By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: Odisha Chief Secretary Pradeep Kumar Jena chaired the 25th Board of Directors Meeting of OMBADC here and has approved 54 developmental projects amounting to Rs.17318.05 crore during the financial year 2022-23.
G. Rajesh, CEO of OMBADC, Debidutta Biswal, PCCF & HoFF, Odisha, S K Lohani, Principal Secretary Panchayati Raj & Drinking Water, Subha Sarma, Secretary Women & Child Development and others were among those present.
The Board has approved 54 projects amounting to Rs. 17318.05 crore under different Board meetings since April 2019. The projects have been proposed by 18 line departments and most of the approved projects are under implementation.
The line departments have successfully utilized an amount of Rs. 6227.97 crore (68%) till date out of the total released fund of Rs. 9181.06 crore.
OMBADC has approved 30 mega piped water supply projects for four mining districts- Keonjhar, Sundargarh, Mayurbhanj and Jajpur and Pallahada block of Angul out of which two projects have been commissioned and stared supplying water to 123 villages.
Similarly, 690 single and multi-village schemes for 787 villages of Mayurbhanj and Drink from Tap (DFT) scheme for 14 ULBs have been initiated.
The total investment under the drinking water sector is Rs.8909 crore out of Rs.8008.25 crore was sanctioned to Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water Department. An amount of Rs.4674.89 has been released by OMBADC to the PR Department against an expenditure of 78% incurred by the Department.
As many as 1146 secondary schools have also been funded by OMBADC under the High School Transformation under 5T initiative. Till date, works are completed in 1088 schools out of which 1065 schools have been inaugurated. The 3rd phase project for 205 schools has also been approved by the Board today.
OMBADC is also supporting the upgradation of 16 Government ITIs and Polytechnics in the mining districts and developing them as Centre of Excellence.
Construction of 11 indoor stadiums for ULBs and NACs has been taken up with funding from the corporation and the work is expected to be completed by March 2023. The total allocation for the education sector is Rs. 3539.30 crore.
Under the health sector, OMBADC has allocated a total of Rs. 2942.91 crore for infra development in the district, block and sub block level health facilities, construction of 150 bedded MCH wing in the medical college at Jajpur, new infra projects for ICDS, construction of composite rehabilitation centers in mining districts etc.
The water conservation and rural connectivity sectors have got allocation of Rs. 700 crore each while more than Rs.500 crore allocated for the livelihood projects.Besides, Rs. 19.75 crore has been sanctioned for the environment protection and pollution control sector where eight pollution check equipment have been installed in excessively polluted areas of the mining districts.
In the FY 2021-22, a total of Rs. 2672.88 crore has been disbursed to line departments whereas in the FY 2022-23 till date, total funds released stands at Rs.2954.27 crore. Two new proposals related to High School Transformation for 205 schools with an estimated cost of Rs. 125.46 crore and supporting the Mukhyamantri Sampoorna Pushti Yojana (MMSPY) in 78 ICDS projects amounting to Rs. 589.46 crore also presented.
