Implement projects in shortest possible time: Naveen Patnaik to collectors
To revitalise the rural economy of Odisha, where more than 80% people depend on agriculture and allied sectors, Patnaik asked officers to focus more on farm mechanisation, crop diversification, horticulture and floriculture, dairy development and fisheries.
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Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik during the inauguration and laying foundation stone of several developmental projects, in Keonjhar district, Monday, Feb. 13, 2023. (PTI) Asking district collectors to implement development projects in the “shortest possible time”, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Tuesday said the districts must compete with one another for “realisation of goals” and to set “benchmark for others”.
Inaugurating the two-day IAS officers’ conference held after a gap of two years, Patnaik said Odisha is at the forefront of many other states with its transformative initiatives.
“Sports, healthcare, school transformation, women empowerment, skill development, crop production and Covid management are some of the sectors that attract special mention,” he said.
Hailing his government’s initiative such as 5Ts — team work, technology, transparency and time for transformation — and ‘Mo Sarkar’ (the feedback-based governance model), which was launched after the BJD returned to power for the fifth conservative time in 2019, the CM said said these initiatives have enhanced government’s outreach programmes.
Patnaik asked collectors and senior officers to reach out to more people, find out issues of concern and use technology to sort them out in a faster and simple, hassle-free manner.
To revitalise the rural economy of Odisha, where more than 80% people depend on agriculture and allied sectors, Patnaik asked officers to focus more on farm mechanisation, crop diversification, horticulture and floriculture, dairy development and fisheries.
“Our ‘Millet Mission’ has now been taken up nationally. We need to continue to excel in agriculture and allied sectors as it provides maximum employment to people in the rural areas,” the CM said.
Stating that women empowerment is at the core of all the initiatives, Patnaik said his government intends to transform the Mission Shakti groups into “small and medium enterprises” by providing interest-free loans. “We have a target to provide Rs 50,000 crore to our Mission Shakti Groups in the next five years,” said Patnaik.
Under Mission Shakti, launched in 2001, the state government has organised 70 lakh rural women under six lakh self-help groups.
The CM also sought special attention from collectors for effective implementation of his government’s flagship programmes such as Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana, school transformation, tourism promotion, startup promotion and sports infrastructure development.
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