Deputy Commissioner (Ranchi) Manoj Kumar has urged farmers not to panic, as government was taking every step to keep them safe in flood-like situation which has arisen out of continued heavy rain. During his monthly Media Samvad on Wednesday to keep district abreast of activities of local government so far and plans ahead, he said that 50 seed villages were being developed in district, as merely 35 per cent seed were available locally.
“We have been working on number of fronts to make people’s life easier. People will soon be enjoying high-speed internet driven documenting facilities in all the Panchayat Bhawans from August with added Pragya Kendras. Recruitment of e-Block Managers in all the blocks of districts have already been done to look into the matters related to Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT), Public Distribution System (PDS), Aadhaar seeding of bank accounts of MGNREGA workers and school students,” said Kumar. He added that bench-desk had been made available to almost all the schools in districts and left out, if any, would be covered by August.
He also said that Panchayat Bhawans and nearest schools had been turned into temporary shelters for those families badly hit by sudden downpour in last couple of days. “PMG Digital Shaksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA) will be run during August 1-20 in which students will be provided computer training up to 20 hours completely free. Moreover, we have targeted distribution of at least 20,000 cycles through DBT in August itself,” added the DC where DDC, ADM, JSCPCR Chairperson and other officials of district were also present.
Nagri block of the district was going to witness another milestone experiment being conducted there after it was chosen for cashless transaction to start with in State last year, and that is DBT in PDS other than Kerosene oil. “At present we are using DBT in Kerosene oil, and we are in process of taking it to other food items too, being provided by such shops. If this experiment turns successful as expected, we will replicate it in other blocks of districts,” said the DC.
Sadar DySP Vikas Chandra Srivastava said in the Samvad organised at Visionary Training Centre in Sarla Birla School premises (Tatisilvai) that the police were working on District Seal Plan (DSP) in which 11 check points on inner and out circles of the city were identified.