Rayagada Collector Mahajan resumes review of schemes at village level
Badal Tah,Rayagada, July 23: After the code of conduct for the past general was lifted, Rayagada Collector Sri Manoj Satyawan Mahajan, IAS, was swift in restoring the process of grievance redressal mechanisms at district and block headquarters. Several community and individual grievances were addressed at the spot and the many were referred to the concerned departments with strict direction by Mahajan for early resolution of people’s issues.
Recently, during a joint grievance hearing alongwith SP Harisha B C, Sub-Collector Gunupur & a gamut of other district level officials at Padmapur Block headquarters, Mahajan relentlessly heard 48 grievances out of which 39 were individual and 9 were community based. He sanctioned Rs.55000.00 to four extremely needy persons from Chief Minister’s relief fund.
After the hearing at block headquarters, Mahajan has gone a step ahead in reviewing several flagship programmes in a village named Khilapadara under Khilapadar GP. On the spot, he distributed a number of record of land rights to beneficiaries, pensions to senior citizens and divyangs, soil cards to farmers, power tillers to women members of Mission Shakti. Not only he inaugurated several stalls on Swachha Bharat Mission, Mission Shakti, Agricultural initiatives, Health programmes, Animal Husbandry & Fishery activities at Kalyan Mandap but also rendered suggestions to improve the programmes. “Review of govt schemes in a village after the hearing at block headquarters will certainly alert & encourage the grassroot workers. It will augment the trickle-down effect of almost all the govt programmes. This move of dovetailing grievance redressal with review by Mahajan must sustain in future during his ensuing hearings in other blocks of the district ”, said Rabindra Patakhandal, an RTI activist, who hails from Padmapur block.
Mahajan has religiously followed the footsteps of People’s CM Mohan Majhi, who has sensitively emphasized hearing the grievances of poor and troubled citizens of Odisha. Mahajan has instructed his colleagues to be alert to any untoward disasters due to ongoing incessant rains and store dry foods and other relief materials. He has directed the concerned govt staff to look into the issues of the roads, drainage system and irrigation structures, which have the potential to be affected. With his direction, the municipal authorities have started dismantling old clogged drains at Gundicha Chowk and other places within the vicinity of Rayagada municipality.
Mahajan alongwith Harisha has paid a visit to the last villages of Niyamagiri hills namely Dangamati & Lakhpadara and interacted with the tribal leaders belonging to Primarily Vulnerable Tribal Group(PVTG) regarding their pressing needs and prospects. Recently the community members from this PVTG have met Mahajan in his chamber at Rayagada and discussed about several development deficits in their villages. Interestingly enough, all of them returned with a great sense of satisfaction after being empathetically heard & assured by him.
“He is an approachable person and responsive. Though the scorecard of Mahajan is soaring high as far as development of the district is concerned, there are still several challenges he and his subordinates need to take up. Making judicious use of 506 acres of land restored from Jeypore Sugar Company, initiating an outdoor stadium near GIACR, revamping the cold storage near TDCC & Panthika near Hanuman Temple, making the planetarium & science park function, initiating a process of establishing medical college even through a PPP mode, exploring an airport through Udan scheme, instituting barrages & check dams for irrigation, accelerating bypass road, establishing a District Disability Rehabilitation Centre & a smart bus stand, management & development of religious places like Majhighariani Temple, Jagannath Temple & Balunkeswar Temple in Rayagada Town, using Eco-tourism potential of the district, etc are some of the initiatives he may embark upon. There is a new Govt and we all have aspirations. Mahajan and his team are the face of the Govt. We all must complement his efforts in the context of the changed scenario”, said Shyam Kumar Das, Ex-Student Union President of Rayagada Autonomous College & State General Secretary(Paschim Prant) of SAKSHAM working for the empowerment of Divyangs.
