A review meeting was conducted by the Sports and Youth Services and Electronics and IT Minister Tusharkanti Behera during his visit to the district recently in which the district Collector K Sudarshan Chakraverthy and other officials were present.
Stressing on the expediting of completion of mini stadiums and gymnasiums across all the blocks, he urged the district Collector to remove the bottlenecks for the projects in Baleswar Municipality, Soro, Nilgiri and Jaleswar NACs and in other blocks.
Behera asked the administration to resolve the land acquisition disputes forthwith where they were posing hurdles for construction of stadiums and gyms.
He also directed the officials to prepare fresh estimates and submit them for the projects which are stalled due to some reasons or others. The funds from other sources and departments could be converged and used for construction of better mini stadiums.
Behera stressing on building sports infrastructure also directed the Collector to begin work for the integrated sports complex to be built with State Government fund after identifying suitable land within a month.
Further, the Minister reviewed the IT sector position and performance with the STPI(Software Technology Park of India) officials.
Biswa Kishor Dey of STPI presented various activities under the technology park .
Behera asked the officials to encoursage new firms and companies for setting up their units. If need be, they would be extended with subsidy facilities, the Minister observed.