Chief secretary, Alok Ranjan directed to expedite work of starting campuses of agriculture universities in Azamgarh and lakhimpur Kheri besides time bound completion of 813 on-going construction of agriculture marketing hubs as well as that of Kisan Bazars.
Reviewing the performances of agriculture, agriculture education, agriculture marketing and cooperative departments, here on Thursdayafternoon. Alok Ranjan directed that to open campuses of agriculture university in lakhimpur Kheri and Azamgarh, they required staff which included teachers, professors, etc, as well the infrastructure should be made at earliest so that the academic session in the two new campuses could be taken up in the next session in 2015. He said that 60 students would be imparted training in this campuses every year.
Similarly he said that construction of 813 agriculture marketing hubs should be made by December this year. Besides, he directed to complete work of special marketing places in Bundelkhand area by next year and time frame should be also laid for opening such markets at every district level in the region.
On the occasion, Ranjan while coming down heavily over delay in work, had set-up time frame for completion of 133 rural infrastructure centers in 7 districts of Bundelkhand out of which 24 were in Jhansi, 22 in lalitpur, 20 in Banda, 16 in Chitrakut, 10 in Mahoba, 22 in Hamirpur, and 19 in Jalaun.
likewise he asked that work for Kisan Bazar in lucknow should be completed by December 2015 while similar bazaars would be also opened in Etawah (Saifai) by June 2015 and in Jhansi by December 2014. It may be mentioned that Kisan Bazar will be just on the lines of `Delhi Hat’ through which producers would be given proper platform to directly sell their yields to customers and get good profit. The total budget allocated by the government for the purpose is Rs 126.74 crore.
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