Kendrapara Administration Distributed Land To 247 Families Affected By Sea Erosion
Kendrapara, August 4: Acting on the direction of Orissa High court the Kendrapara district administration has distributed 10 decimal plots each to 247 families, Charigharia,Satabhaya and Kanpur villages at Bagapatia Rehabilitation colony for their settlement.
These families were earlier deprived of land at the Bagapatia-Resettlement colony and had moved the High court, after failing to get justice from district administration and state government .
The division bench of Odisha High Court comprising Justice Biswajit Mohanty and Justice BP Satapathy had on May 20, 2022 directed the district administration to rehabilitate 247 families who were not allotted any land in the rehabilitation colony On Wednesday, Kendrapara sub collector of Kendrapada, Niranjan Behera, the tehsildar of Rajnagar, the IIC of Rajnagar police station besides other senior officials paid a visit to the area for plot demarcation to the 247 left out families of three villages .
The state government will provide them pucca houses under housing schemes, the Sub collector said.
Though the state government has rehabilitated as many as 571 families of sea erosion prone Satabhaya, several left out families were waiting for a long time to be rehabilitated at Bagapatia Rehabilitation colony.
According to district collector Amrit Ruturaj,presently, 17,049 people of 571 displaced families live in the rehabilitation colony.
The houses were provided to them under Biju Pucca Ghar Yojana (BPGY) under which a high school and nodal upper primary school was also built in Bagapatia.
The district administration also built 19 roads, a multipurpose cyclone centre, four Anganwadi centres and a market complex with 14 shops.
Notably, the 17-km stretch of the beach along Satabhaya Gram Panchayat under Rajnagar block
has been facing sea erosion .
Over 1000 of houses and large tracts of farmlands were taken to a watery grave within a span of four decades. The Satabhaya was a cluster of seven villages out of which six have already disappeared under the sea.
