With Chief Minister Harish Rawat now focusing on ensuring repair and development works especially in disaster-affected areas after completion of polling in the Parliamentary polls, the State administration has instructed District Magistrates to ensure that the disaster-related works being executed through project implementation units (PIU) should be completed by June 30.
Recently through videoconferencing, the Chief Secretary Subhash Kumar instructed DMs of disaster affected districts to give the full expenditure details of disaster-related works executed through PIUs after the counting of votes polled in the parliamentary elections.Kumar said that in case money has not been released for undertaking the disaster related work sanctioned by the PIUs, demand should be made for the same. Food Secretary Umakant Panwar instructed the DMs to ensure that the food grains are stored in storehouses before the start of rainy season.
The Pauri District Magistrate Chandresh Kumar said that the district has released Rs7.50 crore for works under PIU, of which Rs6.78 crore was spent on 10 PIU sanctioned works in the district. The PIUs at Srinagar, Pauri and Kotdwar have sanctioned many works on the basis of estimated cost but the funds have not been released for these works yet.The DM further said that the Public Works Department has started renovation work of the Khirsu-Khankra- Kherakhal-Kandai motor road which is expected to be completed before the advent of the rainy season.