Governor Ramesh Bais today said that he is committed to the development of the State and is always available to know about various problems in the interest of the State. The Governor said any public undertaking can make him aware of the various problems prevailing here, in the interest of the State, he will always try to solve those problems properly. The Governor was meeting with the heads of Central Public Sector Undertakings under the State of Jharkhand at Raj Bhavan on Wednesday.
The Governor said that industries play an important role in the development of any State, whether they are large industrial establishments, cottage or small scale industries. He said that he wants that various public sector undertakings and enterprises established in the state of Jharkhand should progress on the path of rapid progress in public interest. In the meeting, the Governor, while reviewing the instructions given by the Central Government to the Public Sector Undertakings and getting information about the various problems being faced by the undertakings in its implementation, said that in the interest of the State and public welfare, if they have any problem at any level, they could come without hesitation and make him aware of his problems.
“The problems of your undertakings could probably have been properly solved by me in the past. Today all of you were invited to inform us about the progress of industrial establishments and to apprise them about the various challenges and problems being faced in the course of development of your establishments,” he said.
While reviewing the work being done under CSR, he said that our industrial establishments and public undertakings should not use the CSR funds to be spent for unnecessary works, but keeping in mind the needs of public interest. He asked the company representatives to do the work under CSR according to the needs of the public. He also got information about the work done by various undertakings in human interest during the Corona epidemic.
The Governor, while receiving information about their financial condition i.e. profit and loss from all public undertakings, asked them to pay attention towards the pace of development with their better working style and solve the prevailing problems. He also asked about the reasons for going into losses from H.E.C. It was apprised by the officials that this establishment could not adopt modernization according to the times. The machine they have is very old. Still H.E.C. has orders of Rs 1700 crores, of which nuclear sector has orders of more than Rs 300 crores.
If HEC gets financial assistance, then it will be a big step in the field of self-reliant India. It was said by the Government that the government was requested to give 3 thousand crores to this undertaking, out of more than one thousand acres of unusable land, permission should be given to sell about 200 acres of land so that it would be equipped with modern machines according to the times for the development of the nation.
On the said occasion, Additional Chief Secretary to Governor Shailesh Kumar Singh, Director, Industries Department and representatives of various Central Undertakings like Bharat Coking Coal Limited, Central Coalfields Limited, Eastern Coalfields Limited, CMPDI, Heavy Engineering Corporation Limited. , MECON Limited, Uranium Corporation of India Limited, Hindustan Copper Limited, Damodar Valley Corporation, National Mineral Development Corporation, BEML Ltd., NTPC Ltd., Steel Authority of India Ltd., Bokaro Steel Plant, Indian Institute of Coal Management etc were present.