32 years on, MCIP project yet to be completed Post News Network
Kendrapara: Even as 32 years have passed since work started on the Mahanadi-Chitrotpala Island Irrigation Project (MCIP), the project is halfway through.
Work on the project had started in 1988-89 under the state plan and Rs 45.81 crore was spent till 1995-96. The MCIP project was launched with an aim to providing irrigation facilities to over 19,542 hectares of farmland in Kendrapara and Jagatsinghpur districts.
The project had stirred hope among farmers of getting irrigation facilities in Garadpur, Marshaghai, Mahakalapara blocks of Kendrapara district and in Tirtol block of Jagatsinghpur.
The plan outlay was only Rs 39.94 crore in 1989 which rose to Rs 395.46 crore in 2012. The project work has stopped after the term of the lending firm Asian Development Bank expired in 2019. Farmers and residents claimed lack of political will has delayed the project.