K Vijay Kumar, advisor to the Governor of Jharkhand, along with Chief Secretary R S Sharma, Home Secretary N N Pandey and Director General Of Police (DGP) Rajiv Kumar and other senior officials took stock of the progress of Centre-sponsored multi million rupee Saranda Action Plan meant for the overall development of Saranda forest in West Singhbhum district.
Kumar and other official visited Digha village situated in the midst of Saranda and inspected the newly built integrated development center (IDC), a one stop administrative, health and other solution provider for the people of Saranda which was recently inaugurated by union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh.
later talking to newsmen Kumar said that a lot needs to be done to ensure allround development take place in the area.
"The Saranda Action Plan is an ambitious project and if it is successful it would pave the path development. We want to expand the development activities across rural belt. We need to strengthen civil administration in the villages and,for this, mass scale development of the villages is required," he noted.
Kumar and Sharma also held a development and security scenario review meeting of Kolhan division in the conference hall of Deputy Commissioner's office in Chaibasa. The meeting was attended by IGP M S Bhatia, DIG A K Singh, West Singhbum DC B K Munda, SP Pankaj Kamboj, East Singhbhum SSP A K Jha, Saraikela-Kharsawan SP Upendra Kumar.