Good step: Kandhamal demands a medical or an ayurvedic college or a college for science and technology in the district

Bar members seek medical college in Kandhamal
Expressbuzz, Oct 5, 2009

PHULBANI: Members of Phulbani Bar Association submitted a memorandum containing a charter of demands to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik during his visit to the district recently.

The demands included extension of the two -year period under Orissa Scheduled Areas Transfer of Immovable Property (by scheduled tribes) Amendment Regulation 2000 which came into force on September 4, 2002. Due to the amendment, a number of people, other than scheduled tribes, will be rendered homeless as they are totally ignorant about the law, the members contended.

They also urged the Chief Minister to ask Women and Child Development Department to take over the management of District Disabled Rehabilitation Centre as it is plagued by fund crunch.

They also demanded immediate steps to fill up the vacant posts in the headquarters hospital and rural health centres of the district.

As Phulbani is a growing town, a number of encroachment cases are pending since long. So they appealed to settle the non-objectionable lands under “Sarva Kshyama” scheme in favour of the encroached persons taking premia as admissible. For higher education, the memorandum demanded establishment of a medical or an ayurvedic college or a college for science and technology in the district.

Advocates Samarendra Pattnaik, Bijaya Mohanty, Rabi Mishra and Pratap Patra submitted the memorandum to Chief Minister. Naveen assured to take steps in this regard.

MP THANKS CM: Kandhamal MP Rudra Madhab Ray expressed his gratefulness to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in a statement for extending KBK type scheme to the tribal-dominated district by launching Biju Kandhamal Yojana.

He said when he put forth a demand before the Centre to include the district in KBK Plan, the latter rejected it outright. But the Chief Minister felt that development of such a backward district can only be possible by extending KBK type scheme, he said. By the announcement of the Chief Minister a long-standing demand of the people of the district was fulfilled, Ray said.