Steps should be taken to expand employment works in villages in view of El Nino impact
Personal toilets, Indiramma houses sanction process should be completed expeditiously: District Collector B. Satyaprasad
Jagtial: District Collector B. Satyaprasad held a review meeting with concerned department officials on Friday in the conference hall of the Collectorate on progress of VB-GRAM, employment guarantee works, construction of Individual Household Latrines (IHHL), drinking water supply, Indiramma houses construction and water conservation works in the district and issued several key directions.
In this meeting District Collector B. Satyaprasad speaking, said
In view of the El Nino impact and upcoming weather conditions, he suggested increasing creation of employment guarantee works in rural areas. Stating that currently employment is being provided to 60 persons on daily average, he directed to take steps to provide works to an average of 45 labourers in every village and to continue that number consistently. He suggested to take up community works like desilting of canals extensively and increase the shelf of works to 200%. Since out of the target of three lakhs fixed for September, progress of two lakhs has been achieved so far, he said officials should focus specially to complete the remaining target.
Farm ponds construction should be expedited
Officials explained that regarding farm ponds construction in the district, against a target of 1,250, 1,256 were sanctioned and so far 828 works have been completed. The Collector directed to formulate an action plan to take up sanction and construction process of remaining works in coordination and complete the target in the next two months.
Priority should be given to water conservation works
He suggested expediting construction of magic soak pits, community soak pits, drain-end soak pits that help in rainwater conservation and groundwater recharge in rural areas. He directed to complete the sanction process related to these works by Monday and to take steps to complete magic soak pit works by October 31. He made it clear that MPDOs should take full responsibility in achieving the set targets.
Regarding borewell recharge constructions, officials informed that in the district against a target of 177, 118 works have been sanctioned. Reviewing progress of remaining works, he suggested taking necessary measures for protection of drinking water sources.
Personal toilet sanctions should be completed immediately
He directed DRDA and Housing officials to immediately complete remaining 918 sanctions under Individual Household Latrines (IHHL) construction in coordination. He suggested to see that there is no delay in construction of toilets for eligible beneficiaries to improve sanitation in villages.
Steps without delay in Indiramma houses construction
Reviewing the progress of first phase of Indiramma houses construction, the Collector informed that regarding total target of 11,654 houses, proceedings have been issued for 10,901 houses. He directed officials to immediately complete sanction process of remaining 860 houses in first phase. He suggested field level monitoring to be taken up so that construction works of already sanctioned houses move forward quickly.
He said proposals related to total 6,725 houses including 4,953 new houses and 1,772 roof replacement works in second phase should be examined. He suggested taking up process of issuing sanction orders as per rules after proposals of concerned MLAs and verification by Gazetted officers.
District Collector B. Satyaprasad directed officials of all departments to work in coordination to achieve targets fixed in aspects like employment creation for people, rural infrastructure development, water conservation, sanitation and housing for poor within deadline.
Zilla Parishad CEO Gautam Reddy, DRDO Raghuvaran, Deputy CEO P. Naresh, RWS EE, Housing PD, Trainee Deputy Collector Kannam Harini, MPDOs, MPOs, RWS AEs, concerned department officials and others participated in this meeting.
