Bhubaneswar: The Orissa excessive court docket has ordered the state authorities to carry again the wage of Angul district collectors and two others until 188 villagers get compensation for the land they misplaced in an irrigation mission greater than six a long time in the past.
A two-judge bench of the Orissa excessive court docket comprising justices BR Sarangi and BP Satapathy ordered that the salaries of the district officers be stopped until the 188 villagers get compensation for his or her land that was submerged after the Kukurpeta Minor Irrigation Undertaking was constructed.
“Because the compensation quantity has not been paid to the petitioners until date, despite the fact that the land was acquired within the yr 1961 and within the meantime greater than 60 years have handed, this Courtroom directs that the wage of district collector, land acquisition officer and government officer of Angul Zilla Parishad wouldn’t be launched until fee of compensation to the petitioners is completed,” the excessive court docket stated.
The affected villagers in 5 villages of Angul district have been working from pillar to put up for the final 51 years attempting to hunt compensation for 62 acres of land which was submerged as a result of minor irrigation mission. Although the land was submerged, it continued to be recorded within the identify of the villagers and needed to pay land income all these years because the authorities didn’t situation a notification buying the parcel of land.