Nandagiri
(English translation of the order by the District. Administration)
Form B
Notice under section 6(1)
See Rule 9(A)
Name - Church Building,Nandagiri. Through - Pastor Krisant Mallick
Address - S/o - kandhia mallick, Pidiaka Maha(Nandagiri)
Whereas after investigation as per law, the undersigned has come to the conclusion that you have occupied/trespassed the government land mentioned in table below.Hereby you are given this notice, that if you don't vacate the below mentioned land within 30 days of receipt of this notice, you will be thrown out of the occupation of the land completely and the materials kept on the land, the building being constructed, and any crop on it will be seized.

(Translated by Mr. Amiya Pradhan)

Nandagiri is a resettlement colony - after the communal violence of 2008, a number of christian families were not allowed to return to their native villages. Such families were resettled at new colonies. One of them is Nandagiri in G Udayagiri Tahasil. There are 54 catholic and 17 pentecostal families at this resettlemnt colony. From June 2009, they have been worshipping at a peice of land close to their settlement. Slowly they are building a church .
When any new town is planned government allots land for places of worship. When families were settled at Nandagiri no land was alloted for places of worship. The then collector (Dr Krisdhan Kumar) had verbally told that the place where worship was being conducted, would be gradually alloted for a church. That was why people slowly, as and when they got some cash built their church. Building is yet to be completed due to lack of funds.
The leader of local christian community ( Krisant Mallick) had applied to the collector for setllement of land in the name of the church. To his shock he received a notice from the Tahasildar asking him to present himself on 17 Aug and show cause as why action should not be initiated against him. Mr Krisant Masllick pleaded that they have no other place for church and that they have been worshipping on that plot of land since June 2008. The Tahasildar gave an order as follows: "You are directed to leave the place and take away all things and demolish the chruch under construction within 30 days, or else all things and properties shall be seized and the chruch under construction shall be demolished."

Christian community will resist it because it was due to their faith /worship only he had to leave his native village. Mr Amiya Pradhan a social activist says that people's fundamental rights is being infringed by the order of the tahasildar.