Errabelli Reviews Rural Development Works

Telangana Panchayat Raj and Rural Development Minister Errabelli Dayakar Rao today instructed the concerned officials to ensure that the remaining works of ongoing rural development projects across the state's rural pockets be completed on a war-footing.

Speaking at a high-level review meeting at his Hyderabad residence, the minister informed the officials that the BJP-led Centre had allotted Rs 217 crore through the 15th Finance Commission for village development works to Telangana, and that they would now need to actively coordinate with each other as well as other relevant government departments to take up works for infrastructure development, reforestation, and sanitation-related improvements, in order to properly utilise the funds. He also asked the Sarpanches and village secretaries to protect the saplings planted during the state-run Haritha Haram programs and to complete all the pending cemetery construction works.

Reviewing the PMRGY program and other developmental works in the state's villages, Rao instructed the officials to make sure that all the workers engaged through the employment scheme followed Covid-19 safety protocols, like wearing masks and following social distancing rules, while working.

The minister then highlighted the urgent need to bolster the rural healthcare sector, and to increase the Covid-19 treatment facilities across rural Telangana in the face of the current second wave. He told the officials to increase the provision of medical oxygen, beds, injections and health staff in all the village healthcare centres and to take steps to provide better treatment services to the people suffering from Covid-19.