Agartala:Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar held a high level meeting on Wednesday to review the prospective visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the state at the end of the month, officials said here on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to inaugurate the second unit of the 726 MW gas based thermal power project at Palatana in Gomati district during his four days Northeast visit scheduled on Nov 29 next.
Officials stated that the Chief Minister’s meeting was attended by all top bureaucrats of both civil and police administration and his cabinet colleagues to finalise the program venue and other related issues and decided that Chief Minister Manik Sarkar himself is going to visit Palatana soon oversee the preparation.
“ONGC Tripura Power Company, the main stakeholder of Palatana project has invited Prime Minister to inaugurate 363 MW capacity second unit during his upcoming Northeast visit. Though the exact date of Modi’s visit is not yet finalised, admini-stration is proceeding to host the event on Nov 30 next,” said officials.
According to report, upon arrival on Nov 29 next Modi has scheduled to hold meeting with Director General of Police (DGPs) and Inspector General of Police (IGPs) besides, interaction with the Chief Ministers of eight Northeastern states. On the next day, he has a schedule to inaugurate Manipur Sangai festival at Imphal and Tripura government is trying to fix up Prime Minister’s visit on the day in Udaipur.
On Dec 1 next he has a schedule to inaugurate Hornbill festival at Kohima and followed by visiting Arunachal Pradesh and he is programmed to leave for Delhi on Dec 2 next. However, officials added that the administration has not yet finalised the venue of Modi’s program at Palatana because there is no such big space available, which can accommodate more than 5000 people.
Left front government in Tripura is attempted to please Mr Modi during his state visit, as allegation of corruptions, mal adminis-tration, misuse of centrally sponsored fund, reduction of MGNREGA scheme to 15 rural development blocks out of 68 and exerting pressure on the states to increase internal revenue put Manik Sarkar govern-ment in serious trouble.
Narendra Modi’s development policy is not suitable for leftist rule lone state Tripura, as the new government policy is not funding the state for encouraging the habit of pushing aids to the states rather it wanted balance growth of infrastructure through direct monitoring of central ministries, said a senior officer of the state administration.
He added, “Uncon-trolled and on demand funding to the state like Tripura during UPA regime indulged massive cor-ruption even at the village level.
Funding without assessing the absorption capacity of the small state previous government pump a huge amount of fund to Tripura which was ultimately diverted to party fund of CPI-M through a section of corrupt officials.”(UNI)
