A district-level review meeting about various projects and schemes was conducted on Tuesday by MSME and Women and Child Development (WCD) Minister Prafulla Samal here.
Samal reviewed the implementation of various schemes under Mission Shakti, WCD, social security and empowerment for physically challenged and weaker sections, besides the MSME sector.
The Minster stressed on entrepreneurship development and training and encouragement to the prospective persons. He also directed the concerned departments to educate and encourage the educated unemployed youths for setting up industries and urged the district officials to identify the potential sectors for setting up medium, small and micro industries.
Baleswar MP RK Jena, focusing the faster rate of growth of industrialization and self employment, said that the goals for industrialization in the district and entrepreneurship development could only be fulfilled by concerted and coordinated efforts of various departments, mainly the DIC and the bankers. The banks should provide the required capital from various earmarked schemes of the Government for the promising entrepreneurs without creating any hassles, Jena stated. Samal also emphasized that the persons eligible for pension under physically challenged, widow and old age shouldn’t be deprived of the their dues and rather the dues should be disbursed on time. With regard to supply of nutritious foods to the Anganwadi centres, he asked the district Collector as well as the district social welfare officer to ensure the quality of chhatua supplied to centres through SHGs and other agencies through constant monitoring mechanism.
District planning committee Chairman and MlA Jaleswar Aswani Patra , MlA Sadar JP Dash, MlA Basta Nityananda Sahu , MlA Nilgiri Sukanta Nayak and ZP President Nibedita Mohanty attending the meeting drew the attention of Minister Samal to various problems and difficulties in implementing schemes. Samal urged the concerned officials to resolve them.
Besides district Collector Pramod Das, district social welfare officer Asteria Karketa and district welfare officer Kamalakanta Behera were among others present.