Airstrip to be set up in Kalinga Nagar.

In order to facilitate the movement of various company owners and executives to the site of the Kalinga Nagar industrial hub, the State Government has decided to set up an airstrip in that area.The airstrip will be set up near Mangalpur on a public-private-partnership (PPP) mode. A decision to this effect was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by Finance Minister Prafulla Chandra Ghadai. Steel and Mines Minister Pradip Amat and other senior officials also attended the meeting.Talking to mediapersons after the meeting, Ghadai said the Secretary, Steel and Mines has been asked to identify the required land for this purpose. "An airstrip is required to improve connectivity to that area," he said.

In order to improve road communication to the industrial area, Ghadai said an overbridge would be constructed at Manpur railway station at an estimated cost of Rs 40 crore. The required fund would be shared by both the State and Centre equally.
He further said that four laning work of Jajpur-Duburi road has started and the Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation has been asked to shift its water pipeline farther from the road to facilitate the four laning work.The works of another road Duburi-Keonjhar Road via Harichandrapur has also started. Rs 320 crore would be invested in the road and it would reduce the distance between Duburi and Keonjhar by about 70 kms.

Unveiling the plans for rehabilitation of displaced families, Ghadai said four rehabilitation colonies have been completed and 5 additional colonies are planned to be constructed. The construction work of two of these proposed rehabilitation colonies at Mantira and Bargadia will start next week."Government would also acquire 5,000 acres of land for setting up more rehabilitation colonies having the facility modern school, colleges, of hospital, stadiums, bus terminal and market complex, among others," he said, adding that the Dangadi Community Health Centre (CHC) will be upgraded to a 60 bed hospital in PPP mode.All the industrial houses have been asked to take up development of plantations in a major way and contribute to the periphery development of these areas.