By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: Chief Secretary Asit Tripathy on Monday reviewed projects under the Odisha Mineral Bearing Areas Development Corporation (OMBADC) and directed the concerned administrative departments to ensure quality monitoring of the projects through third party supervision.Target was set to complete infrastructure building civil work projects for by first quarter of 2021.
Additional Chief Secretary Health and Family Welfare PK Mohapatra appraised, “Five categories of projects like up-gradation of health infrastructure estimated around Rs 971.83 cr, improving access to health services estimated around Rs 95.31 cr, improvement in emergency care services estimated around Rs 19.06 cr, telemedicine care project in health institutions estimated around Rs 4.75 cr, and, special public health programmes estimated around Rs 207.90 cr” are being implemented in the OMBADC districts like Keonjhar, Sundargarh, Mayurbhanj and Jajpur.
Apart from that a 150-bed maternal and child care hospital building in Jajpur have also been taken up.Secretary Skill Development and Technical Education Sanjay Kumar Singh said, “The projects for modernisation of Government ITIs and engineering schools along with skill development of tribal youths have been undertaken under OMBADC funding.”