Odisha to build India’s first resettlement colony for climate change victims
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Odisha to build India’s first resettlement colony for climate change victims

Hindustan Times  

The Odisha government is planning to build India’s first resettlement colony for people affected by climate change, officials from the chief minister’s office said on Sunday. “This would be the first colony for people displaced due to climate change in India,” he said. ‘Sata-bhaya’ is a group of seven villages that existed along the Kendrapara coast several decades ago, but went under the sea one by one due to coastal erosion. Before the last village went under seawater, the state government had in 2008 started the process of relocating the people of the Satabhaya gram panchayat and shifted 571 families to the resettlement colony at Bagapatia, around 12 kilometres away, by 2018.

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