Industry Odisha Bureau, April 14: On the auspicious occasion of Maha Bishuba Sankranti and the Odia New Year, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday launched 78 infrastructure projects worth Rs 375 crore in Sambalpur district.
The projects have been launched in Kuchinda, Bamra and Jamankira areas of Sambalpur district. Attending separate programmes organized in Kuchinda and Bamra, Pradhan inaugurated 39 projects worth Rs 108.33 crore and laid the foundation stone of 39 projects worth Rs 267.3 crore.
Laying the foundation stone of a new sub-district hospital building in Kuchinda, the Sambalpur MP said that this modern 100-bed hospital and specialized trauma care center to be built at a cost of about Rs 53 crore will strengthen the emergency healthcare services in the local area.
In addition, two multi-purpose welfare pavilions at Kuchinda Yatra Podia and Kundaposhi at a cost of Rs 5.14 crore and the foundation stone of the new office of Kuchinda Notified Area Council at a cost of Rs 6 crore have been inaugurated.
The new community center dedicated to the public will be very helpful for various social activities of the poor and common people of the area such as brataghara and marriages, he said.
Pradhan said that the double engine government is committed to providing all-round development, sanitation and improved citizen services to Kuchinda sub-division.
The projects dedicated and laid today will strengthen the communication system of Kuchinda subdivision and strengthen the rural economy. The launch of a new sanitation vehicle to keep Bamra city clean and beautiful will make urban life more convenient, he said.
Health, education and transportation along with other social infrastructure will bring a positive change in the lifestyle of the local people. “He said that our goal is to build a beautiful and healthy Kuchinda with the cooperation of every citizen of Kuchinda,” the Union Minister said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mantra for ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’ is today fulfilling the dream of Babasaheb Ambedkar. Improving education, health and infrastructure in tribal-dominated areas like Kuchinda has become the priority of the BJP’s double engine government, he added.
“We aim to provide clean drinking water through pipes to every household and to provide water to the farmland through the ‘Parvati Giri Irrigation Project’. Efforts are underway to build an underpass for the market area along with a railway overbridge in Bamra in the coming days,” he informed.
Pradhan has once again called for a collective effort to increase the income of the farmer brothers by promoting the chili crop of Kuchinda on a commercial basis.
The Union Minister further said that the cooperation and empowerment of our mothers is essential to build a developed Odisha and a developed India.
“Therefore, our government has made the ‘Nari Shakti Bandhan Bill’ to respect women’s power and bring mothers into the mainstream of society,” Pradhan said.
Under this historic Bill, 33 percent reservation has been made for mothers in the Legislative Assembly and Lok Sabha, which will give mothers the power to involve them in key decisions of governance and administration.
He said that the ‘Lakshapati Didi’ scheme is giving mothers a new identity by making them financially independent today.
