Odisha: Day 2 of IAS conference in Bhubaneswar, Let there be race among districts to achieve goals: CM Naveen Patnaik
Ahead of the budget session, Odisha Government will host IAS officer’s conference February 14 and 15. The CM while addressing the meet yesterday had said that, there should be a healthy competition among districts for the realization of goals, and set benchmarks for others.
A detailed presentation and deliberations on 17 emerging subjects and transformative initiatives adopted by the government will be discussed at the conference. The main objective is to ensure that all the welfare schemes and other facilities reach the citizens.
Stating that Odisha has been at the forefront for its transformation plans, Naveen said the 5T initiative and Mo Sarkar – the twin feedback-based governance model – have enhanced people’s outreach.
He said that farm sector has the potential to revitalise the rural economy and asked the administrations to continue to excel in this sector. “We should focus more on farm mechanisation, crop diversification, horticulture and floriculture, dairy development and fisheries. Our ‘Millet Mission’ has now been taken up nationally to improve nutrition,” he said.
The chief minister said Odisha is now a food surplus state contributing to national public distribution system. He highlighted the fact that agriculture and allied sectors provide maximum employment to people in rural areas.
Naveen said that women empowerment is at the core of all initiatives and the government intends to transform the Mission Shakti groups to small and medium enterprises. The government is providing interest free loan up to `5 lakh so that they can convert their units to flourishing enterprises. A target has been fixed to provide `50,000 crore to Mission Shakti groups in next five years.
Besides, the state government has set a target to provide Rs 50,000 crore to the Mission Shakti groups in next five years. So, he directed the collectors to provide all possible support to Mission Shakti groups in realisation of this objective.
Appreciating the Mission Shakti industrial park conceived and implemented by the Koraput administration, the Chief Minister said that this initiative will be adopted by the entire state.
The collectors were further directed to give special attention to other flagship programmes of the Odisha government like Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana, school transformation, tourism promotion, sports, etc.
Hoping that this interaction will reset and re-invigorate the state’s efforts to maximise visibility to transformative initiatives, Patnaik told the collectors, “Let’s work together towards a new Odisha, an empowered Odisha.”
