Deputy Commissioner of Palamu Shantanu Kumar Agrahari took stock of the PM Awas Yojna-Gramin ( PMAY) and toilets under Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) at Ramgarh block on Sunday.
Sources said the DC and DDC Bindu Madhav Prasad Singh and others spent more than two and half hours there at Ramgarh block and met mukhiyas, panchayat sewaks and SBM mobilisers there. The team returned late in the evening of Sunday.
Speaking to The Pioneer the DC said, “Our one panchayat Uldanda in these seven panchayat Ramgarh block is ODF while 6 other panchayats have been asked to accelerate the work.”
Uldanda had a target of 973 toilets and it is ready with it said DDC Bindu Madhav Singh. The six other panchayats namely Bansdeeh has to build 400 shouchalays, Berma Babhandi 585, Chorhat 675, Nawadeeh 730, Ramgarh 179 and Hutar 406.
The DC conceded that in rainy season there is the natural crisis of sand but it can be met with sand from sand stockiest. There are about a dozen authorised sand stockiest. Many of them are in Chainpur block which is 22 kms away from Ramgarh block.
Nearly 80 cft of sand is required for one toilet and those who want to make a big one after pooling in their own money the sand requirement is double 160 cft said one junior engineer of drinking water & sanitation department.
DC said, “One mukhiya told me that he is building a shouchalaya with the help of four bamboos and plastic cover to carry out wall construction beneath it in these rainy days.”
Palamu administration has set a deadline for completion of houses under PM Awas Yojna Gramin under Ramgarh block. According to the DDC 150 houses of 2016 -17 and 831 houses of the year 2017 -18 at this Ramgarh block are yet to be completed. The target for the PMAYG was 365 in 2016 -17 and 963 in 2017 -18. For the current year 2018 -19 the whole of Ramgarh block has a target of 404 houses under this yojna where take off is awaited. The administration is set to first complete the pendency of houses of two financial years beginning 2016 to 2018.
DC said “I have directed the beneficiaries and block officials to ensure completion of these by the October end.” He said all houses under PMAYG will have uniform colour writing of details of completion of PMAYG house with year and occupants of the houses.