Jitendra Singh urges Resident Commissioners of Northeast Region to be proactive

Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), Dr. Jitendra Singh on Tuesday urged the Delhi-based Resident Commissioners of states to play a proactive role in coordinating, liaisoning and expediting the various centrally supported development projects and centrally sponsored schemes in their respective states.

Addressing a joint meeting of senior officers of DoNER Ministry and Resident Commissioners from eight North Eastern States here today, Dr. Singh said, most of the Resident Commissioners are senior officers with a long administrative experience and therefore, they can play a valuable supplementary role in bridging several missing links between the States and the Centre.

He added that there is a common complaint about delay in several of the projects under DoNER Ministry and one of the commonly cited reasons is delay in submission of Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) with consequent rise in the budget cost and similarly, delay in acquisition or transfer of land for new projects.

In all such situations, the office of Resident Commissioner of the respective states can help in getting the file work expedited through intervention both at the State as well as the Central level, said Dr. Singh.

During the meeting major projects from each of the eight North Eastern States were discussed one by one and status report on each was also sought.

The meeting was attended by the Resident Commissioners and officers from all the eight North Eastern States of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura.