The State Government has stressed over cleanliness around nine towns identified to be developed under the AMRUT scheme. Reviewing the AMRUT Project on Monday, Chief Secretary Rajbala Verma issued directives to officials in this regard.
The CS said that work should be done to clean the municipal bodies and database related to this should be updated in every 15 days to be sent to the Centre. Notably, the Centre is to conduct survey of nine municipal bodies that include Hazaribagh, Ranchi, Aadityapur, Giridih, Chas, Deoghar and Mango.
Stressing more on sanitation front, the CS said, “Biometric attendance of sanitation staff and door to door garbage collection should be done fast and the funds received under the 14th Finance Commission should be released and spent timely.”
She also directed all municipal bodies to construct toilets on war footing and for ensuring daily review of toilet construction and speed up disposal of application and transfer of funds. She said this while directing all municipal commissioners, chief executive officers and city managers through video conferencing. About 1.70 lakh applications have been received for toilet construction so far and fund against 1.23 lakh applicants have been transferred.
The CS added that a campaign should be run from August 25 to September 3 to construct toilets to ensure that no ward remains without the facility. She directed the city managers to coordinate with the ward councilors and release funds after reviewing the application. Also, the beneficiaries should be monitored if they are constructing toilets or not and those who have started construction, 2nd installment of the fund should be transferred in to their account.
Regarding training of boys and girls in different trades under NUlM, the CS directed the officials to start training work from selected agencies. She also asked them to ensure that the training programme should be imparted through able trainers and the centre should be installed with CCTV.
Around 49,000 candidates have been selected out of the targeted 60,000 youths in different trades in 2016-17. Training for 16,000 probationers has been started. Urban Development Department Principal Secretary Arun Kumar Singh and Urban Development Director along with other officials were present in the meeting.