State Transport, Social Welfare, Minority Welfare Minister, Yashpal Arya, who is also the district in-charge of Pauri, has instructed concerned officers to conduct physical verification of the development work being initiated in the district to check the quality of works while also ensuring transparency.
The Minister stated this while presiding over a monitoring meeting of the development works being done under the district plan of 2017-18 on Friday.
Arya further said the State Government had released Rs 23 crore for the district plan 2017-18 in the first phase and asked the officers to distribute the released funds to different departments.
District Magistrate Pauri Sushil Kumar informed that while Rs 84 crore has been allotted to the district for the 2017-18 district plan Rs 23 crore has been received as the first installment. While Rs 11.50 crore had been distributed to different departments, Rs 2 crore has been utilised in the development works so far, he said. While PWD has been given Rs 3.3 crore against Rs 14 crore, Social Welfare, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry Departments have received Rs 10 lakh each. Besides, Agriculture Department has been given Rs 15 lakh the figures for sports and Sanskrit departments are Rs 13 lakh and Rs 25 lakh respectively.
While the Social Welfare Department has been instructed to focus on Narinekaten and Kishore Naya, the Horticulture Department has taken up a plan to go for plantation over 80 hectare of land. During the meeting, the Power department has been instructed to construct 33kv power sub- station at Chakisain aside from electrifying 339 toks of the district.
SSP Jagat Ram Joshi and CDO VijayaJogdande were among the officers present at the meeting.