With an aim to extend public welfare schemes launched by the State Government to all the villages through panchayat officers, Chief Secretary Sunil Kumar on Friday instructed officials of Panchayat and Rural Development department to include those schemes in the syllabus material of training centres run by the department and also told them to provide the course material time to time.
While addressing a meeting of high-powered committee of Backward Region Grant Fund (BRGF), the Chief Secretary told the training centre of officials to invite directorate-level officers as faculty members in order to make training more effective and useful, and advised them be contact with departmental heads and secretaries concerned, as per the need.
State’s top officer also reviewed extensively the works being executed under the BRGF and development fund and instructed them to ensure the utility of the Aanganwadi centres, community buildings and fair price shops and different other buildings constructed from under these schemes. He asked the district in-charge secretaries and divisional commissioners that whenever they go for any tour, they should inspect these buildings and should submit report on the utility of them.
The Chief Secretary said that women in Chhattisgarh were doing good work through women self-help groups and told officials concerned to help them in establishing detergent powder, pappad and vegetable processing units and provide marketing facility under the integrated work plan and BRGF. Under the capacity development fund, Rs 17.91 crore worth work plan has been approved for the year 2013-14.
Additional Chief Secretary Panchayat and Rural Development department Vivek Dhand said that under the development fund a total Rs 1591 crore has been received during the last five years. More than 99,000 different construction works have been sanctioned, of which 89,000 construction works have been completed.
He said that on the availability land with the fair price shops, one room each would be constructed, in which the materials produced by the women self-help groups would be stored and sold.ACS Agriculture Ajay Singh, Principal Secretary Forest Amitabh Jain, Secretary food Vikassheel, Secretary Tribal Welfare Manoj Pingua, Secretary School Education DK Shrivastava and other officers were present at the meeting.