Friday, November 16, 2007

Manipur Chief Secy. summoned by PMO for key meeting

By : Thingbaijam Dhamen

IMPHAL, Nov 15: The Prime Minister’s Office, New Delhi has summoned the Manipur chief secretary to attend a meeting at the office and give a brief on the progress of implementation of various developmental schemes and projects and law and order situation in the state.

The meeting to be held on November 20 is considered to be an important one as the rebel MLAs of the state Congress have been campaigning for the ouster of chief minister O Ibobi Singh at the Centre, exposing his failure in maintaining law and order as well as absence of visible progress in the implementation of the developmental works under his leadership.

Meanwhile, a high level team from the Centre led by the cabinet secretary is scheduled to arrive in the state capital on November 29 to review among other things the law and order situation in the state.

Regarding his meeting with the officials of the PMO, the chief secretary Jarnail Singh has called a meeting with top officials of the state government to discuss important issues concerning the state, an official source said.

The meeting will apart from discussing the law and order will also discuss upgradation of the NH-39 to four-lane upto Imphal, maintenance of the NH-39 and handing over the job to Border Road Organization, timely completion of Jiribam-Tupul-Imphal railway line, Tipaimukh hydro electric project (1500 MW), Loktak down stream hydro-electric project (90 MW), augmentation of tankage capacity for POL production in Imphal, construction of FCI godown at district headqarters in hill areas, the source said.

Top officials like the DGP, principal secretaries of power, home and FCS, commissioners of works, transport, power, PWD, FCS and directors of FCS and transport have been asked to attend the meeting with the chief secretary tomorrow, the source added.

The officials were also asked today to bring the reports of status of the implementation of projects, brief accounts of problems encountered in the implementation of projects along with any other points concerning the subjects.

The source said that the concerned officials will not face any problem in providing the reports that the chief secretary wants as they had already been asked to prepare the same reports in the last week of October this year since the receipt of the intimation of the visit of a high level team led by the Union cabinet secretary.

During the three-day (from November 29 to December 1) visit of the high level team will also review the progress of implementation of flagship programme like the SSA, JNNURM, NHM, BRGF, NREGS, forest related issues and tribal welfare programmes, Bharat Nirman Programme consisiting of rurual housing, rural roads, drinking water supply, irrigation in rural areas, rural electrification, national highway.

Source said that the tentative programme of the visit of the team had already intimated to the state government in the last week of October this year and as per chief secretary’s advice identification of the works and projects which can be shown to the visiting team had already started.

All the concerned departments were also reportedly busy in preparing brief notes highlighting the status of implementation of the programmes, problems encountered in the implementation of the programmes which the chief secretary asked for tomorrow’s meeting at his office chamber.

With regard to the law and order situation of the state, various meetings were held to review the same during the last around one month since the spate of killings and attacks on the security forces as well as top officials by militants started.

Yesterday also the top brass of the home department reviewed the law and order situation. Another meeting with the chief minister also reviewed the progress of the plan expenditure and implementation of schemes and projects for the current fiscal year 2007-08.

Meanwhile, the state GAD has been asked to make necessary arrangements including transportation and accommodation for the visiting team. The GAD and home department has to coordinate the visit of the cabinet secretary and his team of secretaries, the source added.

Source: The Imphal Free Press

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