বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (দ্বাদশ খণ্ড)/৯৬
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ORRISSA FIRM ON CAMP SITES ISSUE
From Our Staff Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR, JULY 22.-As the Orissa Government virtually rejects the Prime Minister’s request to reconsider the State’s decision not to give temporary accommodation to Bangladesh evacuees in Mayurbhanj district, Centre is likely to yield to the State’s stand for accommodation of evacuees elsewhere in Orissa.
Leaders of all the political parties in the Orissa Assembly, including Mr. Binasyak Acharya Ruling Congress Opposition Leader said at a meeting. Mayurbhanj district was “not at all suitable area” for sheltering Bangladesh evacuees.
Disclosing this at a news conference here yesterday in the evening, the Chief Minister. M. Biswanath Das, said that the meeting agreed with and approved three alternative sites-two in Koraput and onc in Boudh-Phulbani district-suggested by the State Government for sheltering the evacuees.
The Chief Minister said that he had summoned the meeting to discuss a letter he had received from Mrs. Gandhi requesting the State Government to reconsider its decision not to shelter Bangladesh evacuees in Mayurbhanj district and north Balasore.
Mrs. Gandhi letter was in reply to one he had written expressing the ‘Difficulties the State Government in those areas.’
The difficulties were economic, administrative, law and security reasons, Mr. Das said.
The tenements of at Gorumahisani, selected by the Central Government, were now occupied by retrenched workers, as such no evacuees could be rehabilitated there, it is reported.
Meanwhile, a Union Rehabilitation official in a letter to the Orissa Chief Secretary has intimated Centre’s desire to open camps for 350,000 evacuces. A team would also visit Orissa soon to inspect alternative sites suggested by the State Government.
The suggested sites are Gunakhol, near Thiruvail. Simlibencu, near Motu in Koraput district, Durgaprasad in Phulbani and Chilka in Puri.