Thursday, April 12, 2012

Cong protests Govt apathy to Balangir THURSDAY, 12 APRIL 2012 17:41 PNS | BALANGIR HITS: 63


 Bhubaneswar http://www.dailypioneer.com/templates/ja_teline_iv/images/arrow.png Cong protests Govt apathy to Balangir
THURSDAY, 12 APRIL 2012 17:41
PNS | BALANGIR
HITS: 63
·         E-mail
·         Print
·         PDF
Members of Balangir District Congress Committee led by president Bhagbana Bagarti and leaders Hemanta Panda, Renuka Patra and Akash Mishra, staged a dharna before the District Collectroate here on Wednesday protesting against the apathy of the State Government in solving the problems of the district.
Holding a meeting, the speakers criticised the BJD Government headed by Naveen Patnaik for not taking steps to solve the problems of the district.
Addressing the gathering, Balangir Mahila Congress president Renuka Patra rued that the women are not feeling safe to move in the evening. She also complaint about misbehaviour of the police toward a woman recently. She flayed the district administration for frequent power failure and leaks of the HSC question paper and demanded strong action against the culprit.
Later, the Congress leaders submitted a seven-point memorandum to the Governor through the district administration, including payment of crop damage compensation of `20,000 per acre due to drought, immediate payment of crop insurance money to the victim farmers, roll back of hike in electricity tariff, steps to check irregular power supply, probe into the alleged irregularities in junior clerk recruitment, action against the concerned officials, expediting lower Suktel irrigation work and adequate supply of pipe water to the people.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Padayatra held to protect G’mardan from forest fire and other forest fire news and stories of Bolangirand odisha since2013

  Padayatra held to protect G’mardan from forest fire Saturday, 09 March 2013 17:10 PNS | BALANGIR Hits: 20 With a view to sensitisi...