A surprise visit was made at Wasdi village, severely affected by Maoist insurgency, in the district on Sunday by District Collector Ashok Agarwal and Superintendent of Police Sanjeev Shukla to inquire about the welfare of the villagers and the development projects.
Both the Collector and the SP held a small community meeting at Bazar chowk at Wasdi to receive information regarding employment, power supply, drinking water and food grain supply issues.
Agarwal, after hearing the demands made by the villagers directed that a new hand pump be installed for solving the drinking water problem near Gupta Hotel.
The Collector assured the villagers to get the road between Banjari and Wasdi tarred while also getting the Bhojtola road work completed. Agarwal also told the villagers that approval had been received for construction of a road from Chilhati till Patan. This apart, a 11.8 kms road would also be constructed between Chilhati to Tateksa.
Wasdi village sarpanch Sukel Harre informed the Collector that the people had been encountering a lot of difficulties on account of the bad condition of roads between Wasdi and Mohla. It may be mentioned that the extreme Maoist insurgency affected bordering village is Wasdi Mohla Develop- ment Block.
The Wasdi Banjari and Patan Khas village border Rai region of Maharashtra. The Sarpanch also spoke in detail about the status of Dandasur- Bhojtola road construction from Banjari.
Sukel alongwith other villagers told the Collector that no work had been done under Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification Project at Wasdi, Banjari and Patan Khar village.
They said that only trenches had been dug in the name of erecting electricity poles by Venus Power Company.
The Collector also inquired from the villagers about the availability of food grains and kerosene under the Public Distribution System.
Agarwal informed the
villagers that the process of issuance of new ration
cards had already started in the district and the same are being distributed after receipt of application forms.
He appealed to the villagers to deposit the
application forms for receiving the new ration cards by April 30 this year.
Agarwal also informed the villagers that the work for a brief revision of voter list
had already commenced in the district.
The task of deleting names of those who had died would be taken up alongwith addition of new names in
the voter list.
On the issue of delay in taking up the construction work for a High School building approved for Wasdi,
the Collector said that tenders had been invited many
times from the contractors
for taking up the work but
so far none have filled up
the tender which was
the cause of the delay in
starting work for construction of the building.
Present on the occasion were—Additional Superintendent of Police Vijay Agarwal, Executive Engineer, PWD, Executive Engineer, PHED (Mechanical) besides other officials.