Concrete works of permanent nature for public use should be done: Chief Minister Dr. Yadav

Bhopal: Chief Minister Dr. Mohan Yadav has said that the fund earned under the District Mineral Foundation is a reserve fund. Only concrete works of permanent nature should be done from this fund in the mining affected areas of the districts for public interest and use by all. The works should be such that maximum people get the benefit. From this (DMF) item, works of permanent category should be done as per the requirement in the settlement areas of Special Backward and Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG) including school building, hospital, community building, dispensary building, veterinary hospital/dispensary, playground. He said that works of temporary nature and repair etc. should be done from the departmental budget of the concerned departments. Chief Minister Dr. Yadav was directing the officials in a meeting held in the ministry for approval of development works that can be done under Part-B of the District Mineral Foundation.

In the meeting, Chief Minister Dr. Yadav gave in-principle approval to various development works to be done at a cost of Rs 502 crore from the amount received from the District Mineral Foundation in the mining areas of the state. With this decision, various types of development and upgradation works can be done in the mining affected areas. After getting the in-principle approval, now various categories of development works will be done by the District Mineral Foundation in the districts of Dindori, Shahdol, Anuppur, Barwani, Damoh, Chhindwara, Seoni, Alirajpur, Shivpuri, Sagar, Rewa, Betul etc. of the state. These include construction of Ayurvedic College in Dindori district, construction of Barrage/Anicut on Son River in Shahdol district, construction of 100-bed infrastructure in the hospital of Kotma in Anuppur district. Apart from this, the construction of access road from the foothills of Bhiltdev Temple Nagalwadi to the temple in Barwani district will also be done from DMF funds. Chief Minister Dr. Yadav said that the works which can be completed as soon as possible should be done first. Works like construction of tanks for drinking water arrangements in schools as per the requirement, construction of boundary wall should be done immediately, so that the students get the benefit of them soon. Chief Secretary Anurag Jain, Additional Chief Secretary (Chief Minister’s Office) Dr. Rajesh Rajoura, Principal Secretary Finance Manish Rastogi, Principal Secretary Mineral Resources Umakant Umrao and Director Administration and Mining Frank Noble.A. along with other departmental officers were present in the meeting. Principal Secretary Mineral Resources Umrao told in the meeting that currently Rs 1681 crore is available in District Mineral Establishment Fund (Part-B). All categories of works, big and small, can be done with this amount. More than Rs 1008.6 crore can be spent by the government under high priority area (60 percent) from this amount. In the high priority area, works related to education, drinking water supply, environmental protection and pollution control measures, health care, sanitation improvement, skill development, elderly and disabled welfare and women and child welfare have been specially identified. Works like irrigation facility, physical infrastructure and energy and watershed development are done in other priority areas (40 percent). For this area also, an amount of more than Rs 672.4 crore can be spent from DMF (accumulated fund). A total of 1015 works have been approved by the nodal department, out of which 317 works are of high priority. These works will be completed first. He said that after approval, all development works will be started soon from DMF fund.

Principal Secretary Umrao gave detailed information to Chief Minister Dr. Yadav about the new guideline of Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojana (PMKKKY) in the meeting. He said that in this scheme, the Central Government has made a provision that the area of ​​15 km radius from the main mineral mine or group of mines will be a direct mining affected area and where the local population is adversely affected due to economic, social and environmental consequences due to mining related process, the area of ​​25 km from the main mine or mines located in the district will be an indirect mining affected area. Apart from this, a provision has been made to spend 70 percent of the amount of DMF (accumulated fund) in high priority areas. The central government has also added housing, agriculture and animal husbandry in this sector. Similarly, 30 percent of the DMF (consolidated fund) amount has been asked to be spent in other priority sectors. Other measures to enhance the quality of environment in mining districts have also been added in this sector.