Tehri Garhwal MP Mala Rajya laxmi Shah stressed on marinating quality of works while reviewing progress of the Centrally sponsored schemes at a meeting involving Dehradun District Development Co-ordination and Monitoring Committee at the Collectorate on Saturday.
Among the schemes whose progress was reviewed were Mahatama Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, Prime Minister Gram Sadak Yojana, National Peyjal Programme, National Rural livelihood Mission, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Rural Skill Scheme, PM Housing Scheme, Swachchha Bharat Mission, PM Agriculture Irrigation Scheme, PM Crops Insurance Scheme, National Health Mission, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and National Social Assistance Programme.
She said that the works should be completed through coordination among all the officers concerned. As far as the projects which are operational are concerned she asked the officers to maintain quality apart from ensuring that the projects are completed on time. She further said that the local representatives should be informed from time to time of the progress of the operational projects.
list of such projects should be provided to the local representatives too so as to ensure that they monitor the progress and see to it that quality is maintained of the welfare schemes meant to benefit the people of the areas they represent.
While PM Gramin Sadak Yojana was reviewed, the district panchayat chairperson Chaman Singh said that executing agencies of cable wire and communication hardly care to inform the departments concerned and the senior administrative officers before they dig the roads.
Besides, the roads thus dig are not repaired immediately after the works are over to the inconvenience of the commuters and the pedestrians alike. He said things must be corrected promptly to spare the people inconvenience.
He said FIRs should be lodged against the agencies which dig roads without seeking prior permission from the district officers. He further said that the list of roads which are to come up in the forest areas should be submitted to the forest department.
DM Rainath Raman directed the district officers to ensure that public welfare schemes or other construction works now underway are completed at the earliest on a priority basis. He at the same time said that quality of such works should not be compromised under any circumstances.
Dehradun Chief Development officer AK Pandey said that out of total Rs 20.77 crores received under MNREGS from the Central government for the year 2016-17, Rs 20.70 has been spent to provide jobs to the card holders. He assured that development of the villages through the scheme has been going on in full swing.