{"id":4551,"date":"2011-02-11T13:20:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T17:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=4551"},"modified":"2011-02-12T11:38:19","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T15:38:19","slug":"odisha-going-ahead-with-the-ong-river-irrigation-project-baragarh-and-balangir-to-benefit-chhatisgarh-seems-co-operative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/4551","title":{"rendered":"Odisha going ahead with the Ong river irrigation project; Baragarh and Balangir to benefit; Chhatisgarh seems co-operative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/india\/report_orissa-to-implement-rs-305-cr-ong-irrigation-project-soon_1506415\" target=\"_self\">a PTI report in dnaindia.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Exactly eight years after the ministry of environment and forest  accorded stage-I forest clearance to Ong Irrigation Project, the Orissa  government has decided to go ahead with the major project to be  implemented at an estimated cost of Rs305 crore, official sources said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Notification for land acquisition for the Ong project has already  been made. The state government has also made budgetary allocation for  the purpose,&quot; water resources secretary Suresh Chandra Mohapatra told  reporters after holding a discussion with the local MLA and state&#8217;s  Scheduled Tribe and Scheduled Caste Minister Bijay Ranjan Singh Bariha.<\/p>\n<p>Stating  that the project would irrigate about 30,000 hecatre of land in Bargarh  district, Mohapatra said that public hearing for the pupose was  conducted both in Orissa and<br \/>\nneighbouring Chhatishgarh state.<\/p>\n<p>The  drought prone area of Padmapur, Sohela, Bijepur, Gaisilat blocks of  Padampur in Baragarah district and Agalpur block of Balangir district  would get irrigation facilities after completion of the project,  Mohapatra said.<\/p>\n<p>While Rs10 crore was allocated for the project in  the current fiscal, Rs 15 crore could be sanctioned in 2011-12,  Mohapatra said adding that there was apparently no opposition to the  project in Bargarh&#8217;s Padmapur area.<\/p>\n<p>While the Stage-I Forest  clearance had been received from MOEF during February, 2003, the public  hearing for environment clearance was conducted on August 6, 2004 in  Orissa and on September 11, 2007 in Chhatisgarh.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The salient features of the project given at <span id=\"search\" style=\"visibility: visible;\"><span class=\"f\"><cite><a href=\"http:\/\/dowrorissa.gov.in\/Projects\/MajMed\/Proposed\/Details\/SFONG.pdf\" target=\"_self\">http:\/\/dowrorissa.gov.in\/<strong>Project<\/strong>s\/MajMed\/Proposed\/Details\/SF<strong>ONG<\/strong>.pdf<\/a> are as follows:<\/cite><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"515\" height=\"729\" src=\"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-content\/uploads\/image\/SFONG1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"515\" height=\"729\" src=\"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-content\/uploads\/image\/SFONG2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following is from a PTI report in dnaindia.com. Exactly eight years after the ministry of environment and forest accorded stage-I forest clearance to Ong Irrigation Project, the Orissa government has decided to go ahead with the major project to be implemented at an estimated cost of Rs305 crore, official sources said. &quot;Notification for land acquisition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,26,623],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-district-balangir","category-district-bargarh","category-dam-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}