Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today laid the foundation stone for four new infrastructural development projects worth 159.29 crore for Ekamra constituency.
The Chief Minister laid the foundation stone for all these projects while participating in the program organized at Lingipur Panchayat under Ekamra Constituency.
Among the projects, instream storage structures at Dhauli and Tikarpada at a cost of Rs 77.74 crore, two-lane road project on the right bank of the Daya river near Lingipur, Itipur and Tikarpada gram panchayats at a cost of Rs 22.55 crore, piped water supply project at Basuaghai for six gram panchayats and a new 33/11 KV power substation worth Rs 17 crore at Itipur.
The Chief Minister hopes that the people of the constituency will be greatly benefited once the projects are implemented.
Minister of Science and Technology and Social Security and Empowerment of Disabled Ashok Chandra Panda, MLA Anant Narayan Jena, MLA Sushant Kumar Rout, Mayor Sulochana Das and Chairperson of Odisha Construction Workers Welfare Board Srimayi Mishra were present in the program