Orissa Government approves flood control projects worth of Rs 2,850 crore
Friday, March 19, 2010

Report by Dipti Ranjan Kanungo;
Bhubaneswar: The meeting of 36th state flood Control Board held in the Orissa secretariat on Friday under the Chairmanship of the Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. The board has approved several flood control projects worth Rs 2,850 crore.
The Board gave his nod for two major projects to be implemented over rivers Subernarekha and Baitarani besides 121 proposals for controlling flood in different river systems.

Subernarekha river, which emerges from Chhotnagpur area of Jharkhand, crossed 245 miles though Orissa's Mayurbhanj and Balasore districts, before merging with the Bay of Bengal. It does not have any reservoir to check flood water during monsoon.

During monsoon, flood water of Subarnarekha creates havoc in northern districts of Balasore, Mayurbhanj, Bhadrak and Keonjhar ( Salandi Renovation Project ) Rs 933.16 crore, Rs 62.67 Crore for Brahmani System ( Brahmani-Kelua – Birupa Island ) , Rs 1855 Crore for 121 different projects has been sanctioned.

The proposal has been submitted to the centre government to declaire National Project to the Rengali Project.

Finance Minister Prafulla Chandra Ghadei, Legislature Pratap Keshari Deb, Prasanta Kumar Muduli, Chief Secretary Tarun Kanti Mishra, Development Commissioner Satya Prakash Nanda, Member of Board of Revenue Smt Rajalaxmi, Agriculture Production Commissioner R.M.Senapaty were present.