Initially BJD MPs in the parliament and other leaders claimed that 500 acres of land has been identified near Chhatrapur in Ganjam for Wagon Factory, the commerce and transport minister Sanjeev Sahoo also made a statement in Odisha assembly that there is no land in Narla in Kalahandi and Bhubaneswar for Wagon Factory.
Through our email letters (Dated March 1, March 5, and March 9, 2011) when we brought this issue to the notice of Odisha state Government that 100 acres is enough for Wagon Factory and plenty of land is available in Kalahandi (some state media also separately published land details with plot numbers), now the state Government has sent a new proposal to establish the Wagon Factory near Berhampur citing convenience of railway and proposed TATA industrial park near the site. It also now points out that site for Kesinga, Narla, etc was not suitable as per railway, when the proposal for Chhatrapur was already submitted.
TATA might be establishing an industrial park near the proposed Wagon Factory in Ganjam, but that is nothing to do with why Wagon Factory could not be established in Kalahandi as the region has plenty of lands near to railway track in Kesinga, Narla, Bhawanipatna, Jaring etc.
Raipur or Bhilai could have better infrastructure in terms of establishing Wagon Factory compare to present site indentified near Berhampur, does it mean Wagon Factory should come in Bhilai? This is totally injustice for Kalahandi when backward Kalahandi has a golden opportunity to have a Wagon Factory.
A joint inspection team of east coast railway authority and district administration of Ganjam made inspection for site selection in that district, but in Kalahandi no joint inspection team was formed, after seeing the site in Ganjam the railway officials hurriedly visited few places in Kalahandi and gave a recommendation to suit the Govt. This shows the intention was deliberate to shift to Ganjam.
If state Government had recommended the site in Kalahandi to central Govt. and central Govt. had not agreed then the situation could have been different. This is too when railway minister is openly favoring to have a Wagon Factory in Kalahandi in the parliament as well as other public meeting. Wagon Factory was also announced for Bhubaneswar or Kalahandi in the railway budget 2010-2011. Then how could state Government proposed in Ganjam?
This should be rectified by Orissa Government sending for a second proposal to have a second Wagon Factory in Kalahandi in the line of railway minister’s statement in the parliament on March 3, 2011.
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