Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Ajay Chandrakar on Wednesday said that apart from plain land, the development works in scheduled areas should be taken as a challenge and accomplished with utmost responsibility. He set a deadline of three months to complete the pending works.
Chandrakar reviewed the status of works being undertaken by Rural Engineering Services (RES) in the villages.
He was informed by the officers that 63,921 works have been completed while 77,951 works are under process in different villages of the State.
The Minister took stock of the progress of works under RES, Watershed, Prime Minister Road Scheme, Chief Minister’s Gaurav Path and Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) schemes.
Chandrakar said that development of villages is the development of nation and thus action plans should be prepared and executed without any discrimination.
“The works should be completed in a given time frame but no compromise should be made with the quality of construction works,” instructed Chandrakar. The officers of Prime Minister Road Scheme informed in the meeting that construction of 6,374 roads worth `991 crore have been sanctioned for the State. The length of these roads is 28,479 kilometers.
They said that as many as 9,325 settlements will be benefitted by construction of these roads. Till date, 4,836 roads of 21897 kilometre length have been constructed for `549 crore. These roads have connected as many as 7,272 settlements of the State. The Minister instructed the officers that all incomplete roads of the State should be completed in time by setting the targets.
Chandrakar said that special work plans should be prepared for insurgency hit areas. He instructed to include the work of beautification of ponds, cremation grounds, construction of drains, play grounds, etc in MNREGA.
The officers informed that 42 lakh households have been registered under MNREGA in the State and a target of 1214 lakh work days has been set. They further informed that 10298 lakh work days have been created against the target. Principal Secretary (Panchayat and Rural Development) MK Raut, Chief Programme Officer of Prime Minister Road Scheme Sudhir Agarwal and other senior officers of the department were present in the meeting.