As per the direction of RDC(SD) in the RPDAC meeting on 4th November 2011, Collector Rayagada visited the Kansariguda and Podapadi villages to finalize the site for R&R (Rehabilitation & Resettlement) colony. In Kansariguda village he visited the Jhodia sahi and Sundhi sahi and interacted with the people about the finalizing of the site for R&R colony.People expressed their reluctance on various grounds to go to Podapadi site where the R&R colony, which was decided in the R&R plan. Collector Rayagada talked with people from both the communities. People from both the communities unequivocally stated that they wanted to stay together in the RR colony, as they have been staying together for centuries and it is not a fact that the people of the one community wants to stay away from the other. Collector Rayagada made it very clear and change of site for R&R colony, if at all will be within the acquired land and that there is absolutely no scope for the R&R colony to come up in any govt or private land, which is out of the acquired land.
Collector Rayagada assured the people of the Kansiriguda village that the district administration would definitely take into account their sentiments, but cannot commit on the matter of changing the R&R colony site to another place, as it requires deliberation from various side and any change in the present plan cannot be made without the concurrence of the government in revenue dept. However he assured people of coming back to the village with a final decision in this matter in the first week of December tentatively.
