SME Times News Bureau | 16 May, 2018
The Odisha government on Tuesday said 1.07 lakh homesteadless families
have been provided with house sites in rural areas in the last four
years.
Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Maheswar Mohanty
said the state government had identified 1.10 lakh homesteadless
families during a survey in 2015.
"The balance 2,837 families will be provided with house sites by August 31 this year," he added.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday reviewed the performance of the Revenue Department here.
He
said the department has taken steps to conduct a fresh survey from May
15 to June 15 to identify homesteadless families for distribution of
sites.
The minister said Disaster Resilient Houses have been
provided to 16,568 cyclone Phailin affected families in Ganjam and
Khurda districts while 879 Multi-Purpose Cyclone/Flood Shelters have
been constructed at vulnerable places in the state.
Besides,
Advanced Disaster Warning Systems have been set up at 162 locations in
22 blocks of six coastal districts, Mohanty said.
