In view of the forthcoming local body elections, incomplete works in rural areas should be completed at the earliest, said Collector Mukesh Bansal.
While reviewing the situation of disposal of pending applications and complaints of different departments in the time-bound meeting organised here on Wednesday, the Collector told the officersof Rural Development Department that the work started during the period of present Sarpanchs should be completed by September end, at any cost.
He also instructed to clear the account of fund given to panchayats.The Collector advised the Janpad panchayat CEOs to take care while giving advance amount to panchayats for construction work.The works for which amount is released on installments, should immediately be evaluated and the amount be released to panchayats for completion of the remaining works.
Officers of Rural Development Department should be deployed for monitoring the works of village panchayats, he added.In the meeting, District Panchayat CEO Rajesh Singh Rana, Additional Collector Shyam Dhavde, SDM Neelesh Kshirsagar, Assistant Collector Gaurav Kumar Singh, Joint Collector Priyanka Rishi Mahobiya, all SDMs and officers of all departments were present.
Bansal directed the Education Officer and Assistant Commissioner, Tribal Welfare Department to propose action against suspended ‘Shikshak Panchayat,’ asper rule.He directed to give benefit of Indira Awas Yojana to the remaining 26 Jhara families of Ektal village.Out of the total 52 BPl Jhara families, 22 have been given the benefit of Indira Awas. In the meeting, the Collector issued guidelines to the officers concerned for allotment of additional land to medical college and nursing college.
On the complaint against Patwari of Dhanagar for showing alleged carelessness in Government work and irregularities, the collector instructed the SDM to suspendhim immediately and to initiate departmental enquiry against him.He asked the Executive Engineer, Chief Minister Rural Road Development Project, Gupta to prepare an estimate for completion of incomplete construction of road from Chimtapani to Bamhanpali, under MNREGA and to send it for sanction.
The Collector expressed displeasure over the delay in the construction of Srijan Bhawan’s first floor and the District Registrar office building in the Collectorate premises and instructed to serve notice on the Sub Engineer concerned.On the distribution of kerosene under PDS, the Collector warned the Food officer that any kind of irregularity in the supply of kerosene would not be tolerated. He asked all the SDMs to ensure vigilance over the supply of kerosene.