Information about parliamentary local area development scheme, including details of available amount in the scheme for the State, sanctioned amount and progress of work, will be posted in the Chhattisgarh government website cg.nic.in.
This decision was taken here on Wednesday at the meeting of Members of Parliament from Chhattisgarh. MPs Ramesh Bains, Chandulal Sahu, Sohan Potai, Murarilal Singh, Vishnudev Sai and Rajya Sabha members Nandkumar Sai and Dr Bhushan lal Jangade and senior officers of the state government were present at the meeting.
In the meeting Additional Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand presented details of progress of work done in the state under the scheme. He instructed officers of all the government departments concerned to complete immediately all the sanctioned and under-construction works of the parliamentary local area development scheme. He said that the construction agencies should pay full attention on quality of the work. On the suggestions of the MPs, Dhand instructed the officers concerned to post all information related to this scheme running in all the 27 districts on the website.
The MPs stressed on completing works sanctioned for the respective areas within time limit and said if any construction agency could not start the work because any reason, the officers concerned should give the information to the MPs immediately, so that they could sanction the amount to any other work. The officers said that all the works done under this scheme in the state so far were being evaluated through independent agency and in future the work would be audited by the auditors of Comptroller and Auditor General.
It was informed in the meeting that the Central government did not release the second instalment of the amount of the scheme for the year 2012-13 to Chhattisgarh. Dhand instructed the officers to maintain continuous contact with the Central government in this regard. The officers said that during the present lok Sabha period, up to May 2013, under the scheme, Rs 13.68 crore had been allotted to the districts. From this amount, on the recommendations of the MPs 4,893 have been sanctioned out of which 3,166 works have been completed.