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Stir for Suktel project enters 17th day Wednesday, 12 September 2012 23:15 SUDHIR MISHRA | BALANGIR Hits: 14


Wednesday, 12 September 2012 23:15
SUDHIR MISHRA | BALANGIR
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Even as eight days have elapsed since the announcement by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to start spillway construction of the Lower Suktel Irrigation Project from September 27 and hold talks with members of the Lower Suktel Action Committee, the committee members continued their indefinite fast here for the 17th day on Wednesday demanding implementation of the project.
Not a single high-level official has yet turned up here to hold discussion with the agitators.
A committee leader, Arun Mishra, said, “Until any official like the Secretary of Water Resources Department or the Revenue Secretary or the RDC of Northern Division comes and holds discussion with us within next 72 hours, the district Collector’s office here will be paralysed and the government will be held responsible for any such situation. This was decided at a meeting of the committee on Tuesday evening.
The meeting also decided not to oppose visit of local MLA AU Singh Deo to Balangir, Mishra informed further.
On the other hand, the Lower Suktel Dam Budi Anchal Sangram Parishad on Wednesday reiterated its opposition to the irrigation project.
“We have been opposing the project since the beginning, and we will oppose construction of spillway of the project on September 27,” a Parishad leader, Uday Singh Thakur.
The Government should go in for construction of small dams to provide irrigation to land which would cause almost no displacement of people, he said.
According to reports, when an official tried to proclaim Section 4(1) of the Land Acquisition Act to acquire land at Budhabahal and Banchhorpali villages, the locals opposed the move, as a result of which the official had to return from the area.

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