Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan while fixing one year’s priorities of the state government has directed the departments to ensure implementation in the same direction.
He said that the state government has undertaken several innovations in the past, which have been adopted by other states.
While extending New Year’s greetings to all, Chouhan said that Team Madhya Pradesh will work on the road map with new energy, enthusiasm and zest in the future too.
Chouhan in the first meeting of the New Year said that he is proud of Team Madhya Pradesh. He informed about the department wise roadmap and priorities of the government. He mentioned that every Minister will provide the information about the progress to the Chief Minister’s Secretariat by every 5th of the month.
Minister for Public Relations and Water Resources Narottam Mishra, Home Minister Bhupendra Singh, Revenue Minister Umashankar Gupta, Urban Development Minister Maya Singh, Industry Minister Rajendra Shukla, Minister of State for Technical Education Deepak Joshi, Minister of State for Culture Surendra Patwa, Chief Secretary BP Singh and other Senior Officers were present on the occasion.
Rural Development Department- While fixing the priorities of Rural Development Department, Chouhan said that the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana is an ambitious programme.
Target must be achieved within the stipulated time under the programme. A total of 13.48 lakh houses have to be constructed in the state till the end of next year under the scheme. He congratulated for achieving first position in the country in its implementation.
Besides, Chouhan gave directives to work at war footing to make all the districts open defecation free till October 2, 2018, to connect al the villages by concrete roads by the end of 2018, to make youths as Swachchata Sevi by dividing 51,714 villages in groups, to link women self-help groups with sanitation work, construction of water bodies through MNREGA and to conduct employment oriented works in the drought affected areas.
In Revenue department, Chouhan instructed for continuation of campaign to dispose the revenue cases, to complete the recruitment process within time limit for filling the vacant posts of patwaris and naib tehsildars, for conducting a campaign to distribute the land rights letters to all the houseless families and for distributing copies of khasra and maps without any charges to the farmers.
While reviewing Urban Development department, Chouhan gave directives for completing the construction work of 5 lakh houses for urban poor within time frame, for proper implementation of urban transportation arrangements, for starting sewerage system works immediately in cities located on the banks of Narmada river, for completion of urban potable water schemes within time limit, to accelerate the pace of self-employment schemes and to ensure effective implementation of Deendayal Rasoi Yojana.
Similarly, Chouhan discussed and fixed time-bound targets in other departments as well.