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SEPTEMBER 2012 22:59
PNS | BALANGIR
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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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