Bhubaneswar, Oct. 21 -- Balasore: A 19-year-old divyang girl from Odisha's Balasore district has written a letter to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik requesting him to grant her a house under government scheme.

The girl, Madhumita Pani of Ishanpur village under Chalunigan panchayat of Balasore district, is suffering from speech impairment and left her studies after Class IX. Madhumita's father Upendra Pani is a daily wage labourer.

"I live with my parents, two brothers and grandmother. We are extremely poor and even struggle to arrange food for our survival," wrote Madhumita in her letter.

Narrating her plight, she wrote that her house is in a deplorable condition and water enters her house whenever it rains.

"As I am divyang, I am like ...