biju Gramajyoti Yojana and Rajivgandhi Gramajyoti yojana.

Among others, Law Minister Bikram Keshari Arukh, Berhampur MP Sidhanta Mahapatra, Rajya Sabha Member Renubala Pradhan, the MLAs of the district, ADM and other officers were present over the review meeting.