Thursday, September 27, 2012

Balangir Suktel Project faces resistance WEDNESDAY, 26 SEPTEMBER 2012 22:59 PNS | BALANGIR HITS: 26 · · ·


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WEDNESDAY, 26 SEPTEMBER 2012 22:59
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A day before the proposed commencement of its construction work, the`1,041-crore Lower Suktel Irrigation Project faced stiff resistance with members of the Lower Suktel Sangram Parishad holding demonstration at the project site in Balangir on Wednesday.
Hundreds of Parishad members holding red flags marched to the project site in the morning and shouted anti-Government slogans and demanded stopping of work scheduled to start from Thursday. In order to prevent any untoward incident, four platoons of armed police forces have been deployed at the site, said official sources.
Officials of the State-run Odisha Construction Corporation, which has been awarded the contract for the project work, had inspected the project site on Tuesday carrying machineries. The project, which got the State Government’s approval way back in 1999, will affect around 5,309 families of 29 villages, if implemented.

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