GUWAHATI: "Ensure the wellbeing of the poor rural people by performing your duty maintaining transparency, punctuality and dedication."-said Panchayat and Rural Development (P&RD) minister Naba Kr Doley addressing the district field officials of Barpeta in a review meeting held at the Conference Hall of Deputy Commissioner, Barpeta on Tuesday. He also said that the officials of the P&RD are fortunate enough that they have got the opportunity of serving for the poor people. Therefore, they should take this opportunity with keenness. He also urged that all the P&RD officials from top to bottom should work as a team and try to contribute for ensuring the socio-economic progress of the state in this crisis situation of COVID-19 pandemic and reasserts that negligence and misappropriation in this connection will not be tolerated.
It may be mentioned here that as per the notification of Govt of India the implementation of rural development schemes are being resumed in Assam too from 20th April last during lock down for providing assistance to the economically and socially vulnerable sections of rural people.
Minister P&RD is personally monitoring the process of implementation of all the schemes under P & RD to ensure successful implementation of these so that the poor people may be helped in true sense. As such he has been visiting districts and reviewing the implementation process at grass root level.
As a part of it after reviewing in Lakhimpur, Dhemaji, Majuli and Nagaon districts, minister Doley visited Barpeta yesterday with a group of senior officials of P&RD headed by Principal Secretary Dr. J B Ekka and Commissioner Hemen Das and reviewed the progress of various schemes like MGNREGA, PMAY-G, NSAP, 14th Finance Commission and DAY NRLM etc. in presence DC, Barpeta Munindra Sharma and field officials of Barpeta.