BJD MP donates salary for potable water in his constituency

New Delhi, May 18 (UNI) Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MP Brahmananda Panda has donated his salary to facilitate provision of potable water to the people of his constituency in Orissa.

Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee has approved the request of Mr Panda to divert his monthly salary of Rs 12,000 till the end of his term to the District Magistrate of Jagatsinghpur in coastal Orissa.

As desired by Mr Panda, his salary might be sent to the District Magistrate of Jagatsinghpur for making provision of potable water and good health care for the poor and needy, said the letter from the Lok Sabha Secretariat.

Jagatsinghpur is prone to cyclone and floods due to its proximity to the sea. Most of the people are poor and the economy had been crippled since the super-cyclone hit the district in 1999, he said in a letter to the Speaker.

Mr Panda, a first timer in Lok Sabha, is an advocate at Orissa High Court in Cuttack.

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