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Dharmagarh/ Bolangir/ Nuapada, Jan 27: The state government is committed to the all-round development of Kalahandi district, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said Tuesday while addressing Bikash Samabesh, a huge public rally organised by the local unit of BJD here.
A Rs 1,000 crore mega lift irrigation project would be launched for the farmers of Dandapat, considered to be the most neglected region of Kalahandi district while initiatives to establish a medical college, an engineering college, a polytechnic school, a nursing college and an agriculture university have already been taken for the development of the district, Patnaik said.
Besides, the BJD government lays emphasis on the development of women, fast disbursal of funds for educational schemes, pucca houses for the poor people of rural areas and development of better road network facility to the state capital under Biju Express scheme, Patnaik added.
The Chief Minister, after arriving here at Panchayat ground in a helicopter, inaugurated six projects and laid foundation stones for as many projects at one go. The projects unveiled on the occasion were 367-bed girls’ hostel and 367-bed boys’ hostel at a cost of Rs eight crore each of Kalahandi Engineering College, Rs four crore workshop building of the engineering college, Rs seven crore GNM School and its hostel at Kamathana in Bhawanipatna, laboratory and additional classroom of Bhawanipatna Government Women’s College and 100-bed ST girls’ hostel of the college.
Foundation stones laid for the projects included local NAC office building (Rs 1.5 crore), hostel for Dharmagarh Women’s College (Rs 15 lakh), Dharmagarh Kalyan Mandap (Rs one crore), a drinking water supply project (Rs 1.74 crore), 200-bed ST girls’ hostel on OUAT premises (Rs 1.80 crore) and ST boys’ hostel (Rs 1.80 crore).
Housing and urban development minister Pushpendra Singhdeo presided over the meet. Tight security arrangements were made to keep Maoists activities at bay as the meeting ground was just a few kilometers from Chhattisgarh border, a report said.
Meanwhile, the chief minister Tuesday said that the Notified Area Council status for Tusura would open new vistas for development in Tusura. The CM was addressing a public meeting at Tusura, 40 km from Bolangir. “My government has all along taken steps for development of backward areas and women’s empowerment. If people of Tusura cooperate and support in this endeavour, it could be a model NAC,” he said. The CM laid foundation stones for 10 projects worth Rs 3 crore at Tusura. He also laid the foundation stone for a girls’ hostel 40 km from here.
Patnaik also visited Nuapada district Tuesday and inaugurated the much awaited 132/33 KV sub-grid station at Bhera, and laid the foundation stone for the proposed seven-storey building for non-communicable diseases on the premises of district headquarters
hospital. Patnaik, at a meet at police ground in Nuapada, said growth of the state is impossible without people’s cooperation.
