About two and half dozen villages of Bastar district will soon have shopping complex, a memorandum of understanding for which has been signed between the State Government and the National Mineral Development Corporation recently.
The Agreement was signed in presence of Chhattisgarh Minister of Tribal Development Kedar Kashyap by district collector Ankit Anand on behalf of the State Government and NMDC Nagarnar project executive director Ganesh Vishwakarma.
Notably, on the proposal of Kedar Kashyap around 1.67 crore development
work will be taken up in 30 villages of Bastar district for which the NMDC will provide Rs1.76 crore to the State Government from its Corporate Social Responsibility Fund.
According to Minister Kedar Kashyap this fund
will be spent on construction of shopping complex, community Hall, and cycle stands in High School and Higher secondary schools
of these villages. Kashyap informed that out of the fund received from NMDC,
shopping complex cum
community centre will
be constructed at Villages Bakel, Kungarpal, Mandlapal, Kawargaon, Sudhapal, Sevani, Chamiya, Nandpura
and Soregaon. Rs9 lakh 67 thousand has been sanctioned for each of them.
At Villages Salemeta, Khandsara, Pakhnakonger, Kumhali, Phaphni Manjula, Rajpur, Guria, Vishrampuri and Ghotia shopping
complex cum community centre will be constructed at Rs5 lakh each.
Besides, cycle stands will be constructed in higher secondary schools located in villages of Kungarpal, Salhemeta, Chapka, Kesharpal, Farshaguda, Bhanpuri, Shivni, Mandlapal and Sonarpal at the cost of Rs2 lakh, 95 thousand and two hundred twenty nine each. Also Rs15 lakh has
been sanctioned for construction of Community Centre at Jagannath Mandir of Jagdalpur.