Following is an excerpt from a report in Business Standard.

The Orissa government plans to develop an airstrip in the Kalinganagar industrial area in Jajpur district to facilitate the movement of the executives of various companies to that area. It will be developed in the public-private-partnership (PPP)mode.

The commissioner-cum- secretary,steel and mines department, Orissa government, has been asked to identify the required land for this purpose. Besides, he will also co-ordinate with other departments and agencies for handing over the required land for the airstrip, state finance minister Prafulla Chandra Ghadai said.

… He said, an overbridge will be constructed at Manpur railway station at an estimated cost of Rs 40 crore.The Union government will contribute Rs 20 crore and the state government will contribute Rs 20 crore for this project.It has already made a budgetary provision for the project during the current year’s budget.

The four laning work of Jajpur-Duburi road, considered to be the lifeline of the Kalinganagar area has started and the Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (IDCO) has been asked to shift its water pipeline farther from the road to facilitate the four laning work.

Similarly, the work on the Rs 320 crore Duburi-Keonjhar road via Harichandrapur has also started.It is expected to reduce the distance between Duburi and Keonjhar by about 70 kms.

About the rehabilitation of the to be displaced families,Ghadai said, four rehabilitation colonies have been completed and 5 additional colonies are planned to be constructed.The district administration of Jajpur has already given the land for this purpose. The construction work of two of these proposed rehabilitation colonies (at Mantira and Bargadia) will start next week.

In addition, the government is in the process of acquiring about 5000 acres of land for setting up more rehabilitation colonies having the facility of hospital, modern school, colleges, stadiums, bus terminal and market complex, among others.Besides, the Dangadi Community Health Centre (CHC) is proposed to be upgraded to a 60 bed hospital in PPP mode.

As the raw material is being loaded and unloaded in about 5 railway stations in the nearby areas, the environment is getting polluted.Keeping that in view, all the industries have been asked to take up development of plantations in a major way. Besides, the roads connecting to these railway stations also needs to be developed immediately.

Steel and mines minister Pradip Kumar Amat said, all the industries working in the area have been told to contribute to the periphery development of these areas.