The Pauri District Planning Committee meeting, presided over by the Minister in-charge of Pauri district Dinesh Agrawal, held in Vikash Bhawan at the district headquarters Pauri on Wednesday sanctioned Rs30.02 crore for new projects under the district plan 2014-15 and approved an outlay of Rs102 crore for 2015-16 district plan.
Despite bad weather, Minister in charge Pauri district and Cabinet Minister for forest, sports, law, Agrawal reached district headquarters and attended the much-awaited DPC meeting. The meeting scheduled earlier on February 20 could not be held as the Minister failed to turn up due to the inclement weather.
Pauri District Magistrate had released Rs59.97 crore out of Rs90 crore for the running schemes of the district plan 2014-15 and the balance money Rs30.02 crore was sanctioned in the DPC meeting for the proposals of different departments for the new schemes.
Agrawal stressed that the members and the officers should coordinate with one another to enhance the speed of development and instructed that the proposals of different departments should be presented in DPC routing through Zila Panchayats. The departments should make survey of the schemes before putting the proposals for approval.
The Minister said that the department should give importance to the proposals of the members. He also directed it to pay due credence to the opinions of the representatives. At the same time, he asked the officials concerned of the department to ensure the inclusion of the development works proposed by the members in the district plan of 2015-16. He inquired into different schemes of the departments and asked the officials concerned to pay special attention to works related to roads, drinking water, non- conventional energy and irrigation. He instructed the forest department to go for the plantation of Burans and Kaafal and stressed that the efforts should be made to promote horticulture, floriculture and unseasonal vegetables in the district to boost economic growth.
He instructed the District Magistrate and Chief Development Officer to submit the reports after the proposed schemes are monitored. Zila Panchayat president Deepti Rawat said that the development proposals of departments should be first placed before the panchayats, while MlA lansdowne Dillip Rawat said that the bypass schemes should be forwarded through the representatives.
District Magistrate Chandra Sekhar Bhatt, Superintendent of Police Ajay Joshi, Chief Development Officer Sonika, D F O Raj Mani Pandey, Executive Engineer Jal Sansthan R K Rohella, EE Jal Nigam R C Mishra, Superintendenting Engineer PWD Rajesh Chandra and other district level officers and members were present in the meeting.