The Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat expressed his dismay over slow pace of work on many projects of rural development. He was undertaking a meeting of the State level vigilance and monitoring committee at state secretariat on Tuesday.
On a stern note the CM said that the officials should ensure that the development works are reflected on ground and not merely on paper. He ordered the departments concerned to expedite works and spending of budget allotted.
The CM said that the required progress on all pending works should be made within a time period of three months. He specifically directed the officials to expedite projects related with the National Rural Drinking Water Programme, Swachch Bharat Mission (Rural) and National Social Development Programmes.
Rawat said that district wise targets for linking Aadhar numbers of all beneficiaries under different projects should be given. He also directed the officers for timely disbursement of scholarships of social welfare department.
The CM said that only 69 percent of the MNREGA labourers are getting payment from banks while Aadhar linking of 99.28 percent such labourers has been done. He said that the bank accounts of all job card holders of MNREGA should be linked with Aadhar and their payments should be generated from the banks.
Rawat was particularly peeved on the slow pace of works in the horticulture department and Centre for Aromatic Plants and directed that review of these departments should be done at Principal Secretary level once in every three months.
In the meeting it was informed that due to non availability of targeted number of eligible families of minorities and SC ST under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, the State Government has sent a request to the union Government to revise targets.
The CM was informed that under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana 8123 km of roads against a target of 11143 km are constructed. In the National Rural Drinking Water Programme 37 percent of the allotted budget has been utilised.
The State level monitoring committee is constituted under the Union Ministry of Rural Development. The rural development Minister is the chairman of the committee. Four lok Sabha, one Rajya Sabha and five nominated MlAs are the members of the committee.
The meeting was also attended MlAs Deshraj Karnwal, Pritam Singh Panwar, Additional Chief Secretary Ranvir Singh and Principal Secretary Rural Development Manisha Panwa.