Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has directed the officers of department to expedite the process of making all the village Panchayats of Uttarakhand Open Defecation Free (ODF) plus. An ODF plus village is the one which has either solid or liquid Waste Management systems to sustain its ODF status.
He also directed that installation of solar lights in villages should be encouraged and computerisation of remaining Village Panchayats should be done. The CM gave these orders while undertaking a review meeting of the Rural development and Panchayati Raj departments at the State secretariat on Thursday. The meeting was held to review the progress of these departments in achieving targets under Empowered Uttarakhand @25 mission.
The CM said that the utilisation certificates (UC) and pending processes of the schemes funded in 90: 10 ratio by Union Government and State Government respectively should be completed and sent to the central government. He sought details of the centrally sponsored schemes that are pending from 2020 and before it.
The CM told the officers of the rural development department to ensure better Marketing of the local products and said that a system of online marketing should also be followed. Arrangements of maintaining supply of the products in demand should also be made.