Chief Minister Hemant Soren today chaired a series of review meetings of different departments in a bid to pace up the development works in the State. On the occasion, he instructed officials to complete pending works in time and ensure that the fruits of development schemes reach the last person on the social strata.
During the review of Energy department the CM said that promotion of solar power plants is the priority of the government. In such a situation, solar power plant should be established as a business model. An action plan should be made for this. He said that people should be motivated with information to set up solar power plants, so that they come forward in this direction. This will also increase their income. He directed the Deputy Commissioners of the districts to take necessary steps to identify maximum land for solar power plants.
The CM said that solar plants should be constructed in all the districts. “Giridih has been declared as Solar City. You can also look at this from a business point of view. Motivate people to install solar plants. The government will buy the electricity produced from there. It will become a source of income for the people. Mark and inform the Deputy Commissioner of the district so that the process of setting up solar plants can be started. For UMPP Tilaiya, complete the work of identification, verification and encroachment-free land acquired in Koderma and Hazaribagh districts,” he said.
Reviewing the works of the Department of Revenue, Registration and Land Reforms the CM took information on pending cases of dismissals, land demarcation cases, cases pending in the court of revenue officials, status of compensation for land acquisition and matters related to transfer of land to various departments.
Additional Chief Secretary of the department, L Khiyangte said that the cases are not being heard regularly in the courts of revenue officers and the pending cases are also not being executed. This is a matter of great concern. The CM said that regular meetings of e-courts of Deputy Commissioner, Additional Collector, Sub-Divisional Officer and other revenue officials should be held. Also prepare a list of pending cases in the court and execute them on priority basis.
The CM said that the cases of filing work without no-objection should be executed by launching a drive. Khiyangte apprised the Chief Minister about the steps taken to create a land bank for the industries. There are about 12 hundred crore rupees of compensation lying in the banks. Due to non-acquisition of land, many big projects are facing hurdles in commissioning. The DCs of all the districts should take swift steps to distribute the compensation among the beneficiaries in the matters related to land acquisition.
While reviewing the works of Mining and Geology department the CM said that illegal mining should be stopped at any cost so that there is no loss of revenue to the government. Departmental Secretary, Pooja Singhal apprised the CM of a district level task force that has been constituted under the chairmanship of DCs to check illegal mining.
The Departmental Secretary said that an amount of Rs 7693 crore has been received under DMFT fund in the last 6 years. Out of this, Rs 3120 crore has been spent in various schemes. She also informed that in view of Covid-19, permission has been given to spend the amount for medical infrastructure under DMFT fund. This also includes setting up an oxygen plant.
While reviewing the Labour Department, Soren said that wide publicity should be ensured for the registration of workers in the unorganised sector. More and more workers can be registered and they can get benefit of government schemes. Toppo informed that the workers of the unorganised sector can register themselves in two ways. Under this, workers can register themselves through Pragya Kendra or on the labour portal. He said that so far 2 lakh 61 thousand workers have been registered on the e-shram portal and necessary instructions have already been given to all the DCs to achieve the target.
The CM directed the Road Construction Department to give proper and timely compensation to the ryyats for land acquisition in road construction schemes. He said that camps should be organized for distribution of compensation among the ryyats. On this occasion, the Secretary of the Department, Sunil Kumar apprised the CM of the progress of various road projects of NHAI and Road Construction Department.
The CM said that all the matters related to land acquisition related to road projects would be supervised by the Commissioner. Apart from this, the problems related to forest land regarding road plans should also be executed in collaboration with the forest department.