Mein urges departments to ensure timely implementation of CSS

: Arunachal Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein today called upon the state government departments to ensure timely and quality implementation of centrally sponsored schemes (CSS) in the state.
While reviewing the progress of CSS in the state, he asked the heads of the executing agencies to improve the performance of CSS saying that the plan size for the next year would depend on the performance of this year, an official report informed.
He urged them to submit the utilization certificates at the earliest as the release of next instalment would be based on the furnished UC of the penultimate instalment.

The deputy chief minister asked the commissioners, secretaries and senior officers present in the meeting to come forward with new ideas and expertise and to suggest innovative, developmental and result oriented projects that can be incorporated in policy making.
He also suggested that instead of providing fund in fish meals, the departments must adopt large scale projects in agriculture and allied sectors such as horticulture, veterinary, fishery as model projects.
Mein said that the districts located in the foot hills area of the state have huge irrigation potentials and good productivity of various agriculture and horticulture crops.

"Such districts should be selected and developed as model projects and if found successful, it can be replicated in other districts too in phased manner," the deputy chief minister said and suggested to outsource the defunct fishery farms of the department to the unemployed youths, so that it could be utilised.

Mein cited the examples of Gujarat how its' government with proper plan, policies and implementation had developed the state into one of the agriculturally advanced state of the country.
Planning Parliamentary Secretary Zingnu Namchoom also participated in the review meeting.
Planning Secretary Joram Beda updated the latest positions on the performance and submission of UCs by various departments through power point presentation.
He informed that the NITI Aayog had rationalized the existing 66 CSS into 28 umbrella schemes and out of which, six schemes have been categorized as the Core of the Core schemes, 20 schemes as Core Schemes and remaining two as Optional schemes.

"Core Schemes will have compulsory participation by the state whereas participation amongst the Optional Schemes will be by choice," he informed.
Commissioners, secretaries and directors of various departments highlighted the progress of various CSS through power point presentations in the meeting, the report added.