The officers should undertake extensive tours of their areas and take night halts there. The Chief Secretary of Uttarakhand Subhash Kumar instructed while taking a review meeting of the developmental activities at Nainital on Thursday.
He said that government has allotted Rs 750 crores for all the districts of the state under the district plan in which share of Nainital is Rs 52.65 Crores. Kumar said that the all the development projects should be completed in time and the officers should regularly keep a check on their quality.
Kumar said that the senior officers and head of departments should regularly hold talks with the employee unions so that the works are not affected by strike and other agitations. Highlighting the need of expediting the works of the projects under State plan, district plan and externally aided projects the Chief Secretary said that the officers should ensure that fund utilization certificates are issued on time so that next installment of funds could be released. Kumar said that the projects affected by recent heavy rains should be taken up on priority so that the common people are not adversely affected. He took the progress report of Tanakpur-Kakrali-Joljivi motor road from the Chief Engineer of PWD.
The District Magistrate of Nainital Akshat Gupta informed in the meeting that out of the fund of district plan an amount of Rs 14.80 Crore has been released to different departments. He said that an amount of RS 5.21 crores is released to PWD which is fully utilized similarly Rs 2.33 Crores is released to Jal Nigam out of which the department has utilized Rs 1.28 crores.
The Executive Engineer Jal Nigam informed that the department has received Rs 90 Cores under ADB for seven projects in Nainital and Haldwani districts.
He said that out of them two projects are complete while four projects are underway. In the review meeting Kumaon Commissioner A S Nayal, CDO lalit Mohan Rayal and all district level officers were present.