Berhampur: After a week, violence-hit Kodala area is returning back to normalcy, though the simmering tension was there in few places against the resettlement of Eragola community in Kodala area. The Aska-Bhubaneswar road blockade was cleared and the communication resumed in the area on Wednesday.
The district administration started clearing the Aska-Bhubaneswar main road from felled trees and logs, which were used for road blockade by the raged villagers after the arresting of 45 villagers by the police. The team started repairing the road, which was dug by the villagers near Khajapalli, Deogaon, Chachina protesting the police firing on Friday. There was no vehicular traffic, no communication, and no transportation in the village areas till Tuesday evening as the defiant villagers had put logs on the road again in the evening which was cleared by the district administration in the morning, but on Wednesday the road was cleared by the district administration. It is reported that Aska-Bhubaneswar road blockade was cleared and the communication resumed in the area.
Police forces are leaving the area gradually. The situation is improving day by day, but the defiant villagers are stick in their demand to evacuate the Eragola community from their area.
To meet the health need of the people due to violence hit in the area, district administration and Block administration have organized four health camps in the village areas of Kodala. Tehsildar of Kavisuryanagar Vivekananda Sahu, BDO Sudarshan Sethi and Mediacal Officer Basanta Kumar Das were present in the camp organized near Khajapalli Panchayat office. The villagers of Mathasarasingi, Phasi, Digapada were attended the health camp.
District Magistrate Krishan Kumar along with Additional District Magistrate Nirmala Mishra, Kavisuryanagar BDO Sudarshan Sethi and CDPO Terescobha Mallick has visited the village primary schools and Anganwadi centers of Deogaon, Khajapalli, Khairapalli and Bahalpalli. They have reviewed the condition of the schools, mid-day meal programme and student attendance with the respective teachers of the school.
District administration has distributed compensation cheques of Rs 2 lakh to the bereaved families of the deceased Narayana Palei of Khajapalli village, who was killed by police firing on Friday. in the presence of local Sarpanch Susanti Palei, Tehsildar of the area Vivekananda Sahu has given the cheque to the mother of the deceased Nirmala Palei in the direction of the District Magistrate of Ganjam.
A week has been passed, but peace committee could not be formed, while the villagers are stick in their decision of evacuating the Eragola community from Kodala area continuously for two times. Formation of peace committee again failed on Monday and Tuesday. But the local BDO has informed that they will form the peace committee soon within one or two days, as Chief Minister directed to the local BDO and Tehsildar to form the peace committee with the help of police to restore peace in the violence hit Kodala area.
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