RDC (Northern Division) Gudey Srinivas has directed the district administrations in northern Odisha to expedite the pace of implementation of projects.
After he took over recently, Srinivas has toured all the 10 districts in his jurisdiction to impress upon the Collectors to speed up the pace of project works and adhere to timeline so that cost escalations could be avoided.
Srinivas recently visited Angul, Deogarh and Dhenkanal. Rather than attending videoconferencing, he is meeting the field-level officials to know their problems in implementing projects.Presiding over a review meeting at Dhenkanal in Saturday, Srinivas asked the Collector and other concerned officials to complete the Centrally-sponsored schemes in time so that the State Government would be able to present the utilisation certificates and avail more Central funds.
The RDC reviewed the programmes relating to MGNREGS, horticulture, health, education, rural connectivity and rural electrification and others.
While vacant posts in the health sector are posing a big problem, the education sector is also equally facing dearth of manpower, admitted a senior official in Dhenkanal.Collector Bishnu Prasad Panda apprised about the developmental projects being undertaken up in the district while other senior officials also participated in the discussion.
The RDC urged the district officials to speed up encroachment removal plans so that grabbers of Government land could be taken to task.