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More hostels will be set up for tribal girls, says Naveen Patnaik

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More hostels will be set up for tribal girls, says Naveen Patnaik


Ch. Santakar



Chief Minister addresses Vikas Samavesh at Nabarangpur



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Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik addressing a public meeting at Nabarangpur on Saturday.


KORAPUT: Orissa Chief Minister and BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik took part in a large public meeting at Nabarangpur on Saturday as a show of strength of the ruling party in the KBK districts.
The meeting was named Vikas Samavesh and thousands of BJD workers from Koraput, Malkangiri, Rayagada and Nabarangpur districts took part in it.
The venue of the meet was strategically chosen to be the Biju Patnaik stadium at Nabarangpur. For the BJD activists it was their display of vigour in the Congress bastion of south Orissa.
The Nabarangpur Lok Sabha seat had been won by Congress candidate Pradeep Majhi in the last elections. Mr Majhi has now been put in the post of Youth Congress president of the State to rebuild the image of the party to be close to tribals and dalits. Through Saturday’s rally the BJD think-tank tried to counter this effort of the Congress.
It may be recalled that the BJD had launched its poll campaign from Jeypore, one of the political centres of KBK region. Mr. Patnaik was joined by seven ministers from his Cabinet along with key stalwart of the party Pyarimohan Mahapatra, a Rajya Sabha member, and Jayaram Pangi, MP of Koraput.
Several MLAs and other prominent leaders of the party also attended the rally. At least 20 leaders from other parties joined BJD during the rally.

Economic growth


In this speech, Mr Patnaik reiterated that Orissa’s economic growth was higher than national growth rate. His government had come up with one thousand hostels for supporting the education of around one lakh tribal girls . This would be increased to five thousand hostels to accommodate five lakh tribal girls in the State in next five years.
He said that at least 5.6 lakh hectares of agricultural land would be irrigated in coming days to increase the agricultural output.
More than 25 per cent people in the State were tribals and the percentage was more in Koraput region, who were the targeted lot for development of his government.

Women empowerment


According to him one lakh forest dwellers have already been provided pattas for the land on which they lived. He claimed that women empowerment through the SHG movement was the flagship initiative of his government.
He criticised the Congress-led union government for alleged apathy towards the State. Indian railways gets revenue of about Rs 5000 crores from Orissa.
But in return Orissa was often neglected in the Railway budget. Due to lack of concern of the Central government, projects like the proposed Vijayawada -Ranchi national highway through Koraput region were delayed, he alleged.






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