Implementation of various Government schemes in Jharsuguda district showed a gloomy picture at a review meeting held here on Saturday.
The meeting presided over by Zilla Parishad President Renuka Kansarali was attended by Bargarh MP Prabhas Singh, Jharsuguda MlA Naba Kishore Das, Zilla Parishad CEO and district Collector Bibhuti Bhusan Patnaik, Brajrajnagar MlA’s representative, BDOs and EO’s of three municipalities.
It was revealed that out of a total 74,176 job cardholders, only 8,213 families got jobs in the first three months of the current fiscal under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).
DRDA PD Satyanarayan Dash presented an agenda for discussion wherein six schemes were discussed. While success rate of Odisha livelihood Mission stood at 19.9 per cent, it was 73.08 per cent in Gopabandhu Grameen Yojana, 16.08 per cent in Indira Awas Yojana, 18.46 in Biju Pucca Ghar Yojana, 33.79 per cent in CFC and 25.29 per cent in SSC.
Directions were issued to gear up developmental schemes at panchayat level and to focus on construction malls, marketplaces and kalyan mandaps so that gram panchayat’s revenue can be scaled up.
Other issues like uninterrupted supply of electricity, compensation to victims of elephant attacks, cooperative loans for farmers, construction of Anganwadi Centres and construction of roads under the Prime Minister Grameen Sadak Yojana were also discussed.