Chief Minister Hemant Soren has called a high-level meeting at project Building Secretariat on Thursday to review the status of 17-point programme, he had given to Chief Secretary few weeks back. Issues of finalisation of programmes for State foundation day and implementation of new schemes in the State would also be discussed in the meeting, in which Principal Secretaries and Secretaries of departments that are on priority list would take part.
The meeting will include issues of recruitment of aspirants who had passed TET examination, starting of Open Jail at Hazaribagh, distribution of foodgrains to people over 65 years of age for free, increase in the amount of Old-Age pension and adding more old-age people into the scheme, increasing amount of widow pension, Implementation of Journalists’ Insurance Scheme and setting up of a trust, providing alternative employment opportunities for tribal youths, construction of PCC roads in Panchayats and villages, providing rickshaws to rickshaw pullers who hold BPl cards, clearing backlogs of vacant posts at district levels.
The issues will also include setting up of Old-Age homes in all districts, execution of plan for giving jobs to national and international players directly, implementation of plans for conducting Janta Darbar at block levels by BDOs, preparing guidelines for expenses under CSR activities by public sector enterprises and making them accountable towards development of a region etc.
The CM will assess implementation of all the schemes during the meeting in which the Chief Secretary and all the Secretaries of concerned departments have been asked to attend with full preparation.