Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand has directed officials to ensure adequate drinking water supply using solar powered pumps to hostels, Government hospitals and bus stands in the district. Dhand has also directed the officials to develop educational facilities and increase quality of education in the district. The Chief Secretary while holding a review meeting of district level officers of various departments at the district headquarters here reviewed progress of departmental schemes.
Dhand instructed the officials of School Education and Tribal Development Department to inspect schools, hostels and ashram schools regularly and asked to submit their inspection report to the collector. He said that the State Government had been observing year 2014 as ‘Education Quality Year’. The ‘Education Quality Committee’ headed by the Collector would review educational activities of the district every 15 days, he added.
The Chief Secretary provided emphasis on serious adherence to all the guidelines of the Government in the matter of rationalisation of teachers in schools of the district.
He instructed to complete the under construction school buildings, being constructed under the ‘National Secondary Education Mission.’ In the meeting, Dhand stressed on arrangement of drinking water, arrangements in hospitals, public distribution system, fertilisers and seeds to farmers during monsoon, preparations for dealing with natural disasters, cultivation of horticulture crops, situation of Saal seed and Tendupatta collection and other Government schemes.
He instructed to increase pineapple and ‘litchi’ cultivation area in the district and to give every possible help to the farmers for that under horticulture schemes. In order to prevent incidents of snakebites in Pharsabahar areas of the district, Collector Himshikhar Gupta informed about the proposal for establishment of a Snake Garden and Research Centre. The Collector informed the Chief Secretary that for the prevention of human trafficking, local committees were formed with public participation in all the 411 village panchayats of the district. Besides, district-level human trafficking prevention unit has also been established and strict vigil is being kept on suspicious persons.
Director General of Police AN Upadhyay, Additional Chief Secretary, Agriculture and Health Department Ajay Singh, Principal Secretary, Urban Administration and PWD RP Mandal, Principal Chief Conservator of Forest AK Singh, Secretary, PHED and Water Resources Department Ganesh Shankar Mishra, Director, Health, Dr Kamalpreet Singh, Director, National Secondary Education Mission and
Public Relations Department Rajat Kumar, Inspector General of Police, Sarguja Ranger, TJ langkumre and other senior officers were present in the meeting.