The State Government has nominated 16 senior officers from Raipur headquarter as State-level nodal officers for district level review and site inspection of departmental works of all schemes run under the Tribal and Scheduled Caste Development Department.
These officers have been given separate charge of all the 27 districts of the State. The nodal officers, along with inspection of departmental schemes, will conduct special inspection of girl’s ashram schools and hostels in the district under their charge in every three months. Similarly, at district-level, the collector concerned will nominate different nodal officers for separate institution.
As per the order, issued on the instruction of Additional Chief Secretary NK Aswal by Commissioner Tribal and Scheduled Caste Development MS Paraste, the nominated senior officers who were made the in-charge of districts are - Additional Director Sharda Verma, Bastar and Sukma; Additional Director lK Gupta, Kondagaon and Narayanpur; Deputy Commissioner Dipti Banarjee, Sarguja and Balrampur-Ramanujganj; Deputy Commissioner RS Singh, Raigarh and Jashpur; Deputy Commissioner Jitendra Gupta, Dhamtari and Kanker; Deputy Commissioner Sanjay Gaud, Bilaspur and Raipur; Deputy Commissioner RK Mishra, Durg and Bemetara; Deputy Commissioner (legal cell Bilaspur) AR Navrang, Janjgir-Champa and Korba; Joint Director (Finance) Dr Alpana Ghosh, Korea and Sarguja, Assistant Commissioner BR Banjare, Dantewada and Bijapur; Assistant Commissioner DS Patel, Balodabazar-Bhattapara, Mahasamund and Gariyaband; Assistant Commissioner GR Sahu, Rajnandgaon and Balod and Assistant Commissioner JR Rathia, Mungeli and Kabirdham.
The nodal officers have been instructed to submit their inspection report to the office of the Commissioner, Tribal and Scheduled Caste Development mandatorily. Commissioner Paraste has issued instructions to all the district-level officers of the department to conduct health check-up of the girls of all the Government and non-Government girls’ hostels and girls’ ashram schools in the districts under their jurisdiction, on the return of the girls from their holidays.
Paraste said that Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand had instructed all the district collectors to appoint nodal officers in each Government and non-Government institutions to ensure security arrangement of ashram schools and hostels run for the tribal, scheduled caste and backward class children and for the inspection of institutions.