Sikkim CM Chamling inaugurated Block Administrative Centre

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Pakyong,Nov14 : Chief Minister Dr. Pawan Chamling on Friday, November 13, inaugurated Block Administrative Centre at Parakha, 13 kilometers from Pakyong. Minister RMDD Mr. CB Karki, Area MLA Mr. Laxuman Lepcha, Minister of Forest and Tourism Mr. Bhim Dhungel, Minister of Commerce & Industries Miss Neeru Sewa, Vice Chairman State Planning Commission Mr. Sanchaman Limboo, SDF party workers, zilla panchayats, gram panchayats, sub-divisional officers and large number of local people were present at the inauguration ceremony.
Chief Minister in his address urged the people of the area to take benefits of the BAC Office. He said, “The present SDF government believes in decentralization of power to the rural areas and it is one of the measures through which rural people may do their official work in their villages without any expense of time and money.” He said, the SDF government is making every effort to make all the poor people of Sikkim prosperous,
master, and producers for which the government has given many benefits and schemes but still the rural people in villages are poor due to the habits of taking benefits from the government for granted.
He urged the people “to think positive and work in unity” to make Sikkim progressive and peaceful. He said the present government wants to make the people of Sikkim skillful and hardworking like the people of China and Japan. In order to upgrade all the villages of Sikkim and the economic standard of its peoples he urged them to come forward with planning to work in dairy, horticulture, agriculture etc. The government will help them by providing the resources and technical advices, he assured.
He also announced opening Livelihood School in all the 32 constituencies of Sikkim for the dropouts, educated unemployed people which is first of its kind in the whole
Country. He said the world is facing unemployment and all cannot get government jobs but the present government is determined to create opportunities for the unemployed through which they can earn more than the employed people. He reminded the people about the Chief Minister’s Scholarship for the best of the rural students to study in best schools of the country and outside the country and urged the students to take benefits from it.
RMD Minister Mr. Karki, area MLA Mr. Lepcha and Secretary RMDD Mr. Anil Ganeriwal also addressed the people.
The Block Administrative Centre at Parakha is built at a cost of Rs.1.28 crore by the contractor Mr. Palden Thendup Bhutia of Development area Gangtok. The BAC Pakyong will be shifted to Parakha and will be operative within this month, informed the Block Development Officer, Pakyong, Mr. Shyam Pradhan. Before inaugurating the BAC Parakha, Chief Minister inaugurated a “Maney” of late Pathing Phulzong Rinpoche at Machong monastery.

Passingdang Stakeholders to approach various departmental heads

GANGTOK, August 8: The block development authorities of Passingdang in Dzongu, North Sikkim have decided to take strong measures against the truant officials of line departments by approaching the heads of the concerned departments.
The decision was taken during a coordination meeting of the local authorities of Passingdang block held at the conference hall of Passingdang conference hall on August 7.
The coordination meeting had been chaired by SCMU Ltd (Mangan) chairman Choden Lepcha and presided by Passingdang BDO Jigmee Dorjee. Local gram Panchayat presidents, secretaries and ward Panchayats of all GPUs under Passingdang BAC, Dzongu and Panchayat inspector KT Lama attended the meeting, informs a press note.
The press release informs that the meeting took a serious note of various complaints from the general public regarding the absence of line department officers and junior engineers, who incidentally, were absent during the meeting itself.
It was suggested that the concerned heads of departments at Gangtok would have to be approached in order to streamline and direct these officers to make judicious use of their posts and various infrastructure provided by the government at Passingdang BAC. The resolution to approach the higher authorities was passed in the meeting.
The meeting also decided that the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) initiated by the government since 1999 will be given a vigorous continuity in all the GPUs of Passingdang with special emphasis on hygiene and anti-defecation policies.
A block level developmental committee cum planning committee was formed with the area MLA as chairman and Choden Lepcha as vice-chariman. The members of the committee include all gram Panchayat presidents, secretaries, line departmental officials, headmasters and principals.
The Passingdang BDO is the member secretary of this committee.
During the meeting, the gram Panchayats were asked to maintain a register at the gram Panchayat level to keep a record of all the demand letters of the public including NREGA works and other schemes in order to facilitate planning and acceptance in future.
It was also decided to approach the managing director, State Bank of Sikkim for providing a bank counter at the BAC itself to facilitate the public for payment of power bills, get bank receipts for various certificates and for operation of NREGA accounts and of job card holders.
The meeting further decided that minimum user charge would be levied by all gram Panchayats for minor repairs of rural infrastructure in their respective GPUs with the proceeds going into the Panchayat development fund.
The meeting concluded with the chairman suggesting that such coordination meetings should be monthly for review as well as carrying out impending works and take in new ideas and suggestions.