Phulbani (Orissa), Mar 10 About 18 months after the communal violence in Kandhamal district, several victims told Governor M C Bhandare today that they still felt insecure and found the government compensation inadequate.
Bhandare, who visited riot-affected villages in Balliguda and supervised the rehabilitation programme, was told by the victims that they had to borrow from moneylenders as the compensation given to them in instalments was inadequate.
"Now we have no work. We still do not feel secure," said Manuel Nayak, whose reconstructed house the governor visited at Kutipada village in Balliguda.
The victims also alleged that those who had lost their homes in the riot in December 2008 in Balliguda area have not yet received compensation despite several requests to the authorities concerned.
Some women told Bhandare that they were staying in forest land but have been evacuated from those places.
