Indus Valley Times

By Mahendra Kumar Darjee

NUAPADA,JUNE 2: Mr Asit Tripathy, Principal Advisor to chief minister Naveen Patnaik and chairman of Western Odisha Development Council, on Wednesday visited Nuapada district and laid the foundation stone for construction of 500 seated WODC Town Hall –cum-Auditorium of Nuapada  with estimated cost of Rs 7.78 crore.

People of both the NACs ,Khariar Road and Nuapada alongwith National College, Nuapada will get benefit out of this most felt need project, which was a long standing demand of Nuapada MLA Rajendra Dholakia and also proposed by the district administration.

Sri Asit Tripathy interacted with the students of National College, Nuapada. Encouraged them to pursue a career in entrepreneurship. Some of the problems faced by them were highlighted .

The WODC chairman assured that their drinking water problem and ladies washroom problems will be solved by WODC.

Sri Tripathy during his visit made a detailed review of the status of agri and agri-enterprise and talked to a dozen of MKUY beneficiaries in a meeting conducted at Sadbhawana Sabhagruha, Nuapada. Poultry farming is very remunerative and doing very well.

District has taken initiative for crop diversification of cotton, maize and onion around 12,000/6,000 and 5,000 hectares respectively. WODC will examine if interventions like storage for onion will help farmers reap remunerative prices later. Chairman, WODC made a surprise visit to district headquarters Hospital, Nuapada and interacted with the attendants of the patients, who expressed their satisfaction on the health services. Separate 20-bedded ICU and oxygen pipeline connections to another 50 beds have been done out of WODC Special Covid -19 Assistance. Chairman, WODC during his Nuapada District visit today made into Khariar Road Railway Station along with MLA,Nuapada and took note of the  health services in Life Line Express organized by Impact India Foundation with the support of MLA,Nuapada.