Dehradun

Rs50 cr fund for new projects, depts told to speed up work

PNS

In a bid to expedite the execution of Chief Minister Harish Rawat’s announcements made at public meetings or in his public addresses , Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister Omprakash convened a review meeting at the Secretariat on Thursday.

He categorically asked the departments, which were having upto 10 announcements, to complete all the formalities by February 15. The departments have been told to allocate budget for the execution of the projects. “If you are facing budget crunch then you send a proposal to the State by February 15 because the Government has created a separate fund of Rs50 crore for this,” he said.

Omprakash has categorically asked that dillydallying attitude of any departments will not be tolerated anymore. It has been noticed that few departments are not taking chief minister’s announcement seriously so beware from doing so. You excute chief minister announcements on priority basis and assured that financial hurdle would not come up because govenmrent has created separate fund of Rs 50 crore this such works. The fund would be increased so execute on priority basis.

Other officers including Principal secretary forest Dr Ranbir Singh, Secretary to CM Mohammad Shahid, Secretary incharge Dr Nidhi Pande, Additional secretary civil aviation Akshat Gupta, Additional secretary to CM Dilip Jawalkar, Additional secretary to CM Arvind Singh Hyanki and else were present.