- It is not clear why a joint inspectection team of east coast railway authority and district administration of Ganjam made inspection for site selection, whereas NO such joint inpection was done in Kalahandi, if state Govt. was serious Kalahandi as a site.
- Some of the land available in Kalahandi such as one in Kesinga, Jaring (Badchergaon) does not need even 2.5 km rail link, they are touching railway track.
- Most of the lands in Kalahandi does not need acquisition of agricultural field like the state Govt. identified site in Ganjam.
- There is land of similar scale even 2-3 km from the Bhawanipatna town itslef if urbanisation was by chance a criteria.
- There is definitely an internal agreement between state Govt. and east coast railway authority to favor home district of the Cheif Minister
- As per sources (need to be confimed) railway ministry has asked to find land in Bhubaneswar/Kalahandi, then how Ganjam came to picture if the state Govt. was not keen?
- This clearly exposes another mean mindedness of Naveen Babu's Government in the history of Orissa knowing the fact that state Govt is all in all while identifying land and site for any project.
Bhubaneswar:28/March/2011
Naveen Patnaik has favored the proposed Rail Wagon manufacturing factory in Ganjam.
The Chief Minister in a letter to the Union Minister Railways has specified about the land available for the wagon factory to be taken up in Public Private Partnership (PPP) or Joint Venture (JV) mode.
Once the announcement to set up a Rail Wagon factory in Odisha in the Railways Budget for 2011-12, East Coast Railways moved fast to identify the land for such Greenfield project in the State Government.
They scouted in various places of the state including that of Kalahandi for which Bhakta Charan Das is making serious efforts to impress upon the Union Government.
However the State Administration moved fast and along with experts of the Indian Railways in East Coast Railways have located a patch of 101 acres of plot at Sitapalli near Jagannathpur Railway Station, in Berhampur tahsil said sources.
Experts feel that this place will be eminently suitable as the land is available in a contiguous patch.
Secondly it will be suitable from the railway point of view as it will only require 2.5 kilometer rail link.
And the proposed link will pass through the agricultural field for which land acquisition shall not be a problem.
Under this backdrop, the Chief Minister has urged upon the Minister Railways to take early steps for setting up the wagon factory at an early date.
Odisha faces serious problem for land acquisition required for industries.
East Coast Railways has found out that the entire rail link will be extended solely to be used by Indian Railways authorities.
Other report in Sambad: http://www.orissasambad.com/news_article.php?id=50251
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