ROB project: Prohibitory orders clamped, 200 protestors detained
ROURKELA: About 200 tribal protestors were detained and prohibitory orders clamped in and around Kukuda Gate level-crossing site after members of the Anchalik Suraksha Committee (ASC) on Monday tried to stop the Road Over Bridge (ROB) project. Four platoons of police force have also been deployed in the area.
Sources said the Kukuda Gate ROB project was stalled for a couple of years due to protests by land oustees of South Eastern Railway (SER) owing allegiance to the ASC. However, work finally started on March 17 amid police protection, and a small group of protestors since that day was holding parallel sit-in agitation nearby.
