Adilabad: District Collector Sikta Patnaik instructed officials concerned to complete the works relating to Palle Pragathi, an innovative scheme aimed at empowerment of rural civic bodies by this month end.
Speaking at a review meeting with mandal level officials over various initiatives taken up under the scheme here on Thursday, Sikta asked the officials of the Panchayat Raj Department to complete the works of Palle Prakruthi Vanams within a week, besides expediting works of crematoriums. She asked them to take steps for manufacturing vermicompost fertilizer under the solid waste management plan. She underlined the need to ensure tidy environs in rural parts.
The IAS officer further instructed the authorities to enhance daily wagers when implementing National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and to ground works of platforms. She stated that 608 platforms were completed as against the 1,936 platforms grounded so far. She also asked engineering officials to upload information relating to expenditures done in this fiscal.
Additional Collector M David, who was present at the meeting, told the officials to take up special sanitation drives and instructed them to plant saplings by adopting the Miyawaki method on either side of roads. He asked them to provide furniture needed to Raithu Vedika buildings and to ensure plantation of six saplings in every house.
Zilla Parishad chief executive officer Kishan, District Panchayat Officer Srinivas, In-charge DRDO Ravinder Rathod, Panchayat Raj executive engineer Mahavir and several mandal level officials were present.
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