Bhubaneswar : The Board of Directors of Odisha Mineral Bearing Areas Development corporation (OMBADC ) at its Board of Directors meeting held under the Chairmanship of Chief Secretary S C Mahapatra in digital mode today approved projects worth Rs 640.65 crore for development of secondary schools, environmental monitoring and sports development in mineral bearing districts.
The meeting sanctioned projects worth Rs 533.40 crore for development of 889 secondary schools in the districts of Angul, Dhenkanal, Deogarh, Jajpur, Jharsuguda, Mayurbhaj and Sundargarh districts .
Sanctioning the projects the Chief Secretary directed officials to provide global level education and exposure to the students under secondary school development programme.
Mr Mahapatra said, ”such facilities should enable our children to compete with any one at national and global level”.
The proposal for development of multipurpose indoor stadiums to nurture and promote sports talents were sanctioned in the meeting for eleven ULBs in mining bearing districts at a cost of Rs.104.15 crore.
These included nine municipalities —Belpahar, Brajrajnagar, Anandpur, Barbil, Birmitrapur, Rajganjpur, Rourkela, Joda and Vyasnagar Municipality; and, two NACs —Champua and Udala.
The project on application of ICT and data science for development of the environmental information system in the mining areas of Odisha at an estimated cost of Rs 3.10 crore was also sanctioned in the meeting.
The project envisages development of a comprehensive data base on periodic environmental data collected from mines through different statutory returns, clearances and compliances.
