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Tata Steel told to provide livelihood to displaced persons

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Revenue Divisional Commissioner reviewing the progress of rehabilitation and resettlement of the oustees of the Tata project at in Berhampur on Thursday.

BERHAMPUR: Revenue Divisional Commissioner (RDC), southern division, Satyabrata Sahu ordered the Tata Steel officials to take responsibility of all youths from families displaced by its now shelved steel project near Gopalpur Port whether the families had approached the company officials for it or not.

He passed the order at a meeting held in his office in the city to discuss about the state of the families either displaced or affected by the shelved project of the company. It was fourth meeting on the issue taken up by the RDC since March.

Speaking to The Hindu, Mr Sahu said due to these regular meetings the members of the displaced families have started to open up and express their agonies after displacement. Most displaced families felt they were forgotten by the company officials along with the shelved project.

During discussions in the meeting chaired by the RDC, which was also attended by the representatives of displaced families, in charge Collector Madan Mohan Dey and Berhampur Superintendet of Police Devidutta Singh said that the total number of unemployed youths in these families, either displaced of affected by the land acquirement of the company, also came up for discussion. There were around 604 eligible youths from these families who could have been provided help for employment by the company.

The company however has trained only 66 of them. Out of these trained youths around 47 were appointed. The RDC ordered the Tata Steel officials to see to it that the rest of these trained youths were appointed in their Kalinga Nagar project.

The Tatas were provided 3,088 acres of land near Gopalpur in Ganjam district during the last decade. The land acquired by the company included 2,295.95 acres of private land and 792.65 acres of government land. The company has set up a technical training centre over 10.2 acres of land. The rest of the land it had acquired for setting up of the steel plant is lying vacant since 1997.

The displaced families continue to complain that the company did not fulfil promises it had made to them like providing employment opportunities.

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