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Rehabilitation sought for displaced families

KORAPUT: Discrimination was made in providing rehabilitation packages to the displaced families of Koraput district while establishing the NALCO mines and refinery plant 28 years ago at Damanjodi and steps were needed to be taken to correct the mistake, members of Rehabilitation Periphery Development Advisory Committee(RPDAC) felt .

The committee, in the presence of C.R.Pradhan, CMD, Nalco, Satyabrata Sahu, RDC, Southern Region, Giridhar Gamang, MP, Ashok Pangi, President, Koraput Zilla Parishad , Taraprasad Bahinipati, MLA, Koraput , Basudev Majhi, MLA, Kotpad, and Balakrishna Sahu, District Collector, discussed the various problems that the displaced persons in the district had faced all these years and came out with proposals with remedial measures. The measures would be shared with the Ministry of Steels& Mines in the Central Government to provide compensation package to the displaced persons, affected in Koraput district by the company as was offered to the families of Angul, in the other corner of the State.

While acknowledging the fact that the families of the Land Displaced Persons (LDP) who had died while in service were not yet rehabilitated with a job in the company, the committee has taken a stand to facilitate the process under Nalco Employees Family Assistance &Rehabilitation (NEFAR) scheme, so as to maximize the benefits for the affected people.

Speaking to the media, Mr. Balakrishna Sahu said while measures would be taken to ensure that locals got priority in the works done in the company, a high-level committee comprising environmental experts and agriculturists would visit the district to check the level of pollution in the periphery of the company.

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