A review meeting of different ongoing developmental projects of the Ganjam Zilla Parishad was held at Chhatrapur presided over by Collector Divya Jyoti Parida.
Chief Development officer of Zilla Parishad and Executive Officer V Keerti Vasan, Additional Executive Officer Prasana Kumar Patra, Executive Engineer Manoj Kumar Behera, all BDOs, AAEs and APOs were present.
Among other things, progress relating to some of the important pro-people schemes like MGNREGA, Rural housing schemes, Gramin Park, Gramin Pokhari (water bodies), mini stadium, Mission Sakti, Anganawadi Kendras, rennovation of roads and schools and rural health schemes were discussed threadbare by Ganjam Collector Parida.
The BDOs should discuss and review periodically on all these issues at their respective block level involving all the concerned officers under their respective jurisdictions to expedite the timely completion of all the ongoing works, said Ganjam Collector Parida in his address.
The committee after discussing the status report could come to know that, the construction work of mini stadiums in 15 out of 22 blocks has already been completed, while the same work in another four blocks have been started.
The Chief Development Officer reportedly expressed his serious concern for non-starting of the works in three more blocks yet, and issued strict direction to the concerned BDOs to immediately start the mini stadium work in the remaining blocks and ensure their timely completion.
Similarly, the construction work of 3,509 Aganawadi Kendras out of 5,050 Kendras of the district has already been completed and the district Collector issued instructions for timely completion of work of the remaining Kendras. The officials and BDOs were reportedly instructed to ensure certain amenities like availability of drinking water, electricity,toilet, and compound walls are made available in all these Kendras, sources said.