Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh on Tuesday directed State Women and Child Development Department officials to open 50,000 Anganwadi centres from 7 to 10 am till June 30 in view of intense heat conditions.
He reviewed the special campaigns and schemes carried out to enhance the quality of the Anganwadi centres.
Singh further inquired about the Mukhyamantri Amrit Yojana preparations while focussing on sweet flavoured milk distribution among nine lakh children aged between three to six years old. A provision of Rs25 crore has been made for this scheme in the ongoing financial year.
As many as 49,975 Anganwadi centres are running in the State, stated officials in a presentation shown to the Chief Minister.
Infants aged from six months to three years along with pregnant women and lactating mothers are provided nutritious diet in these centres.
Every day around 25 lakh beneficiaries are taking the advantage of these services, said officials.
Meanwhile, the Aadhaar numbers of the beneficiaries in the 50,000Anganwadis and Mini Anganwadis of the State will be registered.
A circular regarding the programme has been issued by the government to all the District Programme Officers and District Women and Child Development Officers on April 13, informed officials.
The circular mentions of ensuring the registration of every beneficiary. Those devoid of Aadhaar number should be immediately supported with the required documentation for getting the number.The list of beneficiaries cover zero to six year old children, pregnant women, lactating mothers and adolescent girls. It has been directed to complete the process within a week, said officials. Meanwhile, the Chief Minister while expressing concern over delay in disbursement of salary to Shikshakarmis (teachers of panchayat category), said that in anticipation of receiving money from Central Government for disbursement of salary to Shikshakarmis, the payment of salary should be made through the State government’s fund and immediately adjusted after receiving the Centre’s share.
Besides, Singh also directed officials concerned to ensure timely payment of salary to Shikshakarmis.
Officials of the Department apprised the Chief Minister about efforts initiated to ensure timely payment of Shikshakarmis through edu-portal and provision for availability of corpus amount as per the requirement has also been made from Finance Department.
Following the information provided by officials regarding preparation for timely salary, Singh has directed officials to undertake regular monitoring of the arrangement.
On the occasion, the Chief Minister also reviewed Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Quality Education Campaign launched in 2015 at 47000 schools (for students between class 1st and class 8th) of the State. Moreover, he directed officials to start the campaign from August this year.
Besides, Singh also gave specific directives to officials of the department regarding preparation of second phase of the campaign.
As a result of the campaign, presence of teachers in almost maximum schools across the State increased and school development plan was chalked out with the help of community, added Singh.
According to the provision of Right to Education (RTE) act, students between class 1st and 5th should not be subjected to examination but in next academic session, the State government could subject students heading to class 6th into evaluation (test), said Singh, adding that evaluation is going to be on the basis of topics and subjects of class 5th.