The State Government had allocated Rs.2 crores to the district for implementing various development works with public participation under special self-sufficiency scheme this year, according to Collector N. Venkatachalam.

He was presiding over a special meeting with town panchayat officials on the utilisation of MP and MLA constituency development funds at Collectorate near here on Tuesday.

The panchayat administration could take up projects like drinking water schemes, road works, streetlights and other basic amenities within town panchayat under this scheme.

The panchayat should make all efforts to replace tubelights and sodium vapour lights with CFL bulbs to cut EB bill. Replacement expenses could be taken up with this fund.

They could use also this fund to install machines for drinking water schemes.Moreover, road to burial ground, and laying rural road could also be executed with this fund.

He appealed to town panchayat officials to prepare development projects quickly and avail the funds.They should undertake the works immediately and execute them with high quality within the scheduled time, he advised. In the last financial year, the district administration had taken up 418 works at an estimated cost of Rs.13.94 crore and 150 works were completed.

Similarly, 248 works were taken up under MP constituency development fund at an estimated cost of Rs.15.37 crore of which 83 works were over.Under backward area grant scheme, 1,040 works had been taken up and 455 works were finished, he added.Town panchayat officials and other line department officials took part.