HYDERABAD: DDOs asked to submit council uplift schemes
Bureau Report
HYDERABAD, March 9: The DCO has directed deputy district officers of nation building departments to collect development schemes up to Rs1.3 million from union council Nazims and submit the same in a week so that they could be approved by councils concerned.
Presiding over a meeting that discussed development work in Hala and Matiari talukas at the Shahbaz Hall here on Monday, DCO Mohammad Hussain Syed said the government was considering to increase funds of taluka municipal administrations to solve problems of the people at grass-roots level.
He said union council Nazims were the backbone of the devolution system and asked nation building departments' officers to maintain close coordination with them.
The DCO said 14 development schemes at the cost of Rs32.4526 million had been undertaken in Matiari and 16 Rs34.6759 million schemes in Hala. He said the work progress in both talukas was 66 and 63 per cent respectively.
He said the delay in the release of development funds had created some difficulties for executing agencies but hopefully schemes would be completed by the end of the financial year.
He said Rs80 million had been earmarked for maintenance and repair schemes but the district government had received partial fund. He said if the remaining amount was provided in time many other development schemes would also be completed, he added.
Mr Syed observed that close coordination among nation building departments, elected representatives and NGOs involved in development activities was essential to avoid duplication in uplift works.
Responding to a question, he said a scheme of reconstruction of the old National Highway, Hala, had been approved and work on it would be started soon. Answering another question, he said schemes under the first phase of the Education Sector Reform would be completed by the end of the financial year, adding that development schemes had already been prepared for the next phase.
Referring to a demand for garbage-lifting mechanism, the DCO informed the meeting that the task of solid waste management was being included in the upliftment plan of Hyderabad under the president's package.
He said matters pertaining to offices of union council Nazimswould be addressed from the transaction fund and hoped that it would be made available to the district government by the end of next month.
Mr Syed said funds of school management committees had been released to the education department which would be distributed at Rs167 per student to schools having enrolment from class-I to VIII.
The DCO also directed the education works department to ensure provision of drinking water and lavatory facilities in schools on priority basis. He also ordered to stop the shifting of a girls' primary school scheme from Bhitshah.
He asked the EDO, health, for providing medical staff at the Basic Health Unit, Khanote, Hala. Matiari Taluka Nazim Syed Soodhal Shah, EDO, works and communication, Habibur Rehman Memon, executive engineer, education works, public health engineering and taluka municipal officers attended the meeting.
