A ministerial team led by Deputy Chief Minister K V Singh Deo on Friday submitted a comprehensive report to Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi detailing the ground situation in the violence-hit MV-26 village of Odisha’s Malkangiri district.
The team, which also includes MSME, Fisheries & Animal Resources Development Minister Gokulananda Mallik, visited the village on Thursday following an outbreak of ethnic violence.
The conflict was triggered after the headless body of a 51-year-old tribal woman was discovered, allegedly murdered and dumped in the Poteru River over a land dispute. Irate tribals subsequently vandalized the houses of another community in the village on December 7 and 8, prompting a large number of non-tribal residents to flee the area.
The ministerial team also submitted to the CM memoranda submitted by the two communities.
Violence continued on December 7 and 8, even as a large number of people from a non-tribal community fled the area.
The situation, however, has been brought under control with the deployment of a large number of security forces, Revenue Divisional Commissioner (RDC), southern division, Sangram Keshari Mohapatra said.
He visited the affected village and monitored relief and rehabilitation work.
Though prohibitory orders remain clamped and internet services are suspended, normalcy is returning to the village. Officials confirmed that relief and rehabilitation work has begun under the direct supervision of District Collector Somesh Kumar Upadhyay.
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Both Singh Deo and Mallik visited the village and spoke to the residents and assured them that the government would ensure non-escalation of violence.
“Maintaining peace is the priority of the government. We met the people of both groups and they assured us of maintaining peace,” Mallik said after submitting their report to the chief minister.
The ministers had also held a high-level review meeting at the district headquarters town of Malkangiri to assess the root cause of the violence.
Though prohibitory orders remain clamped and internet services are suspended, normalcy is returning to the village. The administration has started relief and rehabilitation work at MV-26 village after many people returned to their houses, officials said.
The administration is providing cooked and dry food to the affected people whose houses were damaged, they said.
Rehabilitation is underway in MV-26 village under the direct supervision of district Collector Somesh Kumar Upadhyay, they said.
The electricity department has restored power connections to the houses damaged in the violence.
