Collector Thakur Ram Singh on Wednesday directed the officials to identify ten villages each in the district’s development block areas so that ‘model villages’ can be shortlisted out of them.
Holding a meeting of officials here, the Collector said the officials should ensure during the identification process that the villagers meet all the criteria laid down for the selection.Singh also directed the district-level departmental heads to prepare a plan to provide training to the youths identified under the State Government’s Skill Development Programme.
He directed the officials to register the names of such youths and take steps to participate in the training programme within a week.The Collector directed the district heads of all the departments to fix a target for the programme.He asked the Health Department to connect the unskilled staff working in various nursing home in the skill development programme.Similarly, he emphasised the need for providing training to the drivers after registering them under the programme.
Singh also directed officers of different departments including the Agriculture, Horticulture, Veterinary, Public Works, Forest, Fisheries , Animal Husbandry, Woman and Child Development, and labour to make necessary arrangement for the skill development programme. Reviewing the tree plantation programme undertaken in the district, the Collector directed the officials to complete the target as soon as possible.He also directed the officials of the Mining Department to carry out plantation near all the stone crusher units.
The Collector also directed the Horticulture Department officials to plant 5 lakh saplings.He directed the officials of Urban and Rural Development Department to carry out plantation in private colonies.Forest department officials informed in the meeting that as many as 40,000 saplings are available in the nurseries of Jhanj and Mana.