Governor Droupadi Murmu today instructed senior officials heading different government departments to work in coordination for the betterment of people in the State. While holding a review meeting of various welfare schemes for ST, SC, PTGs and other backward classes at Raj Bhawan on Wednesday the Governor stressed on empowerment of the classes through involvement of their representatives.
Murmu said that the population of Primitive Tribal Groups has gone down and possibly they are also suffering from malnutrition. Therefore, she said that people from within the PTGs can be chosen, trained and included in the awareness campaign so that better results could be obtained.
The Governor also instructed them to ensure proper security arrangements at Kasturba Gandhi Girls Schools and asked to solve the teachers’ crisis issue. She also asked officials to consider starting the tribal languages classes in primary schools. She stressed on the need of proper monitoring of the awareness campaign on nutrition in the State by Anganwadi Sevikas, sahiyas, district level officers and department officials.
She asked them to take the issue of skill development in State very seriously and said that there was a need of qualitative training of skill development to the youths of the State so that they can get employment.
Discussion on hostels also took place in the meeting, where the Governor asked officials to repair the decaying hostels. She also asked to make payment of post matriculation stipend to the beneficiaries at the earliest. The department secretary informed that the payments for online applications have been done. The secretary also informed that several cases of forged certificates of income certificates are coming to fore for stipend.
During the meeting several other issues related to welfare of the poor and the subjugated classes were discussed. The Meeting was attended by Welfare Minister louis Marandi, Development Commissioner Amit Khare, Principal Secretary to Governor SK Satpathy, Additional Chief Secretary of Rural Development Department NN Sinha, Social welfare Secretary MS Bhatia, Higher and Technical Education Department Secretary Ajoy Kumar Singh, Welfare Department Secretary Himani Pandey, School Education and literacy Department Secretary Aradhana Patnaik, labour and Employment Department Secretary Amitabh Kaushal, Director Health Sumant Mishra alongwith others senior officials were present in the meeting.