Chief Secretary Winds up Sundargarh visit
Rourkela: The three-day visit of Chief Secretary Bijay Kumar Patnaik to
Sundargarh districts concluded after his visit to the Steel City here last
night.
Soon after
his arrival at the Circuit House in the city at around 8.30 pm, leaders of
various political parties, organizations, ADM Rourkela Rabindranath Mishra,
Sub-Collector, Panposh S B Mishra, Chairman of Rourkela Municipality Rashmibala
Mishra and Vice Chairman R N Mishra, Union leaders and CEO of Rourkela Steel
Plant (RSP) with other senior officials, Bar Association members and members of
Rourkela Chambers of Commerce and Industry met him. A host of issues relating
to major developmental issues like construction of second bridge on Brahmani
and Koel rivers, setting up an ESI Medical College and Hospital, regular air
services, and ongoing modernization process of RSP came up for discussion.
The Chief
Secretary assured Rourkela MLA Sarada Prasad Nayak to look into his demand for
providing irrigation facilities in Panposh sub division. Nayak also apprised
him of large-scale encroachment of government land, mega housing project for
steel city, widening of road inside the Steel City etc.
Among
others, Water Resources Secretary and CMD of Omfed Suresh Mohapatra, Sundargarh
Collector Roopa Roshan Sahoo, CDMO, Sundargarh Ratnakar Choudhury, CMO of
Rourkela Government Hospital R K Joshi, Sundargarh SP Sanjib Arora, Rourkela SP
Himanshu Lal and Sub-Collector Sundargarh Bimalendu Ray were present.
Prior to his
departure from the city, Raghunathpali MLA Subrat Tarai met Patnaik in the
morning hours and discussed about various development issues of in and around
Rourkela along with land allocation for proposed ESI Medical College and
Hospital at Rourkela.
The Chief Secretary
arrived in the city after his visit to Jharsuguda yesterday. It is noted that
during his tenure as the Collector of Sundargarh district between 1986-89 Patnaik
had earned immense popularity for his pro-people attitude.
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