District Collector Brijesh Chandra Mishra on Thursday reviewed the preparations underway for Chief Minister Raman Singh’s ‘Vikas Yatra’ in the district on May 16. Singh would be touring Dhamdha, Ahiwara, Kamhari, Jamgaon-M and Patan during his tour of the district.
The District Collector, during his time-bound meeting held here issued necessary directives for the successful conduct of the Chief Minister’s tour of the district.
As per the preparations being held, public meetings would be held in Dhamdha, Ahiwara and Patan while a meeting to welcome Singh would be held at Jamgaon-M.
Mishra directed the officials in the meeting to complete the preparations at the earliest.
He said that during the public meetings of the Chief Minister, a number of development works would be inaugurated and bhoomi pujan and foundation laying would be carried out for others by him. The distribution of various items would also be taken up to beneficiaries of various welfare schemes of the Government.
For this, the Collector directed that various departments must provide related information regarding various schemes at the earliest.On the occasion, Mishra also assigned duties for arrangement of the stage, parking and traffic to the officials.
He said that the Chief Minister would tour the district by road during the Vikas Yatra and directed that the roads en route the Chief Minister’s travel programme must be inspected in advance by the Public Works Department.
The Nodal Officer appointed for the Chief Minister’s Vikas Yatra and Chief Executive Officer of Zila Panchayat Dr Ayyaz Faqir Tamboli informed in the meeting that the Vikas Yatra in the district would commence on May 6.
During the conduct of the Yatra, a number of ‘vikas raths’ would also be taken out for disseminating information of the various welfare schemes of the State government.The responsibility of preparing the’vikas raths’ had been offered to the Agriculture Department, Horticulture Department, Rajiv Gandhi Shiksha Mission and Chief Medical and Health Officer, he said.Tamboli said that the ‘vikas raths would be ready for a roll out by May 5.
He said that exhibitions of various government departments would be held in the venues where the Chief Minister would address the public meetings.
The Chief Minister during the Vikas Yatra would be accompanies by In-charge Minister of the district Ramvichar Netam besides Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Hemchand Yadav, Tamboli said.
The Collector during the meeting also directed that all pending works approved for year 2012-13 under Mukhya Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, Gram Gaurav Path, Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana and MNREGS be completed with quality ensured for them by May 31 this year.
He also directed that all pending payments under MNREGS be made to the registered labourers by May 31 this year. Mishra also asked to expedite redressal of issues related to pension, pension for the differently abled through discretionary funds available for offering assistance.
Those present in the meeting today were—Additional Collector K K Agarwal, Additional District Magistrate Sunil Jain, Commissioner, Bhilai Municipal Corporation Anil Tuteja, Commissioner, Durg City Municipal Corporation D K Singh besides other officials.