Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Feb 16: Secretary, Department of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Sheetal Nanda, today conducted an exhaustive day long tour of Udhampur to take stock of ongoing development works being executed in RDD sector in the district.
Deputy Commissioner, Udhampur, Dr Piyush Singla, Director, Rural Development Department, Jammu Sudershan Kumar, Additional Secretary, MGNREGA, Pran Singh, Joint Director, Subash Chander, ACD, Mushtaq Choudhary, Executive Engineer REW, Bashir Sheikh and other officers of the department accompanied the Secretary.
During the tour, Secretary laid foundation stone for construction of Panchayat Ghar at Tikri-B in presence of Block Development Council Chairman, Nisha Sharma and District Development Council Chairman, Ashu Sharma.
Enroute, Secretary inspected various ongoing development works being executed under different schemes of RDD. She directed the Block Development Officers to expedite the pace of works ensuring timeline completion.
Later, Secretary chaired a meeting of officers and field functionaries of the department to review block wise progress on various ongoing development works, payments made to labourers and other progress indicators under MGNREGA, PMAYG besides expenditure incurred under other schemes of RDD sector.
Earlier, Secretary launched a geo tagged map based assets of IWMP works of the district.
Secretary had a detailed block wise review of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), budget performance, payments of wages, details of Aadhar seeding (ABP conversion), details of incomplete and ongoing works for 2018-19 and 2019-20, person days generated during 2019-20, status of works being executed under 14th FC, Labour budget for 2020-21 and its uploading status, status of liabilities under MGNREGA, issuance of new job cards, geo tagging of MGNREGA phase-1and II performance.
She expressed dismay over slow pace of progress on several vital works and issued strict instructions to BDOs to expedite the ongoing development works for timely completion. She exhorted upon the officers to maintain transparency and accountability in execution of all works being executed in RDD sector in the district.
Secretary asked the BDOs to complete all sanctioned houses within this financial year besides mobilizing their men and machinery for effective implementation of all schemes and coverage of 100 per cent eligible beneficiaries. She said that the main objective of conducting this visit was to review progress on implementation of developmental schemes on ground.
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