Pauri Garhwal Zila Panchayat president Deepti Rawat said on Tuesday that she would personally assess development work done in a year and if any discrepancy is found it will be corrected. Special attention will be paid to quality of the work, she said. She said that the public representatives should work amongst the people and the works should be visible on the ground.
Taking to the media at district headquarters, Pauri after completing one year as the Zila Panchayat, Zila Panchayat president, Rawat said that the development work could be assessed with the cooperation of Zila Panchayat members, officers and staff of the Zila Panchayat.
She said that the Zila Panchayat had got a budget of `14.13 crore for 2013-14 and 2014-15 in 13th Finance Commission and State Finance Commission. With this amount, Zila Panchayat has conducted 1,431 development works, which include 329 CC roads, 126 contact roads, permanent Sauchalaya in different places, seven sports grounds, 18 community development works and construction of 46 safety retaining walls. In addition, 132 drinking water schemes were executed, 18 link roads, 83 Yatri sheds were constructed and 476 solar lights were installed.
Rawat said that maximum solar lights will be installed in the rural areas to give the villagers respite from leopard scare.