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IDCO Issues Eviction Notice To Cuttack’s Deputy Mayor

Cuttack: The newly-elected Deputy Mayor of Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) Damayanti Majhi, along with 20 other families living in Balisahi slum in Jagatpur locality, have been asked to vacate the land by May 10.

Odisha Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (IDCO) has put up an eviction notice on the wall of her house. The 20 families have been residing in the locality for the last 40 years which IDCO says is a state-owned land.

Damayanti lives in a house in the slum along with her mother. After her appointment as the Deputy Mayor of CMC a pucca house is being constructed.

IDCO official stated that the eviction decision has been taken to develop the industrial area on the land encroached by the slum dwellers.

Majhi, an M.Com student of Ravenshaw University here, had successfully contested the CMC polls and was elected as the Corporator of Ward No. 49 of the civic body.

 

OB Bureau

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