Our Correspondent
Imphal,May 3(EMN):The State government decided to take up 57 kinds of works under various sectors of Health & Family Welfare, Information Technology, Science & Technology, Agriculture, Horticulture, Transport, Public Works Department,Home, Art and Culture, Public Health Engineering Department, Finance Department, Power, Department of Information and Public Relations, Tourism,Rural development and Panchayati Raj, Education, Planning, Social Welfare,MAHUD, Minorities and Backward Classes, and Department of Personnel, for completion in 100 days.
Chief Minister N Biren Singh chaired cabinet meeting approved the list of works of the various departments to be completed in 100 days, on Wednesday.Besides few important works under Home, DP, MAHUD, Social Welfare and Labour are opening of Cyber Crime Police Station and Community Policing System, Discontinuation of interview in Direct recruitment of Grade-III and IV posts, Extension of PMAY (Urban) to Greater Imphal, Opening of accounts for all old aged persons beneficiaries and door step delivery of pension, Welfare benefit to 6000 building and construction workers, Action plan for ensuring one job opportunity to every household.
Few important works under MOBC, SCERT, Health and Family Welfare, IT,Science and technology and Agriculture are Construction of 46 classrooms and14 hostels with 645 beds, Start of DIET Imphal East, Rationalisation of transfer and posting of health staff especially in hill areas and putting in place a policy for transfer and posting, Special immunisation drive for full immunisation of about 8000 children of 0-2 years in Ukhrul, Tamenglong, Churachandpur and Chandel districts, Connecting all district headquarters through wireless, connecting government offices within district headquarters under SWAN, Setting up 50 seated Digital Planetarium at Manipur Science Centre, and preparation of strategy for doubling farmers’ income by 2020. Few important works under Transport, Education, Rural Development, PWD and DIPR are Revival of Manipur State Transport and operationalisation of ISTB at Dewlaland, Regulation of private schools and private tuition centres, Starting vocational courses in 40 colleges, Establishment of video conferencing facilities between Chief Minister/ Education Minister/ Director Education(U) and government colleges, E-payment system under MGNERGS in all 161 Panchayats, Commissioning of office Complex of all four Zila Parishads of the State, Mending of pot holes in all District Headquarters and roads within, Restoration of damaged stretches of Mao-Imphal National Highways and Launching of Manipur State Journalists Welfare Fund.Important works under Horticulture, Art and Culture, Power, Finance, Planning,PHED and Tourism are Introduction of organic farming to 5000 farmers, support of musical instrument and teaching of music to school children, Electrification of 77 census villages in Chandel, Churachandpur, Senapati, Ukhrul and Tamenglong, Direct Benefit Transfer for all State Funded Schemes, Launching of website for monitoring of development activities for effective and efficient utilisation of fund, preparation of Vision 2032 for the State of Manipur, Action plan for giving piped drinking water to every household , organisation of Shirui Festivaland Development of Andro Tourist Park.It may be mentioned that series of consultations with various line departments were undertaken by the Government in the past few days to facilitate the identification of works. Taking into account the availability of funds, adequate time for completion of works, nature of works and impact of works; 57 works were shortlisted in the first instance.
To ensure timely completion of those identified works in 100 days; the overall progress of works will be monitored by the Chief Minister’s office.
