Around Rs 32 crore for different departments were approved in district plan meeting of Dehradun district on Friday. The district departments’ head were directed to give emphasis on such schemes, which can be executed within a year, under district plan.
Uttarakhand Food and Civil Supply Minister Pritam Singh has instructed to the district officers while reviewing the progress of district plan at collectorate in Dehradun on Friday. He has directed them to make sure delivery of a copy of proposed plan to the public representative so that they can do their home work. In this meeting, status of ongoing various schemes’ expenditure of different departments including Public Works Department, Irrigation department, Electricity department, Peyjal Nigam, Jal Sansthan officers were presented by the officers’ concerned.
Singh said that district officers were directed to make sure that schemes which have already begun but could not complete due to some reason, should not include in district plan. You should not incorporate small projects because the project can be executed under National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) at grams Sabha level. While including road and bridge proposal in district plan you must prepare detailed project report (DPR) of its cost so that department concerned will present their demand as per their proposal.
He also instructed them to keep public representative updated about the status of project so that they would keep the update while preparing new proposals. He also asked Dehradun DM to call district flood control officer in district plan meeting so that we would get exact status of damage due to flood. He also said that you incorporate remaining proposals of public representatives in next meeting.
DM BVRC Purushottam informed that an expenditure of around Rs 32 crore including Rs 11.3678 crore of PWD, around Rs 4.6 crore of Electricity department, Rs 9.2 crore of peyJal nigam, Rs 6 crore of Jal Sansthan have been approved.
Other dignitaries including Tehri MP Mala Rajyalakshmi Shah, MP Harish Rawat’s representative, MlAs Rajkumar, Umesh Sharma Kau, Ganesh Joshi, Sahdev Pundir, Prem Chandra Aggarwal, Harbans Kapoor, Dinesh Aggarwal’s representative, chief development officer Jyoti Neeraj Khairwal and other public representatives and district officers were present there.