Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday launched a ‘Secha Samadhan’ app to provide all types of irrigation-related services to farmers. Farmers would receive all irrigation-related information from the Water Resources Department through the mobile application.
While launching the app through video conferencing, Patnaik said, “The mobile app will help resolve the issues of farmers immediately and provide services in a transparent manner. Besides, the Water Resources Department will be accountable to farmers who are the biggest stakeholders.”
With the ‘Secha Samadhan’ mobile app, farmers can lodge their complaints by sending the photos or videos of their issues to the department. The complaint status would be sent to the farmers through SMS and quick action would be taken to address the issues.
The CM also launched portals to provide online services for community lift irrigation projects under the Biju Krushak Yojana and for making water allocations for industrial organisations and commercial houses.
Patnaik directed the department officials to expedite preparation of digital muster roll.Among others, Chief Secretary Asit Tripathy, Water Resources Secretary Anu Garg, Agriculture Principal Secretary Sourav Garg, Development Commissioner SC Mohapatra, 5T Secretary VK Pandian were present.