The Pioneer 27.08.2010
Puri DC asked to speed up development works
PNS | Puri
At a high-level meeting chaired by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in Bhubaneswar on Monday, a number of important decisions were taken to make Puri a beautiful and safe city.
The Chief Minister expressed displeasure with local officials for the inordinate delay in implementation of various important decisions taken by the Government in the past.
He asked the district collector to initiate steps for relocation of the colony of the seafaring fishermen called nolias, now existing in close proximity to the sea near Chakratirtha Road, to a safer place.
The collector revealed that there are as many as 3,628 fishermen families in the colony and a five-acre patch of land in Siddha Mahavir Patna not very far from the sea was allocated for their resettlement.
In the first phase, seven hundred families would be provided with houses in multi-storeyed buildings to be built under the Basic Service to Urban Poor, a Central Government scheme while others would be provided houses under the Rajiv Awas Yojana.
The waste water disposal would be streamlined. The defunct waste water treatment plant would be renovated and made operational soon. The treated waste water would be released to deep sea, the CM said. He insisted to remove all illegal encroachments from the beach at the earliest.
Top engineers of PHD, officials of the State Pollution Control Board, Housing and Urban Development Department, District Magistrate and the Executive Officer of Puri civic body were present in the meeting and apprised the Chief Minister about the progress.
