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Rayagada, March 30: Life was paralysed in Rayagada town Monday by a 12-hour bandh observed by the Zilla Adivasi Yuva Samaj, a tribal organisation.
Hundreds of activists of the outfit picketed at different places in the town to ensure that the bandh is successful. They also took out a bike rally from Maa Majhighariani temple.
All shops, hotels, schools, colleges, petrol pumps, banks and private institutions in the town remained closed during the bandh.
The outfit had given the bandh call to press for their 11-point charter of demands, which includes creating district-level cadre for appointing shikhya sahayaks, setting up a tribal university, agriculture university and a law college in the district, establishing a health centre in every gram panchayat, filling up all vacant posts of doctors at the district headquarters hospital and taking steps to solve the unemployment problem in the district.
The leaders of the organization, led by the president of the Yuva Samaj, Pratap Puaala, presented a memorandum to the chief minister through the district administration listing out the demands.
The administration made adequate security arrangements to prevent any untoward incidents during the bandh. Two platoons of police were deployed at Koraput Square, Gajapati Square, Kapilash Square, Sarla Square, main market and station road to keep the law and order situation under control.
