NHRC issues notices to Chief Secretaries of Odisha, Chhattisgarh on Hirakud displacement

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) issued notices to the Chief Secretaries of Odisha and Chhattisgarh over the action taken to alleviate the sufferings of people displaced by the construction of the Hirakud dam over the Mahanadi river about six decades ago. Human rights lawyer Radhakant Tripathy had moved the NHRC alleging that 26,561 families were displaced for the construction of the Hirakud dam project and due compensation was not paid to evictees. Narrating the plights of people displaced due to the dam project, he had sought the intervention of the Commission.