Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Sunday assured the people of Padampur Assembly constituency that Padampur subdivision will be made a separate district within a year.
Patnaik assured this to the people while addressing public meetings at Padampur, Paikamal and Jharbandh. Notably, the BJD won the Padampur byelection with a margin of more than 42,000 votes in December last.
The Chief Minister had announced to make Padampur a separate district during his campaign for the bypoll. “Last time, I announced something for the Padampur constituency. Out of that Paikmal primary health centre has been upgraded into a community health centre.
Work for Chakradhar dam project has already started and land for setting up of a 133/11 KV substation has been identified,” Patnaik said at the public meetings. Stating that he believes in action, not words, Patnaik assured the people to complete other works, promised during the bypoll, within the prescribed time frame.
The Chief Minister said he has sanctioned `64 crore for the development of the Padampur region. During the bypoll, many people of the Padampur area had met Patnaik and submitted proposals for development of each ward, panchayat and NAC of Padampur sub-division.
The fund has been sanctioned as per the proposal submitted by the people, which is first in the history of Odisha, said the CM. Taking a dig at the Union Ministers, who have visited the constituency during the last byelection, Patnaik said the Union Ministers have made many promises to the people about paddy procurement, crop insurance, railways, waive off of GST on kendu leaves, etc.
“My humble request to Lord Nrusinghanath to remind the central ministers about their promises,” he said. Notably, Union Ministers Narendra Singh Tomar, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Dharmendra Pradhan and Bisheswar Tudu have participated in the electoral campaigning during the byelection.
Tomar had said about distribution of crop insurance claims to beneficiary farmers while Vaishnaw raked up construction of railway line to Padampur and Pradhan stated about GST on kendu leaves.
During the meeting, the Chief Minister distributed credit support of `1.23 crore to women SHGs and said he hopes that the SHGs will become good entrepreneurs utilising the money.
PNN