Minister Satish Jarkiholi instructs to complete development works within time frame
Belagavi: The
Belagavi district
minister
Satish Jarkiholi
chaired a
Karnataka Development Programme
(KDP) meeting at the Central Hall of the Suvarna Vidhana Soudha (SVS) on Tuesday. SR Patil (Badagi), vice-president of Karnataka Guarantee Schemes Implementation Authority, and MLAs of the district attended the meeting.The KDP meeting focused on various issues of the district, including basic infrastructure, education, health, housing, and social welfare schemes.
Speaking at the meeting, minister Satish Jarkiholi instructed the officials to identify the problematic villages and ensure that there are no problems in the drinking water supply due to the intense summer. All the works undertaken under the
National Jal Jeevan Mission
, the multi-village drinking water project, should be completed as soon as possible, he instructed.It was decided to build a cancer hospital sanctioned for the district in Belagavi city on BIMS campus.
A site will be identified for this, he said. Action is being taken to fill skilled doctors and staff in the district's super specialty hospital. This was also brought to the attention of the chief minister. The govt is giving great importance to education and health sectors.
Discussions will be held with the district MLAs to eliminate the shortage of doctors in the hospitals built in the district.He instructed the deputy commissioner to take action against a Slum Development Corporation officer who did not provide information and did not attend the meeting. He instructed the officials of the education department to work well from the grassroots level and think seriously about improving the SSLC results.Bailhongal MLA Mahantesh Koujalagi, who raised various issues in the meeting, said that a proposal was prepared to undertake works under the MLA's constituency area development grant. However, due to the very slow work at the official level, there are technical problems for the use of the grant. Therefore, MLAs should complete the works for which the grant is released within the time frame, he demanded.Belagavi North assembly constituency MLA Asif (Raju) Sait said that the three-wheelers for the disabled should be distributed within the respective financial lines. BIMS director Dr Ashokkumar Shetty said that efforts are being made to fill the skilled specialist doctors and staff as soon as possible.Raibag MLA Duryodhan Aihole, legislative Council member Nagaraj Yadav, MLA Ganesh Hukkeri, Kittur MLA Babasaheb Patil, deputy commissioner Mohammad Roshan, ZP CEO Rahul Shinde, MLA Vishwas Vaidya, Vinay Navalagatti, police commissioner Iada Martin Marbaniang, and superintendent of police Dr Bhimashankar Guled were present.Roopa Patil, a student from Devalapura village in Bailhongal taluk, who secured first position in the state in the current year's SSLC results, and students from all taluks of the district who scored the highest marks were felicitated. Students who excelled in last year's SSLC exams were given laptops.
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