Historical favoritism towards Ganjam by Orissa Government
- Number of proejcts being inagurated in Ganjam district in past 10 years by the Chief Minister is one of the highest in Orissa
- IIIT (central Govt funded information technology institute) in Orissa was proposed in Berhampur by the state Govt.
- CM and Higher Education minister had announced that Khallikote College will be a University soon even without announching much needed state University in South Western part of the state (KBK).
- Confidentially one University personal infomed a senior NRO that the state Govt. provided 40 cores of AID to Berhampur University and merely 10 crore to Sambalpur University in the name of SU-IIIT.
- State Governemnt has recommended for a High Court Bench in Berhampur for South Orissa when the location is less convinient to the people in KBK.
- Proposed railway Wagon Factory in the budget 2010-11 was shifted from Bhubaneswar/Kalahandi to Berhampur (Ganjam), home dist of CM.
- Berhampur has one of the highest numbers of soley state Government funded higher/technical education instutions in Orissa after the state capital compared to any other district or city in Orissa.
- Khordha and Ganjam are neighbouring districts but every thing (administrative offices) are established in Ganjam in the name South Orissa and not in far off place from state capital. It is much convinient for the peopple of Ganjam to reach Bhubaneswar than people in KBK to reach Ganjam, what sort of logic is operational except to exploit marginalized people in the state? If it was the case why not administrartive office in Rourkela?
- Despite without having any iron ore, coal, chromium, Biju Patnaik had politically convienced TATA to establish second steel plant in Gopalpur in Ganjam, fortunately political favorotim did not suit the company later on and TATA moved to Kalinga Nagar (though there is serious problem in Kalinga Nagar TATA group still prefers Kalinga Nagar over Gopalpur for steel plant which expose the political favoritim towards Ganjam by Biju Patnaik)
- Among the district Ganjam has highest population but its size (5th in Orissa) is comparable to Kalahandi and less than Mayurbhanj, Sundergarh, Keonjhar and Koraput. It has the maximum number of SH plus NH per 1000 sqkm of area, one of the highest in Orissa. Road should be constructed based on area rather than population. For example UP is 1.55 times larger by area than Orissa and 5.3 times larger by population than Orissa, but the NH in UP is 1.8 times than that of Orissa. Is Orissa following a similar guide line among its districts? Are the SH and NH in Kalahandi and Ganjam comparable? Last year state Govt spent 180 cores for highways in Ganjam compared to 18-30 crore in Kalahandi. Similarly, should Sundergarh, Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar and Koraput not have more SH and NH compared to Ganjam?
- Railway is a concern for Ganajm, but its not by state Govt rather by the central Govt for which state Govt is not able to favor its favorite district. However, there are districts in Orissa without having any rail network like Nabarangpur, Kandhamal whose size would be more than the half of size of Ganjam.
- For conservation of ecologically sensitive stone mountains (LANDA PAHADA), Orissa Govt last year spent 100% of the budget in Ganjam, when Ganjam has ~ 30%, Balangir has ~ 20%, Kalahandi has ~ 20%, Koraput has another substantial percentage of LANDA PAHAD in the state, why the budget was not distributed based on percentage? There is serious speculation that if there could have a substantial share in any of the other coastal district budget distribution would have been different. If its in KBK or Western Orissa policy is different.
- If one village has population 250 and another having 2000, than both the villages may need one school, but one having 2000 population may need more class rooms, teachers, books, blackboard etc. In the mean time first one must have a school. Ganjam has two times population than that of Kalahandi but it has 3212 villages compared to 2236 villages in Kalahandi. Is there a fairness in alloting budget in health, education and infrastructure?
- Ganjam receives highest number of MGNREGA schemes, which is acceptable as per population but not the SH and NH.
- Similarly regional institutions should come based on convinience and geography. If neighbouring undivided Ganajm could be considered for regional offices based on population than why not other neighbouring undivided Cuttack district for the same, when each undivided Cuttack and undivided Puri districts (capital and central RDC) had more population than undivided Ganjam district?
- MLA, Sri Jayanarayan Mishra alleged in the assembly of Orissa in past years that 30 % of Chief Minister's releif fund was spent only in Hinjilikatu contituency.
- Another one alleged that the money spent from state Govt. budget only in Hinjilikatu could be more than that of state Govt fund being spent in district like Malkangiri/Nuapada (exluding central Govt fund)
Correction: Another comparison between Rourkela and Berampur, this CM does not know anything except Bhubaneswar and Berhampur
http://www.rourkelacity.com/top-news/rdf-urged-for-municipal-corporation-status-to-rourkela/
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Then why the Central University was shifted to Koraput? Was the Chief Minister biased then? Did Koraput become his favourite Dist then?
Allmost all the institutions of National importance are established in Bhubaneswar. Then BBSR bacame his favourite. Infact the ESIC medical college was pursued by the state gvt to be established in the capital. People alleged that the CM was favouring the capital then.
The people who are shouting for indistry in Kalahndi (Ex; the MP Kalahandi) were chasing away industries in the past from the District by forming Green Kalahndi and were celebrating when Vedanta was shut down? Was the CM not trying for a mega industry in Kalahandi then? Was the importance of industry not known to the people then?
Railway Wagon factory if established in Ganjam will be the first railway project ater 1891 in the district when the Kolkata-Chennai railway line was established. Not a meter of railway line has been added after that.
ESIC issue is already known to people, other national institutes should also be distributed, that does not mean Ganjam is not benefited, we have clearly pointed earlier on what MP is doing or not. Its a controversial issues on Vedanta, not only Kalahandi MPs a bunch of people and intellecutals oppose Vedanta, including its proposal in Puri. Kalahandi MP has clearly stated they were not opposed to industrialisation by Vedanta, but some local who support Vedanta also now telling about injustice on Wagon Factory. There is no escape even if Ganjam did not have any railway projectsince 1891, Kandhamal and Nabarangpur do not have railway project since ages, it will not help wrong doing by the Govt to his home dist. Shame .. Shame
Central University Koraput too had a political interest, some BJD's infleuncial members have large amount of land there and BJD was eyeing more MLAs there. We are not disappointed that Koraput got it, but our disappointment was due to betrayal towards Kalahandi due to political gains. Indeed Koraput, Kalahandi and Kandhamal were only undivided dists without having any state or central Govt higher educational institute if we include Govt Ayurvedic college and Food and Craft Institute in Balangir.
Correction: Kalahandi MP has clearly stated they were not opposed to industrialisation but Vedanta due to tribal right.
@2 all odya lovers
we have to accept the truth,this cm is only for the capital city and his hometown(district)
what one can expect from a puppet non odiya cm???please its my request to all of you...next time plz dont vote for bjd
sir
an another comparison between rourkela and berampur
this cm is not giving anything instead of rkl and berampur
http://www.rourkelacity.com/top-news/rdf-urged-for-municipal-corporation-status-to-rourkela/
Thanks Situn Babu
If Orissa govt. will keep this type of cheap mentality & attitude then the They will surely face some movement like Telengana issue.
Naveen pattnaik very huge DOWN... DOWN....
sorry (typing mistake) n ma prevs comnt
**our cm doesnt know anything except bbsr and berampur decoration**
how russia was helping his friend india in the 1971 battle of longwala war,n the same way we will help you
we all are with you sir,kalahandi re railcoach factory heba....and also n d future i will give you ground updates regarding this from bbsr
This is simply intolerable. Enough is enough,
What does the state government thinks of itself? Every time the leaders are playing nasty politics and turning the table sin their favor.
But now it has to be stopped and such idiotic unworthy people should be kicked out of power.
Mass agitation needed in the whole of Western Odisha
I dont think any letter or petition is going to have any impact on these people
due to this type of coastal sasta rajneti sometimes i think for a separate state....
i dont think there will be any problem for us if we will carve out a new state..sufferor will be the costal odissa
another point is that less number of mps is not an issue for new state,in that case we can devide our districts into small districts and rourkela should be the rajdhani
"IICHA THILE SABU HEBA"
railway wagon factory should be established in the kalahandi ,
when we ve alredy got A green signal from centre then why state govt is showing its 3rd class policy??
Any tactic for shifting the railway plant from Ganjam, decided by a railway expert team and selected on merit will be opposed tooth and nail and if the puppet CM doesn't agree then get ready for a separate state of Kalinga Pradesh for South Orissa. We won't tolerate the injustice any more. Enough is enough.
If separate state in South Orissa is a solution then it would have been long back, the demand of Kalinga Pradesh does not have any seriousness except among few people only in Ganjam, even recently MLAs from undivided Koraput asked the Govt to include them in Western Orissa as Ganjam is eating everything in the name of South Orissa.
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