The State Development Council sub-committee constituted for making three year work plan of Jharkhand today convened its maiden meeting where primarily discussions were held focussing Agriculture and Related Areas and Resources and Governance.
The meeting was chaired by T Nandkumar, Padma Shri Ashok Bhagat members of the State Development Council, Development Commissioner Amit Khare, Economist Ramesh Sharan and Principal Secretaries of all departments among others.
During the discussion, the focus remained on how to minimize unemployment, generate employment, maximize the farmers’ income through fisheries, animal husbandry, growing forest areas, expansion of means of irrigation and contingency plan for probable disasters.
In the second sitting, road, rail, airways and water-routes for expansion and means for transport safety were discussed. It also focussed on trafficking, distress migration, Integrated Action Plan for extremism affected areas and Preventive Action Plan for vulnerable areas, identification and mining of new minerals and boosting up of the revenue.
In the primary meeting to make a work-plan, Principal Secretaries and Secretaries were requested to prepare people centric outcome based work-plans. Different activities should be mapped to achieve the outcome. At the same time, three years target should be fixed, the modus operandi of implementation should be outlined, the obstacle underlined and their remedy should be focused.
The discussions will also continue on 4th March.