Following the rejuvenation and deepening work taken up for old ponds and reservoirs the Government has decided to replicate it on rivers. Chief Minister Raghubar Das in a meeting of Rural Development Department directed the officials to take steps in this direction.
The decision to deepen the rivers flowing in the State has been taken in order to improve their water retention capacity and flowing pattern.
“Dovas are being constructed around the State on mass level besides deepening ponds etc. The Government would now take-up river deepening exercise from the next year.
This apart, the CM has also called for using mine water and more and more plantation around the water bodies,” said an official after the meeting the Employment Guarantee Council on Wednesday.
In the meeting Rs 1000 crore of revolving fund for MGNREGA was also approved to facilitate more the schemes in taking up more meaningful works. All the accounts with post offices would be transferred to the banks. The CM also directed the officials to ensure payment of labourers within seven days and find out other glitches in the rural job scheme so that the Center can be appraised about that.
On agriculture front the CM directed the official to work on mission mode for encouraging and making farmers aware about double and multi-cropping and equip them with modern machines along with making them skilled. This apart, 4000 anganwadi centers would be built across the State. The CM also told for ensuing toilets to every Indira Awas along with water facility.
Besides the CM, Rural Development Minister Neelkant Singh Munda, Agriculture Minister Randheer Singh, Principal Secretary NN Sinha, MGNREGA Commissioner Siddharth Tripathi, labour Secretary SKG Rahate, Water Resources Secretary Sukhdeo Singh, Agriculture Secretary NM Kulkarni and Secretary to the CM Sunil Barnwal were present in the meeting.
The CS, in the meeting, gave a vivid picture of development work in the State, especially in the field of PRI strengthening, agriculture, health and nutrition, attracting investment in State, improvement in education system, employment generation, upgradation and revival of the energy sector etc.