Prime Minister Narendra Modi will review the Aspirational Districts Programme on November 6 and Odisha will figure in the deliberation as two of its 10 Aspirational Districts have been listed as best performing districts in the country.
Rayagada and Nuapada as Aspirational Districts are listed in Top Twenty districts. Prime Minister Modi, who will review PRAGATI on November 6, has decided to include Aspirational Districts as one of the agenda items in the forthcoming meeting.
For this meeting, 20 districts, which have shown the best improvement in this programme and, 10 districts, which have shown low progress, have been identified. While Balrampur in Uttar Pradesh has topped the list, Nuapada is 15th and Rayagada is 16th among the Top Twenty.
Similarly in 10 Low Progress Districts, Malkangiri and Nabarangpur have been listed for poor performance.
NITI Aayog Sources say that as regards the identification of 10 districts, which have shown relatively low progress, their selection has been arrived at on the basis of slow improvement, as well as, the district not having been able to secure any rank for getting an additional allocation.
While Nuapada achieved 43.64 percentage score of improvement, and in healthcare and nutrition it is has grossed 82.40 per cent.
Percentage of elementary schools complying with Right To Education (RTE) norms, the district has achieved 88.39 per cent. In access to all weather roads under PMGSY, Nuapada has achieved 94.9 per cent.
Sundeep Kumar Nayak, Central Prabhari Officer of Nuapada, is continuously moving in the district and State Nodal Officer Saswat Mishra is also taking up the issues with the State Government.
Earlier, district Collector Poma Tudu and present district Collector Madhusmita Sahoo are known for their sincere approach for which the district is showing much better results.
And Rayagada has registered 41.22 overall scores and percentage of habitation with access to all weather roads under PMGSY has been 91.33 per cent.
Percentage of elementary schools complying with RTE is 98.22. Central Prabhari Officer, Satyabrata Sahu, Additional Secretary Land Resources, Government of India and State Nodal Officer, Anu Garg, Principal Secretary Women and Child Development and Mission Shakti are continuously visiting the backward district.
And district Collector Pramod Kumar Behera is taking a lot of personal initiative to implement the flagship programmes of both State and Union Governments.