Taking up five major segments –health and family welfare, school education, electrification of schools, agriculture, animal immunization and the crop insurance scheme, Ranchi DC Rai Mahimapat Ray held a meeting with the officials of district administration on Monday.
Focusing on Aspirational district key areas of concern, the DC asked the officials of health department to take up proper measures for advertising about the schemes of the government and other related benefits.
Expressing immense dissatisfaction over the data up-gradation which was yet to be updated by the staffs, the DC instructed the District Social Welfare Officer as well as the Civil Surgeon to ensure that the data are corrected and updated within two days. Besides health, progress made in school education sector so far in the district was discussed during the meeting.
Emphasizing on ‘Functional Toilets’, the DC issued an order for random survey to check the functionality of toilets constructed on school premises. Meanwhile, Ray enquired about the prime reasons for delay in book supply in all the government schools from the District Superintendent of Education (DSE) and ordered the DSE to look into the matter with utmost priority.
On the matter of electrification of schools, the officials of electricity department appeared clueless when asked to present a data during the review meeting. The District Agriculture Officer during the meeting said that micro irrigation is expanding in the district while seed distribution work is being done by the staffs at present.
The DC asked the District Cooperative Officer to ensure that crop insurance scheme is implemented well in stipulated time. In addition, Ray instructed the officials of Department of Animal Husbandry to prepare a roster of all 37 regional animal husbandry officials besides, ensuring that immunization task is carried out well in a time bound frame.
Also, taking up the major schemes of ‘Gram Swaraj Abhiyaan’ – Ujjwala Yojana, Saubhagaya scheme, Jan-Dhan, Jeevan Jyoti Bima, Mission Indra-Dhanush, Shuraksha Bima Yojana etc, the DC asked the officials to achieve the target for different blocks keeping the prerequisites of national parameters.
Specially focusing on ‘Ujjwala scheme’, an official during the meeting said that lPG agencies have been made aware about the target while registration rate of Know Your Customer (KYC) is immensely low. No gas agency owners were present during the meeting.