The Hindu 08.08.2012
Rs.2 crore allocated to Dindigul district: Collector
Under special self-sufficiency scheme this year
The Hindu 08.08.2012
Under special self-sufficiency scheme this year
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.