The District planning meeting was held under the Chairmanship of Sarada Prasad Nayak, Minister Housing and Urban Devlopment, at the Ashok Meheta conference hall, of collectorate here on Thursday.
Besides reviewing the progress financial and physical achievements made in the ongoing projects in the various departments, the meeting also discussed the steps to remove hurdles, if any, in implementing the backward region grant fund (BRGF) and Biju KBK plan.
It is pertinent to mention here that under the BRGF for the year 2010-11 a sum of 1504 lakhs would yet to be spent in the district. Some sanctioned projects with their amounts though have been approved could not have been taken up due to some technical reasons said Collector, Sibabrata Dash, he requested to confirmation of the proceedings of last district planning committee meeting held on 19-2-10. Also comprehensive district plan and revised projects for the 2011-12 discussed at the meeting.
IT,Fisheries, ARD,SC/ST development, Minister state (Ind), Ramesh Chandra Majhi, MP, Pradeep Majhi, MLAs, Manohar Randhari, Bhujabala Majhi, Municipal Chairman, Prahalad Tripathy, PDDRDA, Dhruba Ch. Panchbhaya, Dy.Dirictor, (Planning and Statistics) Nanda Kishor Munda, all district level officials, BDOs, chairman of Municipality and NAC present at the meeting.
