You are lucky that your representative in Parliament had chosen your Panchayat to be developed as an ideal village. Your active participation and contribution is necessary to fulfill this dream so please construct toilets in every household by October 02, 2016 to get the status of open defecation free, it will really make your panchayat an ideal for others. Government will give Rs12,000 to you for it so start today to get the goal as soon as possible,” stated by DC Hazaribagh Ravishankar Shukla in his meeting with the villagers of Peto panchayat of Keredari block of the district.
Shukla visited MP Jayant Shukla’s ideal village Peto on Thursday along with some district and block officials to take a ground level look of the developmental works going on in the panchayat. He appealed to everyone present in the meeting to keep eye on the quality of developmental works because the works going on are for yours benefit and comforts.
In this meeting the villagers raised the problems of drinking water in the area and demanded construction of wells. DC said that after rainy season 25 wells will be constructed here and the selection will be made by gram sabha. He also enquired about the proposed drinking water project for Keredari and Peto. The EE of PHED informed him that DPR is ready and soon the work of acquisition of land will start. He directed him to give a detailed report to the block office and district office within a week. He also directed him to start the minor irrigation project closed since long in this area.
The villagers also raised the problem of ration card, different types of pension schemes, roads etc and on every problem DC gave positive response and direction to the subordinates. Regarding pension he assured that by 15th of October every eligible person will get pension through their bank account and on the demand of road he informed that 1 km road will be constructed from MP lad and rest from the district fund.
Taking the complains of use of machines in MNREGA works Shukla warned the block officials and staffs that he is not going to leave anyone engaged in this malpractice if such type of complain will come to him next time. He appealed to the villagers to directly consult him if someone tries to deviate from the norms of MNREGA.