It is foolishness on the part of any construction agency to stop the ongoing development work in absence of allocation, as the Government has no dearth of allotment, said Tribal, Scheduled Caste and School Education Minister Kedar Kashyap.
The Minister said this while observing that the work of the Tribal Welfare Department was not being done by the PWD and other construction and allied agencies in a better way and keeping unnecessary delay in it.
In the meeting held here to review the department schemes launched in Bastar division, secretary Tribal Welfare Department Manoj Kumar Pingua, commissioner, Tribal Welfare Manohar Singh Paraste, Bastar commissioner RP Jain, Bastar collector Ankit Anand, Kondagaon collector Vijay Kumar Dhurve, Sukma collector SK Toppo, representative officers of Kanker, Bijapur, Narayanpur, Dantewada district, District Panchayat CEOs, superintending engineer PWD GR Rawate, divisional officer of Rural Engineering Services, executive engineers of PWD and RES of all the seven districts, all assistant commissioners of Tribal Welfare department, administrator of Integrated Tribal Development Projects, Janpad CEOs and other officers concerned were present.
The minister first reviewed the implementation of departmental schemes at field level. later he collected information on the construction works of hostels, Ashram and higher secondary school buildings.
He reviewed the ongoing works done under the Integrated Tribal Development Project, Special Backward Tribal and Central Regional Scheme in accordance to the fund allocated under the provision of section 275(1) of the Constitution. Information about the issuance of Personal Forest Rights letters and Community Forest Rights letters was reviewed in the
meeting. It was approved in the meeting to hand over the monitoring work of hostels and Ashrams situated in rural areas to the panchayat chiefs.
While reviewing, it was revealed that the PWD had left the construction works in Bijapur, Dantewada, Jagdalpur and other district incomplete, for want of money.
The Minister, the secretary and the commissioner expressed unhappiness over the reply received from the construction agency and instructed superintending engineer GR Rawate to complete the monitoring work. They said that there were no dearth of fund for the sanctioned and ongoing works.