Ranchi

Hazaribagh planning committee passes Rs 33-crore schemes

RR Srivastava

The district planning committee of Hazaribagh passed schemes of Rs 33 crore for fiscal year 2013-14 in a meeting held in the collectorate hall under the chairmanship of BK Jaiswal, Chairman District Board. These developmental schemes will be implemented in the district especially in rural areas by Backward Region Grant Fund.

DC Sunil Kumar placed the proposals prepared under BRGF scheme before the members for discussion and the committee gave its green signal for the construction of 22 panchayat buildings, 410 roads, 36 small bridges, 20 guard walls and 15 sheds. The proposal of construction of boundary wall for two Kasturba schools was also passed unanimously.

In the meeting MlA Umashankar Yadav Akela and Amit Kumar raised the problems of Kasturba schools and demanded to solve them. MlA Yogendra Sao talked about lack of health facilities in the rural areas. Municipal Council Chairman Anjali Kumari put several problems of town area and demanded quick action to solve them. District Board Member Arjun Sao objected on the progress report submitted by Civil Surgeon and asked about the number of deaths by snake bite in Hazaribagh.

Other members also raised problems of their areas and put questions before the authorities. DC Sunil Kumar directed the officers to solve the problems raised by the members in the meeting. DDC Ravindra Prasad Singh assured the members that the pending schemes will be completed and they will respond to the questions raised by them quickly.

In this meeting Vice Chairman of district board Sanjeev Bediya, members Arjun Sao, Umesh Kumar Mehta, Basant Narayan Mehta, Najneen, Aarti Devi, Manju Nandani, Parmeshwar Mahto, Sharda Rishi, Pankaj Gupta, Deep Ranjan and representatives of Hazaribagh MP, Koderma MP, Sadar MlA and Bagodar MlA took part along with almost all the officers of district administration.