With two quarters of the current financial year over, Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung on Tuesday conducted a detailed and comprehensive review of various schemes and projects announced in the Delhi Budget.
The meeting was attended by the Chief Secretary, Principal Secretaries, and secretaries of departments, including Health and Family Welfare, Home, Education, Social Welfare, and Women and Child Development, Food and Civil Supplies, Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board, Urban Development, Transport, Delhi Jal Board, Public Works Department, and the Power Department.
“The L-G fixed deadlines for several ongoing and upcoming projects. The schemes and projects related to power and water reforms were taken up on a priority basis. The proposal for power reforms is being implemented by the Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. The L-G directed the Chief Secretary to ensure that the six-month timeline is strictly adhered to,” an official said.
“For water reforms, the Delhi government is pursuing the matter with the Ministry of Water Resources. The L-G directed the Chief Secretary and the CEO (DJB) to appoint a nodal officer from the DJB to pursue the matter .”
Health Department officialsinformed the L-G that a one-stop centre for crisis management and rehabilitation of victims of sexual assault has been started at Sanjay Gandhi Hospital and Deen Dayal Upadhayay Hospital. “One-stop centres will also be started at Guru Tegh Bahadur and Lok Nayak Hospital by November 2014. Seven more such centres are being finalised,” another official said.
Directing the department heads to monitor the progress regularly, the L-G said, “The secretaries must take ownership for each scheme and project.”
