B.B. Mohanty, Additional Chief Secretary, (Development) held a meeting today to discuss issues like proper implementation of welfare projects launched for the tribal and to ensure that tribals are benfitted by it at the Seminar Hall of Divisional Commisoner Office. He appreciated the rapid implementation of Flagship programs in the division.

He said, “It is the prime need of the hour to execute various schemes being launched for the upliftment of SCs and STs to the individuals belonging from the same and who need it.” Moreover, he also took report about the progress of action of different announcements done by Chief Minister in Budget for various departments and the strategies adopted to bring those plans to action. He also assessed the development report of last year and application of current financial year’s provisions.

The focus of the assessment was on the ongoing growth and activities of major schemes including Chief Minister Food Security Scheme, Women and Child Protection Scheme, Chief Minister BPL Rural Housing Scheme, Affordable Housing Scheme, Chief Minister Free Medicine Distribution Scheme and the guarantee to provide Common Mass Service Law.

Mohanty also examined issues such as Allotment of Forest Land, Child-Marriage, Irrigation and Water Holdings and Buying Wheat on Minimum Support Price. Dr. Subodh Agrawal, Divisional Commisoner; Hemant Kumar Ghera, District Collector, Udaipur and Poonam, District Collector, Dungarpur were present in the assessment meeting.

He asked related departments to present a report of areas of Mining and Forest region falling under Illegal Mining within a month. He also instructed SC/ST Development Division to implement allotted budget timely. On the issue of Child Marriage he asked Control Room to develop technology to get information of such acts on mobiles.