By Our Staff Reporter
Dehradun, 4 Jan: Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami held a review meeting of the State Planning Department at the Secretariat, here, today. He directed the departments and various cells to work in mutual coordination with each other. He ordered that the State Institute Empowering and Transforming Uttarakhand (SETU) established recently to achieve development related goals and their effective monitoring should be made more effective and empowered so that a better planning system, effective policy making and innovations can be encouraged in the state. The CM said that all the schemes of the government should be effectively reviewed by the planning department. He also observed that more dedicated efforts need to be made to double the state’s economy in the next 5 years. Efforts should be made to create a Strong Uttarakhand and to regularly monitor the sustainable development goals.
It may be recalled that Dhami had earlier asked all the departments to work on one scheme, each, which would prove to be a game changer in the development of the state. In this regard, he instructed the Planning Department to submit a report with complete details of the efforts made by the departments regarding this. He also instructed more effective implementation of innovative works run by NITI Aayog in the state. The Chief Minister also gave instructions for regular monitoring of programmes and schemes run in 6 aspirational districts selected at NITI Aayog level and 9 aspirational districts selected at state level on health and nutrition, education, agriculture and water resources, financial inclusion and skill development and basic facilities. Dhami also directed them to regularly test the quality of the material being used in various projects being run in the state, so that the schemes are completed on time and without any compromise with regard to the quality of the works. In the meeting, the CM also sought details regarding the progress related to “Parivar Pehchan Patra Uttarakhand/Hamar Kutumb” schemes.
Deputy Chairman, Infrastructure Monitoring Committee, Vishwas Dawar, Additional Chief Secretary Radha Raturi, Secretary R Meenakshi Sundaram, Director General, Industries, Rohit Meena, Manoj Pant from Planning Department and other senior officials were present at the meeting.
