4630 platforms to be constructed in the first phase
Raipur, (the states. news) On
instructions of Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel’s instructions, platforms are
being constructed in all the paddy procurement centers of the state for saving
paddy from rain and for systematically conducting the paddy procurement work.
In the first phase, construction of 4649 platforms was sanctioned. Out of which
construction of 4630 platforms has been completed. Panchayat and Rural
Development Department has directed all the Collectors and District
Programme Coordinators to mark places for construction of platforms in paddy
procurement centers in the second phase.
It is noteworthy that CM Mr. Baghel recently chaired the state-level review
meeting of Chhattisgarh Rural Employment Guarantee Council and took the
policy-based decision to build minimum four platforms in each of the paddy
procurement centers in the state.
Panchayat and Rural Development Principal Secretary Gaurav Dwivedi has written
letter in the context to all the District Collectors and District Programme
Coordinators, and has given instructions to do physical inspection of platforms
and do quality evaluation of the construction work of the new platforms, so
that platform construction work for second phase can be sanctioned.
Mr. Dwivedi has directed the officials of the Department of Food and Civil
Supplies and Consumer Protection, Cooperatives and Panchayat and Rural
Development to work in coordination for identifying suitable sites for
construction of platforms to be built in the second phase. The Principal
Secretary informed in the letter that a Google spread sheet is being released
in the name of ‘Chabutra Face-2’ for reviewing the targets and for daily
updation of the progress of the state government’s priority project of platform
construction
