TURA: The National People’s Party (NPP) MP from Tura, Conrad K Sangma has said that there was scope for better implementation of Central government funded projects in the state.
He held review meeting of the District Development Coordination and Monitoring Committee (DISHA) at Chokpot in South Garo Hills on Monday to review the implementation of central projects during which he said that there was scope for better implementation of the central government projects after a thorough study of mandates of the projects.
Reviewing the central projects in South Garo Hills, the Tura MP took special interest in the implementation of projects under MGNREGA and PMGSY and held discussions on other schemes such as the Pradhan Mantri Ujjawal Yojana (distribution of LPG connections), National Rural Drinking Water Program and Digital India that provides internet access to the people.
The Tura MP also commended the Chokpot block for completing 68 people days of work and for helping self-help groups to start saving fifty rupees a day to build a corpus of Rs one lakh.
“Specialisation in plantations and value addition through food processing can be the next set of convergence that MGNREGS can look into,” said the Tura MP during his interaction with the block officials and the Village Employment Councils.
Later, during a public interaction he was informed that certain PMAY-G beneficiaries were yet to receive the grants for the year 2012-13 to which the MP assured to take up the matter at right earnest.