Naveen Patnaik’s visit to Rourkela is special and will be remembered

Rajesh Mohapatara,Odishabarta

ROURKELA:Odisha Chief Minister,Naveen Patnaik had visited Rourkela as planned and will be remembered for coming years for the grand inaugural ceremony of International standard Hockey stadium named in the name of freedom fighter, late Birsa Munda.

This was the occasion where foundation stone was laid and work will be progressed soon which will be completed by June, 2022 before the schedule of the Hockey World Cup to be held in Odisha and one of the location would be this stadium, as committed by Naveen Patnaik, the hon’ble CM of Odisha. As everybody knows Sundergarh district is the mother of hockey game where many international star players have come out in both men and women. In the inaugural speech, Hon’ble CM as per his style said ‘Juhar to all’ and then he started his speech by memorizing the late freedom fighter, Birsa Munda, pride of Odihsa in whose name this gigantic stadium is going to b built on 15 acres of land where viewers capacity will be 20,000 and all required infrastructure will be in place for players and officials which will be constructed inside the premised of BPUT, Rourkela. Blue high quality Asstro torp grass will be spread inside the ground to give due speed to this game. In his address, he thanked the district for giving such legendary hockey players to our country.

Hockey is everywhere in this lovely land of Sundergarh,hence, making a stadium of high standard will motivate many more youths to pursue hockey as their career. He also said Odisha is now the sponsor of Indian Hockey team and India has been doing well in hockey in international competition.

When we come to Rourkela, it reminds us of the legend Late.Biju Patnaik who was the key for making Rourkela Steel Plant. People come here with a dream and they get it here. Rourkela is now a Smart City and Sundergarh’s contribution to make in Odisha is enormous.  He also said, different Govt. schemes for tribals’ are made out for the overall development.

This grand program carries many importance where all total Rs.4910 crores of Project been inaugurated from a single place.

This will help this district to become more reliant and stronger. The funds have been allocated for water provisioning, irrigation, health service, construction of roads, education, sanitation, livelihood, smart city, electrification, hockey and urban development.

This ceremonial programe was viewed by thousands of people through big LED screen in different places of Sundergarh and in all those respective locations many top leaders, i.e ministers and MLA of Odisha remained present and spearheaded this mega event.

This certainly has boosted the morale of the BJD workers and this has changed the scenario of politics in this area where in last election the maximum control was under BJP with only two MLAs from BJD (Sarada Nayak and Subrat Tarai).

All top BJD leaders of the district were present and made this occasion very special. In many places workers and Leader of BJP have raised slogan against the CM but subsequently arrested by police and taken away from the spot. Tribal dance was also organized in respect of CM where many BJD leaders were seen dancing including Sarada Nayak.

Maximum police deployment was done with more than 34 platoon of police personnel who had managed the show beautifully under the leadership of kabita Jalan, DIG, western range.

Rourkelaites are all happy with this type of projects and is much ambitious to have it without any obstacle as it happened with Brahmani bridge and many other projects where developmental work is still under halt after due initiation was made earlier.