IBNlive, April 5, 2011
Bhubaneswar, Apr 5 (PTI) Accusing the Orissa government of adopting a 'step motherly' attitude towards backward Kalahandi district, Opposition Congress MLAs today demanded immediate identification of land for a wagon factory in the poverty stricken district.The issue relating to the wagon factory in Kalahandi was raised during the zero hour by Leader of the Opposition Bhupinder Singh of Congress. "The state government is depriving Kalahandi of a central project as the ruling party was defeated in the last election." Of the total six assembly segments in Kalahandi district, the opposition Congress won in five while one seat went in favour of the ruling BJD, he said.Singh, who also hailed from Kalahandi district, was supported by his party colleagues from the area."People in Kalahandi today staged dharna in front of all the 13 block offices demanding establishment of a wagon factory. The agitation is gradually intensifying," said Junagarh MLA Gobardhan Dash.Terming the state government's attitude towards Kalahandi as 'injustice', party MLA Dushmant Nayak claimed that about 100 plus acre of land were readily available near Narla railway station for establishing the factory.The opposition members also criticised the state government's statement that it could not find a suitable place in KBK region for setting up the wagon factory.Commerce and Transport minister Sanjeev Sahoo said the state government had identified a place in Ganjam district for the proposed factory.Railway minister Mamata Banerjee had announced in Parliament that her ministry would have no hesitation in sanctioning another wagon factory to Orissa if the state government provided land in Kalahandi district. PTI AAM BBN
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