In a bid to increase State economic resource, State Government has decided five per cent curtailment in State non-plan budget. It was decided in meeting led by Chief Minister Harish Rawat at Bijapur guest house on Thursday.The meeting was attended by Cabinet Ministers Indira Hridayesh, Pritam singh, Dinesh Dhanai and chief secretary Subhash kumar along with additional chief secretary Rakesh Sharma and other officials. During the meeting, the CM has instructed officials to take strict action to tackle the mining mafia.
“You also keep a close tab on flood control programme. It has been noticed that under the guise of flood protection programme executive agencies are doing mining on the debris disposal. You also make sure debris should be removed scientifically. For this you install CCTV camera at identified place to avoid illegal mining on the name of construction work,” said Rawat.
He also discussed how we can increase our revenue without putting an extra burden on people. During meeting they decided to constitute three committee and each committee will give recommendation about mining, forest and power reform works to the State Government.later their report will be produced before the cabinet. They will give recommendation about how State can increase their source of revenue by making reform in above three sectors.
CM Rawat has also stressed to identify possibility of new tourist destination and develop new trekking route as well. CM also asked them to upgrade commercial tax department infrastructure.
“You adopt professional attitude in power sector and give emphasis on how to reduce line loss and give emphasis on quality of transformer as well. You also find out solution about how to recover pending dues of UPCl and State Government as well. You also identify unused Government land so that we can use for other purpose,” added CM.