The district administration’s initiative to organise a public grievance redressal camp in Naxal-hit Mohla block in Rajnandgaon district to dispose off complaints lodged by local residents, proved a big success, official sources claimed on Saturday.
As many as 799 cases out of total 827 applicants, received during the camp, were disposed on the spot.
As per the department-wise categorisation of the applications, 145 applications related to the revenue department, 70 applications related to Janpad Panchayat, 25 applications related to PHE, 35 applications related to the tribal development department and 27 applications related to Chhattisgarh State Power Distribution Company limited were disposed of on the spot.
Similarly, the employment exchange department received as many as 244 applications, submitted by the literate-unemployed youths to register themselves, while the transport department received as many as 230 applications for providing the learning license.
The camp proved advantageous for the tribal farmers too. The agriculture department provided diesel pumps to eight farmers, fan (udhavani) to five farmers and agriculture equipments to two farmers.
The State horticulture and farm forestry department distributed free saplings among the villagers. Besides, the State animal husbandry department distributed free hybrid fodder.
On the occasion, MlA Tejkunwar Netam of the opposition Congress expressed happiness for organising the district-level camp in Dumartola village, where senior officials from different departments gathered under one roof to solve of the problem of local residents.
The MlA urged the district administration to soon clear the dues of villagers under MGNREGA and also sort out the shortage of Government teachers in the area — which has been hit by leftist insurgency — for about three decades.
Netam also drew the officials’ attention towards standstill construction work of an Ashram and student hostels, improve quality of an under construction road of PMGSY in Jamadi, tighten the loose electricity wires and repair the hand-pumps lying damaged in Salhebhatti area.
On the occasion, the collector Ashok Agrawal instructed the officials concerned to return ration-cards to the beneficiaries after completing the verification work.
He also asked the sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) to hear grievances related to the ration-card scheme and distribute ration-cards among the eligible candidates.
The collector informed the people about preparing a waiting list of the beneficiaries of Indira Awas Yojana. He asked the Gram Panchayat officials to send a proposal to the district office through Janpad Panchayat for demanding required equipments for the destitute people residing there.
Agrawal said that BEO will release the local teachers’ salary only after the Gram Panchayat will verify their attendance in the school.
He took the issue of not giving encouragement amount to ‘Mitanin’ seriously and asked the BMO to develop coordination with the CEO and Panchayat secretary to soon release the amount.
Former Minister, Govardhan Netam, Former MlA, Shivraj Usare, Zila Panchayat member, Taturam Bhuarya, SDM lokesh Chandrawat and other public representatives and officials concerned were present.