Former Supreme Court Judge and Odisha Mineral Bearing Areas Development Corporation (OMBADC) Oversight Authority Justice Anang Kumar Patnaik is on a 5-day visit to Mayurbhanj to take stock of the progress of works of various developmental initiatives in the district.
On Friday, the second day of his visit, Justice Patnaik reviewed the progress in the various public welfare projects at the Udala, Badasahi, and Gopabandhu Nagar blocks of the district, which are developed with financial support from OMBADC.
Justice Patnaik first visited Udala NAC to inspect the functioning of the ’24×7 Drink from Tap’ project in the locality as well as visited the Multi-purpose Indoor Stadium there.
Following his tour, Justice Patnaik visited Badasahi and Gopabandhu Nagar Blocks where he inspected the water treatment plant & intake well site of Mega Pipe Water Supply projects and took stock of the various services by interacting with the officials and beneficiaries.
Meanwhile, all mega piped water projects are being made operational in the Mayurbhanj district to provide potable water to every household across the 26 blocks. Justice Patnaik inspected the progress of work on one of the under-construction projects at Nuagaon GP in Badasahi block.
He also visited the ongoing work site of Udala Multi-purpose Indoor Stadium and was pleased with the plan and progress where such a facility is provided across the district.
Later, he visited Krushi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) at Samakhunta block and expressed his happiness over the Agri-Incubation & Entrepreneurship Development Programme, Capacity building and first-order Agri processing units. Later he interacted with the officials of the Agriculture department there and further inquired about the vision and way forward of the upcoming projects.
On the last leg of his 1st day visit Justice Patnaik went to the Maharaj Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo University at Takatpur and reviewed the construction of the PG council building, construction of dispensary building, construction of new academic building & extension of the library building there and inspected the educational Infrastructure development in the varsity.
The CEO of OMBADC G Rajesh, Officials on Special Duty (OSDs) Shaikh Naimuddin and Dwipayan Patnaik, CEO of OMBADC (Administration) G.Rajesh, General Manager (Operation) Jayant Kumar Dash, LE, Jagannath Mishra, SDE, Aditya Pradhan and Team Leader (OMBADC, Mayurbhanj) Niharkant Sahoo accompanied Justice AK Patnaik during the visit.
Collector & District Magistrate Mayurbhanj Hemakanta Say, IAS, CDO cum EO Zilla Parishad, Mayurbhanj, Dharmananda Behera and other senior officials of the district were present on the occasion.
Reportedly, Justice Patnaik’s Mayurbhanj tour will continue till 30th December. On 28th December Justice Patnaik will take a meeting with all officials involved in the OMBADC Projects in the district, later on the day he is scheduled to proceed to Rairangpur, and on 29th December he will visit Jashipur & Karanjia to take stock of the working progress.
