BERHAMPUR: The boundary dispute involving Odisha along with Andhra Pradesh surfaced again following the Arabian country supposedly started building of a pond in Champapur beneath Gajapati district Rayagada block.
Although the Gajapati district government stopped the job and also posted a flag asserting the region goes to Odisha, it had been alleged that Andhra Pradesh was hoping to re work in exactly the identical location three days ago, prompting Rayagada tehsildar Leelabati Acharya to go to the area and start an evaluation after she was alarmed by locals regarding the new improvement.
“We’ve seen the place and posted the crimson flag demarcating the boundary region between Odisha and Andhra Pradesh,” Acharya said.
She stated they also have cautioned the sarpanch of their Arabian panchayat at Andhra Pradesh of legal actions should they attempt to restart building work from Odisha.
“The job now was stopped from the village following the tehsildar visited the website,” Gajapati district collector Anupam Saha stated.
In the very first week of Junethe boundary villagers of Andhra Pradesh had opposed structure of a pond in New Baraghara at exactly the identical Gangabad panchayat of Rayagada block, also asserting that the specific patch of land is owned by the northeast country.
The dispute, but was solved while the project manager, district rural development agency, Gajapati, seen the area and convinced that the natives from Andhra Pradesh the property goes back to Odisha.
“Today, we’ve opted to demarcate the boundary regions in our own and article columns to the borderline to prevent additional dispute involving villages of these 2 states.
The boundary demarcation work is going to be started shortly,” said district collector Saha.