1st distric in TN all the details are transparent
Coimbatore is the first district in the State to put all details of rural development works on the internet so that people could have all information, Collector Neeraj Mittal told a press conference here on Friday.The public can glean details of the works undertaken, their cost, their progress and the expected date of completion, etc. from www.coimbatore.tn.nic.in/ drda.html.Mr. Mittal said 15,651 works had been taken up by the District Rural Development Agency (DRDA) during the last financial year at a total outlay of about Rs. 92 crore. “As we have started quite late due to various reasons, only 9,800 works could be completed so far in total costing Rs. 46 crore.“However, we are not quite far and hope to finish all the works within six to eight weeks,” he said. So far 1,006 houses of the total 3,278 planned under the Indira Awaaz Yojana had been completed. And upgradation of all the 728 kutcha houses was also over. Besides, 3,069 of the total 3,271 works planned under the Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana had also been completed at a total cost of about Rs. 16 crore.
Under the Anaithu Grama Anna Marumalarchi Thittam, 1,343 of the total 3,580 works had been completed at about Rs five crore.For the current financial year, 12,053 works had been planned by the DRDA at a total cost of Rs. 80 crore. They included 2,295 works under the Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana, and 4,553 dwelling units under the Indira Awaaz Yojana. In addition, 1,012 kutcha houses would be upgraded.Chikungunya More than 4,000 works would be taken up at Rs 16 crore under the Anaiaithu Grama Anna Marumalarchi Thittam.
Following the meeting the Collector had with the district officials this week, he had decided to involve school children in combating chikungunya. “We propose to involve at least one child per school who would be educated regarding the disease and trained to kill the larva. That child in turn will teach other children in the school and thus we will have at least one soldier in each house”.
The Chief Education Officer and the District Educational Officers across the district were already on the job.Asked about the incidence of the disease in the district and the detection of anyone affected from the people commuting from the neighbouring Kerala, Mr .Mittal was emphatic that not even a single case had been spotted so far.Now that the district had not experienced rains, the Aedes aegypti mosquito responsible for the spread of the disease could not breed. “We are scanning the channels of entry into Coimbatore. So far we have been testing the serum at the King’s Institute, Chennai. Now we are trying to get the kit for the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital so that at least 100 specimens could be tested here”.
The Collector made it clear to all private hospitals in the district that they were all “duty bound” to inform the district administration if they were to come across any one affected by this disease. Though there was a rule that the Public Health authorities should be informed by the private hospitals if they were to come across any communicable diseases, “nobody does it. But now they should do it”.The district administration had appointed 10 mazdoors in each block to undertake health-related anti-larval measures.Besides, a number of fogging machines had been pressed into service. “Prevention is the ideal solution”.
